Here’s Your List of Fashion Trade Shows 2025
Two separate lists for both sourcing your materials and exhibiting your brand to buyers.
It’s a new year and you might be thinking about fashion trade show participation. Here is your list of 2025 fashion trade shows to check out:
Fashion Trade Shows- Sourcing
Source fabrics and trims, attend business seminars, meet factories, sample makers, printers, and all kinds of production-focused industry folks. These are shows you attend for free.
The Fabric Shows: New York/ Los Angeles/ Miami / Atlanta. Offers a fabric and trimmings exhibit for designers, manufacturers, retailers, and more. The expo features American & European mills, converters, and importers. In 2025, the shows are scheduled for January through April. So check out their website.
Texworld: Texworld is North America’s largest sourcing event for designers, fabric buyers, and merchandisers consisting of products ranging across the entire spectrum of fabrics. New York: July 23 - 25, Los Angeles : July 29 - 31.
Sourcing at Magic: Sourcing at Magic is a fashion-sourcing event where attendees have access to global resources and receive insight into trends and information regarding inventive technology and the industry. 2025 sessions are being held in Las Vegas, February 10- 12 and August 18- 20.
Kingpins: Kingpins offers a carefully selected list of vendors including denim and sportswear fabric from all over the world. New York: July 23-24, Amsterdam: April 16-17, China: May 22-23
Premiere Vision: This show brings together more than 100 exhibitors including experts in fabrics, leather, manufacturing, accessories, and more. New York and Paris, Twice a year. Check their website for updates.
L.A. Textile Show: This show is the fashion industry’s premier West Coast destination for textile, design, and production resources. Showcasing hundreds of international fabric collections and design services, the show is presented with the West Coast’s contemporary and lifestyle designers in mind. They also have a sourcing pavilion for finding factories and other production-related services. This show takes place February 25-27.
Textile Forum The Fashion Fabric Show London: Textile Forum has cemented itself as London’s premier sourcing event for luxury fashion fabrics. The show attracts fabric buyers from major fashion retailers and brands, established independent design businesses and start-ups, tailors, craft shops, seamstresses, and costumiers. This show takes place in London, March 12-13.
MUNICH FABRIC START: A dedicated trade show for members of the fashion industry, manufacturers, and suppliers. Each season large numbers of fashion professionals from across Europe head to Munich to research and source for their new collections. The next show is January 23rd-25th, 2024.
Functional Fabric Fair: This is a trade-exclusive event showcasing the latest trends in fabric development for the functional textile industry. July 21-23 in NYC. There are also upcoming shows in Portland and Munich.
International Sourcing Expo Australia: Australia’s premier international sourcing show for apparel, accessories, and textiles. This year’s event takes place June 17-19 in Sydney and November 18-20 in Melbourne.
Source Africa: Source Africa is the leading industry event of its kind that brings together suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, and buyers all under one roof and takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, July 8-10.
London Textile Fair: The London Textile Fair is the biggest textile fair in London and is described as “a well-organized and friendly show.” The next show takes place September 2-3
Pure London: Pure Origin London unites manufacturers and buyers in London’s busiest fashion trade hub. The next show takes place February 2-5.
Fashion Trade Shows- Selling
Get new wholesale accounts, attend networking events, meet fellow designers, press, boutique owners, and all kinds of sales and marketing-focused industry folks. These are shows you participate in for a cost.
For these shows you need to have your packet ready to share with buyers: your lookbook and wholesale line sheet especially.
Coterie: Coterie is the premier global event that connects women’s apparel, accessories, and footwear designers with the international “who’s who” of retailers. Coterie builds exclusive shopping experiences from the ground up so that brands and buyers can create synergies that fuel their businesses. This year’s shows are February 18-20 in NYC.
Curve Expo: We are the #1 B2B event for the intimate apparel industry and have shows in NY, LA, and Montreal twice a year! Our NY show is February 2-4 at the Javits Center, and the LA show is February 23-24 at the Westdrift in Manhattan Beach.
Designers and Agents: The Designers & Agents show identifies emerging talent and creates connections with designers and buyers. D&A features brands from around the world that are the influencers of the market. This year the event takes place in New York, February 16-17, and in Los Angeles, March 10-11.
Agenda: With a portfolio of over 1,000 brands, Agenda is the most diverse fashion trade show in the world. 2025 dates TBA.
Magic: The Magic tradeshow is focused on young contemporary apparel, footwear, and accessories. This show takes place in Miami January 8th-9th, Las Vegas February 10-11, New York February 18-20, and Nashville April 16-17.
TRANOÏ: This show is an artistic platform with a curated selection of international premium designers. In addition to fashion tradeshows, TRANOÏ also brings together artistic installations, designers’ exhibitions, catwalk shows, parties, and all sorts of events. The show comes to Paris February 6-9.
NY NOW: This show will showcase a broad spectrum of merchandise categories, including giftware, personal care, stationery, fashion accessories, and children’s products. This year NY Now is holding a winter show in New York, August 3-5.
Man / Woman Shows: The Man and Woman shows are dedicated to bringing together a select community of brands from around the world and offering brands an introduction to the right buyers. Man/Woman Paris takes place January24-26, and Man/Woman New York takes place January 28-30.
Who’s Next: Who’s Next is the leading international fashion trade show for women in Europe. The next show takes place March 7-10, in Paris.
Outdoor Retailer: Outdoor Retailer is North America’s largest trade show in the outdoor clothing industry and takes place in Salt Lake City on June 18-20.
Scoop: Scoop is a designer menswear trade show held in London February 9-11.
SwimShow: The world’s largest swim show takes place in Miami, May 31- June 2
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