Organic Silk

BLUEZONE's denim trends bring back memories of 90s parties

The next denim season stands for optimism and 90s nostalgia

BLUEZONE #1

31. January 2022

Although MUNICH FABRIC START and BLUEZONE couldn’t be realised physically in the end of January, we want to give our beloved exhibitors and long-term partners the chance to present their collections for Spring.Summer 23 online. We are presenting the most inspiring developments, prints and innovations in all our areas: FABRICS, ADDITIONALS, BLUEZONE, DESIGN STUDIOS, SOURCING & KEYHOUSE.

It’s the memories of parties in the 90s, vibrancy, lightheartedness and optimism that make these BLUEZONE collections so special: The denim experts BOSSA, Close to Clothes, Realteks, Sharabati Denim and Tonello rely on the latest washes and the most modern finish paired with retro vibes.

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BOSSA

This season Bossa divided the collection in 3 concepts. The first theme is 90’s Nostalgia – the rebirth of street style cool again. The second theme is Future Healing – a new era of protection for the fast-developing new world. The third theme is Nomad Tourist – a color palette of neutrals inspired by exotic destinations with desert landscapes. All breathable fibers like hemp, flex or linen that compose the perfect suitcase of a nomadic soul.

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Close to Clothes SAS

With the core values creativity and innovation in mind, Close to Clothes try to renew themselves every year with new collections. This year, the goal is to base the collection on a more environmentally friendly approach with eco-friendly products, while keeping the designs trendy.

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Realteks

Realteks’ motto “Lets MINIMIZE while MAXIMIZING” includes its MINIMAL BLUE CONCEPT with increasing ENERGY AND STRETCHABILITY. It’s all about caring for the people and their lives, increasing values and flexibility: reducing the chemicals while creating new methods and saving energy while breathing more in this great blue space. Denim stands for FREEDOM – because humans are free souls and deserve MORE.

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Sharabati Denim

Sharabati Denim’s Spring.Summer 23 collection brings optimism, hope and joy. Everyone wants to leave behind the days spent at home, full of uncertainty and anxiety, and look into the future with hope. Sharabati Denim therefore designed 4 new concepts to support this idea: Old is New – 70’s & 80’s look; Smooth Operator – soft, comfortable and loose fabrics; Sweat Escape – fabrics that will change your mood; Green Screen – a summary of the Sustainability Vision.

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Tonello

The Laundry (R)evolution is Tonello’s concept in the finishing process. Waste avoidance and resource optimisation are the goals of the company’s refinement cycle. In the finishing process, a laser is used to replace manual abrasion, as well as an all-in-one system that carries out all washing processes by integrating four sustainable technologies. Finally, Tonello uses the Metro software, which processes data in real time to check consumption during the washing process, optimise times and improve performance.

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by Chantal Graeff

Spring.Summer 23 FABRICS are bold, colourful and environmentally friendly

Bold colours, modernity and environmentally friendly production fit together perfectly

FABRICS Spring.Summer 23 #2

20. January 2022

Although MUNICH FABRIC START and BLUEZONE in the end of January can’t be realised anymore, we want to give our beloved exhibitors and long-term partners the chance to present their collections for Spring.Summer 23 online. We are going to present some of the most inspiring developments, prints and innovations in all our areas: FABRICS, ADDITIONALS, BLUEZONE, DESIGN STUDIOS, SOURCING & KEYHOUSE.

The fabric developments of the following five international textile producers confirm: bold colours, modern technologies and environmentally friendly production fit together perfectly! Let’s get convinced:

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Barth & Köhnenkamp Seiden

For Spring.Summer 23, Barth & Könenkamp’s focus is on sustainability. To become more environmentally and socially responsible, the silk specialist is currently in the process of getting GOTS certified. Furthermore, a variety of vegan silk has been included into the product range. With bright and vivid spring and summer colors, feelings of confidence and hope for the future are expressed.

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ROTA TEKSTIL

With cupro, lyocell, Tencel and cotton developments, the SS23 collection of Rota Tekstil is focusing on sustainability, caring to meet the demands of the market. All new material developments are created in accordance with the latest pantone colors.

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Segovin Tekstil

Since its establishment, Segovin Tekstil has been producing dyed, yarn dyed and printed woven fabrics for major manufacturers and international brands. The manufacturer is aware of the importance of sustainability for our world and offers tencel, lyocell, Ecovero viscose, organic cotton and recyclable polyester to create the collection with certificates from Lenzing, GOTS, GRS, OEKO-TEX and BCI.

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Takisada - Nagoya Co., Ltd.

Takisada-Nagoya’s Spring.Summer 23 collection is based on the feeling of the TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020, which reminded of what we have forgotten for so long: Excitement, uplifting, deep emotions for sportsmanship, tears for the victory/lost, friendship, merriment, the importance of nourishment for our souls. Now we are ready to enjoy. Unity. The things around us are all united: nature, technology, and soul (fashion).

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Wegal & Tricotel S.p.a.

Wegal & Tricotel offers a huge selection of fabrics in a wide color choice suitable for different end-uses, ranging from swimwear and sportswear to athleisure, underwear and dance. Further proposals count on warp-knitted fabrics both in PA and PES with EA in different weights. Textured fabrics, such as some of the bestselling qualities New Panarea (comfortable with shantung effect with soft hand touch) and Chia (striped effect) meet various demands as well as bonded fabrics, special effects obtained with foil, PVC applications, calendaring and sustainable fabrics as Eco PLX produced with recycled PES and EA.

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by Chantal Graeff

Natural fabrics like linen and hemp determine the Spring.Summer 23 FABRICS

Spring.Summer 23 textile developments are all about linen, hemp and natural fibers

FABRICS Spring.Summer 23 #1

11. January 2022

Although MUNICH FABRIC START and BLUEZONE in the end of January can’t be realised anymore, we want to give our beloved exhibitors and long-term partners the chance to present their collections for Spring.Summer 23 online. We are going to present some of the most inspiring developments, prints and innovations in all our areas: FABRICS, ADDITIONALS, BLUEZONE, DESIGN STUDIOS, SOURCING & KEYHOUSE.

And now: Curtain up for the organic FABRICS that determine the next season: Hemp, linen, bio cotton blends, natural jerseys…

Ege Organics by Manifutura

Ege Organics: Choose hemp. Choose durability.

Choose not using pesticides to grew your plant. Choose higher yield and fewer water consumption per acre compared to other fibers. Choose the fiber that blends perfectly with cotton for fabric strength and durability. Choose enriching the soil that grows the fiber. Choose hemp grown by trustworthy farmers in Western Turkey. And choose the hemp blends Ege Organics have precisely developed based on 30 years of experience in the industry.

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Lanificio Bottoli – Ronzani Agency

The fashion trends for the Spring.Summer 23 season are 3D fabrics, transparencies, light and delicate tones, and sustainability. The novelty of this season is a natural jute/silk fabric that is vegetably dyed with a process reusing coffee grounds. This chemical-free dye provides the natural fibres with fascinating vintage shades and enables the recycling of a resource that restaurants and bars normally waste.

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Philea Textiles

NATURAL, SPORTY & SILKY: Three key words of the PHILEA Spring.Summer 23 collection. A large part of the collection is dedicated to premium quality linen or linen blends (Tencel, viscose, cotton) that are both comfortable and cool. The company also offers easy wear and easy care cotton/polyamid mixes for a sporty and contemporary look. Besides, fluid satin and crepe in viscose or viscose/acetate as well as FSC/ECOVERO viscose make a look feel fresh. The collection, entirely designed and produced in France, guarantees a fully traceable and environmentally friendly supply chain.

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Sundag Heinrich – SUNDAGTEX

For Spring.Summer 23, the natural jersey range of SUNDAGTEX includes qualities made of linen, hemp, kapok and blends from linen, hemp, nettle with cotton. Designs show structure as well as right-left effects. Coarse count yarns and open meshed patterns are newly added articles.

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Tessitura Monti

The new Spring.Summer 23 collections from Tessitura Monti are characterised by typical colors of the summer season with fashionable and funny shadows. In Blu Label, a main focus is given to sustainable fabrics with organic yarn, Tencel and linen. Also important are Ajour, Leno Waves, Jacquard and Fil Coupé fabrics. In Sictess, the references are three: organic, linen and prestige.

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by Chantal Graeff

Cocccon Wins German Sustainability Award

COCCCON WINS GERMAN SUSTAINABILITY AWARD FOR DESIGN

11. December 2020
Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis. Foto: Dariusz Misztal

The German Sustainability Award (DNP) is the national award for top performance in the field of sustainability. The 2021 awards ceremony was held on 3 December 2020, as a hybrid event in which the finalists and the majority of the jury members were connected via live video. With nine competition categories it is the largest prize of its kind in Europe. A jury of experts selected 37 winners from 104 finalists in the new Design category which has been introduced in direct support of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Competing companies from the fashion and textile industry offered up a variety of sustainable solutions from recycled fashion to interiors and material development, resource-saving packaging solutions to furniture made from new materials and revolutionary waste reduction systems.

Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis, picturing Chandra Prakash, Cocccon. Photo Credit: Christian_Koester

Among the winners were Cocccon, founded in 2012 by Indian designer Chanda Prakash. Recognised for pioneering “Fashion for Biodiversity” and producers of the bio-certified Peace Silk – a non-violent silk, the production of which only allows the silk threads to be extracted from the cocoons when the butterflies have already safely hatched.

“Our need to be fashionable endangers the earth’s biodiversity.

The increase in mass production has become threatening and is one of the main causes of the destruction of our ecosystems. It has also led to more frequent unexpected environmental disasters and resulting climate changes in textile producing regions.”

Cocccon designs & manufactures its textiles with the motto of creativity can care, caring for life and nature.

“We make sure that our designs do not adversely impact the environment. We converted a conventional silk farm into an organic one and processing is done in a new ecofriendly way.

This system requires less water, zero chemicals and zero emission. This has resulted in healing and revival of local biodiversity including microbes in the soil. This confirms fashion and destruction of ecology & biodiversity are not synonymous to on another. It is all about making responsible textiles for the next generations. We call this Fashion for Biodiversity.“
Chandra Prakash, Founder and Designer, Cocccon

All award winners receive a seal which is intended to help consumers determine which products and services they can consume with a clear conscience. Providing increased support for Cocccon as they continue to grow as the world’s largest producer of organic silk.

Cocccon also won second place at the 2018 HighTex Awards in Munich Fabric Start’s KEYHOUSE. This was the first time the innovation award recognised companies for their overall strategic commitment to resource saving production processes as well as innovative product development.

Cocccon were highly commended for their conscious production of luxury textiles and an innovative silk denim. The award winning GOTS-certified organic silk denim is biodegradable, with an anti-allergic finish as standard, the fabric is also handwoven and dyed using non-toxic chemicals. Prakash’s showcased the award winning Peace Silk as well as PET2Silk for the first time in Munich, which fabric shares similar qualities to silk but made of recycled PET bottles.

Prakash speaking about winning 2nd place in the 2018 HighTex Awards:

“The award is hugely important to us because it confirms our product philosophy and gives us a platform to spread the message further. We have been the world’s largest producer of organic silk for two years which constantly motivates when it comes to designing new products. The HighTex jury commended the denim-like silk shirt that requires only a fraction of water compared to conventional denim production without chemical additives.”

Chandra Prakash, Cocccon

Cocccon win second place at the Keyhouse, 2018 HighTex Awards
S. Angel, F. Junker, C. Prakash, A. Vogt, S. Klinder.

OPENING TIMES

2. MARCH 2021 · 9:30 – 18:30
3. MARCH 2021 · 9:30 – 18:30
4. MARCH 2021 · 9:30 – 16:00

LOCATION

MOC Munich | Halls 1 – 4 Groundfloor
Lilienthalallee 40
Germany, 80939, Munich

by Alison Baxter