Preview in Seoul shows functional & eco friendly textiles

On September 4, Anticipated Material Companies' New Material Development Trend Presentation was held with four companies: Seong Min Industries, Seo Jin Textile, Shin Han Industries, and Shin Poong Textiles. This announced the start of the exhibition with introduction and quality evaluation event of added textiles developed considering 2014's trend.

On September 5, a seminar was held to share the information on the trend of material development with advanced textile technology and introduce the production process direction was offered with the most recent textile technology development trend. In the same location during the afternoon, the information-sharing forum for R&D Win-Win Cooperation among major and SM companies and ICT industry was held.

In a symposium inviting fashion professional groups, PFIN offered 2014's SS Creative Trend Seminar to suggest the overall design directions for colors and fabrics in 2014's SS, while Fashion in Trend opened the five strategies to lead the outdoor fashion market with the agenda, the Challenge of Outdoor Fashion Companies.

Increase of Large Scaled Buying Office and Newly Participating Buyers

Not only luxury brands from the US and Europe, but giant fashion groups, general import & export companies, garment makers and other important buyers from Japan, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong visited.

LA located large fashion groups traded with various Korean companies to increase their purchasing volume by visiting PIS. In addition, New York located companies visited PIS to add business or to develop alternative possibilities.

Studio Paglaiai visited PIS to import Korean high quality fashion material to the mid to high pricing market in Italy. Kusilas showed a great deal of interest in eco-friendly materials and embroideries.

Material sourcing staffs at TORY BURCH Hong Kong Limited, Ralph Lauren Asia Pacific Ltd, Club Monaco US, LLC, and Coach in Hong Kong showed their willingness to purchase Korean materials.

Hengyuan (Group) from China visited to research the quality and the design competitiveness of Korean materials to launch its woman's wear brand. Fazeya Group actively discussed with Korean material companies according to the policy to use Korean materials for their renewal plan of 200 or more shops.

Korea Federation of Textile Industry