TRADE SHOWS
Venue Changes and Growth at Las Vegas Fashion Week
By Kelli Freeman, Contributing Writer | March 6, 2026
The February edition of Las Vegas Fashion Week not only featured everything from denim trends to runway shows but also served up massages, martinis, bracelet giveaways, beauty treatments, networking and education. The expanded footprint had something for everyone at the Las Vegas Convention Center, The Expo at World Market Center and more..
True Blue
New York’s denim trade show focuses on the cream of the crop ...
January Sizzles at L.A. Fashion Market
Buyers stock up on Immediate-delivery merchandise, as well as goods for later deliveries...
Gift Shift to L.A. Mart
Several gift-industry showrooms are relocating in Los Angeles from the California Market Center to the L.A. Mart....
New Look Planned for Sourcing at MAGIC
Woodland Hills, Calif.–based trade show producer MAGIC International is revamping the Sourcing at MAGIC section in time for the Feb. 21–24 run of the MAGIC Marketplace in Las ...
Action Sports Trade Shows Kick It Up a Notch
In January, action sports retailers and vendors will notice some changes at the Action Sports Retailer (ASR) and Agenda trade shows, as the shows attempt to court both indep...
Project Moves to Javits, Launches Seed
New York–based contemporary menswear show Project Global Trade Show will move to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York for its next show Jan. 16–18. The s...
CMC Sets Textile-Show Dates
The California Market Center has set its show dates for the next run of the Los Angeles International Textile Show....
Svoboda's Plus-Size Road Show
Plus-size apparel designer Jessica Svoboda is taking her show on the road with a new series of “traveling boutiques,” starting with a Dec. 2–4 stop in New York....
February Swim Show Cancelled
The Swimwear Association of Florida has cancelled its February Spring/Summer Miami Swim Show, originally scheduled for Feb. 5–7 in Miami. One of the smaller swim trade shows, Swim Show was cancelle...
MAGIC Adds Bling to WWDMAGIC
MAGIC International will expand its jewelry resources in February with the addition of MODEUROPE, a new fashion jewelry show featuring product from Europe. “This will be the first ti...
The Seminar Circuit
The Doneger Group has been around so long—just about 60 years—you figure there isn’t a lot the company hasn’t seen. Once a buying office, The Doneger Group has morphed way beyond its origins to become one of the premier fashion forecasting...
ASR Announces Holiday Show
Action Sports Retailer Trade Expo plans to put a surf-and-skate twist on the Holiday season....
Show and Tell
From the smallest first-time exhibitor in a 10-by-5-foot space to the organizer of a mega-show, trade show exhibitors and those who put on the shows share one goal: strong sales....
Doneger Group's Trend-spotting 2007
David Wolfe: “The most exciting and challenging movement is from maximalism to minimalism. Simpler silhouettes; bigger, more interesting shapes tailored to make them interesting; less embellishment. We...
Getting in Ship-Shape
For heavy apparel industry machinery, no domestic apparel trade show can top SPESA Expo. Held in Miami every three years (in rotation with Germany’s IMB and Japan’s JIAN), SPESA Expo b...
