İTHİB President Ahmet Öksüz said, “This competition, where design and innovative ideas will be enforced, is of great importance for the Turkish textile industry to reach the top three in the world league. While putting fronts their talents, enthusiasm, courage and creativity, we will increase the added value we create for all our stakeholders and reinforce our strong position in the world.”
The International Fabric Design Contest, which has been held by İTHİB for 15 years, will be held for the first time this year under the brand of 'Futuretex Istanbul', and with two separate competitions named as 'FutureBase International' and 'FutureTech'. In the award-winning design competition where talents in the textile industry will compete; designer Tuvana Büyükçınar will be the competition coach at FutureBase, and the Özlem Süer will be the designer at FutureTech.
Global Growth Will Come With Design and Innovation
İTHİB President Ahmet Öksüz stated that they aim to create added value in the Turkish economy with products owning high design power thanks to Futuretex Istanbul Competition, “It is of great importance to raise the bar for our design power in Turkey to a higher level for our sector, which is the world's 5th largest textile exporter, to get a bigger share from global exports. We aim to increase our innovation capability in the technical textile sector in the 'FutureTech' category, which will be held within the scope of our competition. A technical textile is one of our most important sub-product groups to achieve the goal of increasing value-added exports of the Turkish textile industry. In this context, we attach great importance to our competition where innovative ideas will be taken into assessment and brought into production. We see design as one of the key elements of value-added exports. To say so, we support our qualified young talents who will work in the field of design. In this context, our fabric design competition, which we will hold under the FutureBase International brand this year, will inspire hundreds of designers.”
Innovative Projects Will Be Produced in the Field of Technical Textiles
İTHİB Vice President Fatih Bilici stated that the FutureTech category was taken into exhibits for the first time this year while bringing technical textiles to its focus and said, “The FutureTech category is actually an innovation and idea competition. With FutureTech, we aim to support innovative ideas and projects in the technical textile industry. While the FutureBase International competition mainly concerns students in the field of fashion design, on the other hand, FutureTech mostly deals with textile engineering students, academics, industrial design departments and startups. As İTHİB, we are happy to bringing together two different categories, which are important for our industry, under one roof. With our new competition, our goal will be to win our new designers for our industry, and to bring innovative ideas into production, just like every year.”
