TEXTILES
Textile Shows Draw Quality-Minded Attendees for SS2025
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | March 8, 2024
Downtown Los Angeles’ textile-event roster is expanding from the more-than-30-year veteran LA Textile at the California Market Center to additional productions—The Textile Show at the Cooper Design Space, The Fabric Show Los Angeles at The New Mart and A Fabric Affair.
TEXTILE TRENDS
Think Pink Smartlink
The new shade of pink takes its inspiration from digital worlds. It’s a subtle hue referred to as “transcendent,” bridging genders and realities as opposed to bright ’80s pinks that shocked us into submission. That doesn’t mean it can’t find its way into traditional motifs, however, so look for it in florals and other classic patterns but with a hi-tech touch.
Green Thumb
If pink signifies the floral outpouring of springtime, then green symbolizes the earth from which it all comes. And while pink and green may be the quintessential preppy combination, like the ethereal pinks, these greens belong to the garden, but the garden of the digital imagination as much as Mother Earth.
Eternal Flame
Hitting on three of the four elements—airy sunsets, flowers of the earth, and shimmering waters—now it’s time for the fourth: fire. This trend’s reds and oranges stand for energy and health, particularly the self-care needed for the times, which require dynamic nimbleness. This group will have you ready for anything.
The Life Aquatic
Sunsets light up the air and sky, and flowers bloom on the earth, but aqua comes from the sea, as its very name suggests. This color category serves as a bridge between the oceanic and the synthetic digital underworld where artists create imaginary worlds. Think of it as pastel meets pixels.
Mellow Yellow
This category—named after another classic rock song—represents optimism, warmth and the splendors of nature, specifically the sunflower. In the context of the present moment, this group of floral yellows, as opposed to acidic or metallic, speaks loud and clear to our burgeoning eco-consciousness and that sustainability ultimately means nature’s beauty and bounty.
Purple Haze
Purple has always been a regal color, but there’s another side to this rich color category. Violet has the highest vibration in the color spectrum, dispersed by light, and as a result has always been considered a spiritual shade. This trend combines sunset shades of blue and violet with dynamic patterns drawn from our high-tech times.
NEWS
Fashion Snoops: Denim’s Craft Revival
For decades, crafted denim was a topic for a niche audience of denim connoisseurs—inside knowledge that felt foreign to the average consumer. Today, an increasing awareness of sustainability and rising consumer interest in heritage and tradition are influencing a denim renaissance that honors the process of creation, putting the focus on the journey of design itself as much as the end result.
Attention-Grabbing Textiles to Stand Out This Season
Fashion is continuing to create garments in alluring fabrics that ensure style mavens will make large statements without saying a word.
Industry Focus: Denim - Denim Experts Weigh In on Design, Responsible Manufacturing, Vintage
As fashion embraces vintage-jean styles and the resale segment booms, are there any elements of classic denim making that you still love and can align with the modern need for responsible manufacturing?
Thermore Launches New Material Using Hybrid Technology
Milan-based Thermore has announced the launch of EVOdown Recycled, a new material made of 100 percent recycled fibers from PET bottles.
Carved in Blue Checks In With Its Community Two Years Into COVID
Carved in Blue®, a denim community blog by the TENCEL™ denim team from Lenzing, collected community thoughts about COVID-19 and the indelible changes it has made. The resulting Blue Lenz video series “Headspace” allowed the team to connect over a shared experience happening many miles apart.
Textile Trends: Summer Fabrics Beckon With a Lust for Life
It’s the most wonderful time of the year when the fashionable crowd prepares to emerge from a wintry cocoon of cozy pieces in rich textures and deep colors by taking stock of trends that are meant to be seen during the summer season. This season’s styles afford a great deal of optimism in addition to inviting designs that speak to the joie de vivre that this warmer time of year promotes.
Industry Focus: Denim—What advancements and innovations within denim make you hopeful for the future of the industry, and how will these contributions create progress in the category?
Textile Trends
Pantone Releases the Fashion Home + Interiors Paper Traveler
Pantone has announced the release of the latest edition of the Pantone Fashion Home + Interiors Paper Traveler, which aims to help provide a better experience for teams and designers and allows them to work and create from anywhere.
Textiles Tick Toward Fresh Takes on Tradition for 2022
As a new year begins, the fashion industry seeks a fresh start to move forward and create alluring styles. At the foundation of these design ambitions is the choice of the appropriate textiles to elevate garments and attract customers.
Hyosung’s Fashion Design Center Introduces A/W ’22/’23 Textile Trends
The Fashion Design Center, an interactive fashion studio established by textile-solutions provider Hyosung, has released its new Autumn/Winter 2022/2023 textile trends, giving a sneak peek into what major brands will be using in their collections.
Fashion for Good Cooperative Launched by Ecovative With PVH, Bestseller
Mycelium-technology company Ecovative has announced the launch of its Fashion for Good international sustainable-fashion cooperative, as Bestseller and PVH Corp. joined as founding members.
Pantone Creates New Color for COTY 2022
Inspired by creativity and the spirit of invention, Pantone 17-3938 Very Peri has been announced as the color authority’s Color of the Year 2022, with the tone resembling a periwinkle blue that features a violet-red undertone.
Unifi Announces Achievement of Sustainability Goal Ahead of Target
As 2022 approaches, many people are considering the resolutions they will make ahead of the new year, but for fiber innovator Unifi, Inc., a major milestone that was originally planned as a 2022 target has already been achieved.
Material Exchange Acquires Olah Inc. Agency
Material Exchange, the fast-growing international virtual marketplace, announced it has acquired the agency division of Olah Inc., a New York–based firm focused on the denim and sportswear industries.
FABSCRAP Expansion Includes Opening of Philadelphia Location
Following the May announcement of its partnerships with URBN and Nordstrom, which afforded it extensive funding, the textile recycling and reuse nonprofit FABSCRAP has opened a location in Philadelphia. In addition to bringing the group’s services to Philadelphia, FABSCRAP’s new location will allow the New York City–headquartered nonprofit to serve the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, including Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Md.; and Southern New Jersey.