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Fashion and textile fairs in Lithuania and Latvia joined together

BC, Riga, 14.10.2014.Print version
Organizers of fashion and textile fairs in Lithuania and Latvia joined their potential and took a big step together towards boosting the importance of the Baltic region as a business center for apparel and textile industry in Eastern and Central Europe, reports trade fair “Baltic Fashion & Textile Vilnius 2014”.

Having united under one trademark “Baltic Fashion & Textile”, the organizers of the Lithuanian and Latvian apparel, textile and innovations trade fairs organize “Baltic Fashion & Textile” fairs twice a year – during springtime in Riga (Latvia) and in autumn in Vilnius (Lithuania). Such a new concept of cooperation offers an excellent opportunity to enter the Baltic fashion and textile market with the population exceeding 6.5 million as well as to develop into a real to a business forum, setting fashion trends in the Baltic region.

 

This year “Baltic Fashion & Textile Vilnius 2014” trade fair takes place on October 16-18th, in the Exhibition and Congress Center LITEXPO (Laisves ave. 5, Vilnius). Over 230 participants representing 22 countries in the world, presenting their products and services are expected to take part at this year trade fair. Alongside with the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian apparel, textile and leather manufacturers there also will be participants from other EU and world countries – Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, presenting their raw materials and other products for textile and apparel industry.

 

This year in trade fair “Baltic Fashion & Textile Vilnius 2014” participants can witness a unique event –“Vilnius Fashion Conference”. World scale speakers from Germany, Great Britain and France will review the newest fashion trends and share their insights.

 

“Through optimizing our life and work, we try to become more and more efficient though our physical and mental potentiality is not unlimited. The on-going digital revolution challenges our sense of time, our understanding of time. In what different time frames and speed do we live in? With this digital revolution, do we experience a new higher speeds era? Or does it changes our sense of time?” – these questions raises Mr. Niels Holger Wien, one of the speakers’ of the conference, analyst of fashion, color and trend at German Fashion Institute.

 

This year “Baltic Fashion & Textile Vilnius 2014” offers a number of seminars, business meetings and partnership events. “The fact that within this trade fair there also will be held meetings with the representatives of the Ukrainian, Belarussian and Russian companies of apparel and textile industry reaffirms the importance of Lithuania’s and other Baltic states’ apparel and textile industry as a kind of a bridge for textile and fashion business between West and East even during this rather tense period in the region, – said Mr. Aurimas Palevičius, President of the Lithuanian Apparel and Textile Industry Association.






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