CPM Moscow cheered by sixth record buyers attendance in a row
11 Mar '06
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Frank Hartman, the General Manager of the IGEDO said, “The economic upswing in Russia continues at the same pace and domestic demand keeps on rising. This trend is also felt by this country's fashion sector that is currently estimated at a volume of €13.5 billion.”
“Fashion plays an increasingly important role in Russia and in Moscow, in particular. Fashion is omnipresent in the streets of Moscow. International fashion at the highest level has become part and parcel of a newly discovered attitude to life. During CPM Moscow we felt once more very clearly how this exciting sense of new departures in economy met with the social AUFBRUCHSTIMMUNG of this thriving country at the exhibition halls,” he said.
At the German joint stand 91 firms showcased their numerous collections and brands on a total exhibition area of more than 2,700 m². Germany and Italy once again accounted for the two largest amongst the 11 national joint pavilions at CPM – Collection Premiere Moscow.
Major national participations also came from France, Spain, Great Britain, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Bulgaria, Denmark and Turkey. This means that the biggest and most important fashion nations for the Russian market were well represented at CPM Moscow.
Furthermore, CPM Moscow also becomes increasingly established as a forum for creative Russian designers – alongside those international brands. Both up-and-coming fashion talents and top-flight Russian designers such as Slava Zaitsev, Olga Romina, Olga Samoschenko and Viktor Anisimov used CPM Moscow as a platform to present their latest collections to the interested trade audience.