Istanbul Fashion Apparel Conference, which targets to bring together many local and foreign companies operating in fashion and apparel sectors, will be held on 8-10 May 2013. Istanbul Fashion Apparel Conference which has been held on a regular basis every year since 2008 is organised by Turkish Clothing Manufacturers Association and it is followed by famous brands and fashion designers known throughout the world. TCMA offers an opportunity to perform business associations to the domestic brands operating in textile and fashion sectors to enter the foreign markets and to increase their reputations in the domestic market. One of the most important objectives of the Association is to contribute to the 2023 targets. The conference to be held for the 6th time this year will be organised on 8-10 May in Shangri-La Bosphorus Otel. The conference having a a busy schedule from the opening night to the closing time with important guests and sessions will host the CEOs and Chairman of the Board of Directors of world famous brands. The participants also have the opportunity to interview B2B in the last day of the event.
World-Famous Names Come Together
This year, it was announced that Jonathan Akeroyd, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alexander McQueen, and Colin Mc Dowell, the famous fashion journalist and historian, would join the conference. together. Giuseppe Miroglio, owner of Italian Group Miroglio, and Angelo Mazzone, Technical Product Manager of Giorgio Armani will take place among key note speakers.‘Fashion and Trends' section will be organised with the participation of Carola Seybold, who is manager of EMEA Region of PANTONE which is determines the current fashion colors used by millions of worldwide companies, and Catriona MacNab, who is Creative Chairman of the Board of WGSN which is worldwide company determining fashion trends of the period. The Procurement session will be moderated by Esra Ercan Taşören, General Manager of Sprint Near East Manufacturing in Turkey; James Brown, Director of Sainsbury's Ready to Wear which is the biggest supermarket chain in England, and Adam Creasey, Managing Director of Procurement of Debenhams Global, will join to this session as speakers.
Kerem Alkin Will Be Moderator in Economy Session
In the presentation of Marsha Powell who is Turkey Cotton Council International Program Director ,there will be striking current informations about the use of cotton products in Turkey and all over the world. Prof. Dr. Kerem,Director of the Institute of Social Sciences in Istanbul Commerce University and Bloomberg HT Director of Economics, will be moderator during the Economy Session.In this session during which there will be different topics and speakers, Belkıs Alpergun , Member and General Manager of Coface Insurance Corporation Board of Directors, will be hosted. Maurits Teunissen, creative name of the New Generation Photo Studio, will introduce 'Style Shoots' device offered for sale with distributorship of Astaş-Juki in Turkey.
New Trends on Display
Istanbul Fashion Apparel Conference of the target audience consists of TCMA members, apparel industrialists, producers, designers, retailers, brands, domestic purchasing offices, Manufacturers and non-brand offices in Turkey. This year, during the conference, primarily, today's economic conditions will be evaluated, the situation for the textile and clothing sectors will be discussed in detail according to the current economic conditions and forecasts about future will be specified. Furthermore; the trends and the national and international professionals that shape the global markets and the fashion will be discussed in detail with experts' comments in the conference where the new trends are exhibited. It is envisaged that the powerful countries such as USA, Germany, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czech Republic, China, France, England, Spain, Italy, Japan, Russia will participate in the conference in which the subject the georgraphy of Turkey has an important fashion, manufacturing and distribution center.
Istanbul Fashion and Apparel Conference
TCMA continues to organise Istanbul Fashion and Apparel Conference in order to bring together the garment manufacturing value chain rings in business development platform in solidarity of fashion, design, accessories, retail and logistics. In the conference which hosted over 5,000 visitors until this year, almost 5600 B2B appointments were organised. The interview chances was provided for more than140 purchasing offices and representatives. Over than 60 foreign speakers and 100 local speakers participated more than 20 sessions. In these conferences where the opportunity to meet with 25 local brands was possible, the purchasing committee participated from 16 countries. In addition to these, the sponsorship of more than 200 companies, institutions and organizations was provided.
