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TRADE SHOW NEWS SHOW PREVIEW Spring Fair & Moda February 2022
6th – 9th February 2022 at the NEC Birmingham. With Moda as its 4th destination, alongside Home, Gift and Design & Source, Spring Fair creates a compelling platform for buyers. Bringing UK and international brands and suppliers together with retailers, buyers, contractors, and designers, the show builds communities, nurtures collaboration and helps forge lasting relationships. If you want to touch, feel, and experience the latest products, trends and innovations across home, gift, fashion, and sourcing, Spring Fair is the marketplace for you. As well as becoming a 4-day show, Moda now
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offers retailers the most diverse fashion buying destination in the UK, with a comprehensive and inspiring line-up of industry leading womenswear, jewellery, accessories, footwear, and sustainable brands from the UK and around the world within its new sectors: Womenswear, Footwear, Fashion Accessories, and the Jewellery & Watch edit. Simon Lau, Spring Fair and Moda Event Director says; “We are very excited
to be creating a compelling new Fashion offering at Spring Fair. Moda, incorporating the Jewellery & Watch edit, and home to the National Footwear Show, will feature the most coveted jewellery and fashion brands showcasing classic to contemporary womenswear, accessories, jewellery, watches, as well as must-have footwear, kids’ footwear, handbags, wallets, scarves, and luggage – all in one handy destination. After an incredibly successful Autumn Fair, our efforts are now focused on delivering an even more successful Spring edition with the new Moda fashion destination offering a powerful showcase for the industry.” A selection of confirmed footwear brands includes Superfit, Xti and Xti
Kids, Refresh, CAT footwear, Alpe, Fly London, Keddo, Blowfish Malibu, HOGL, Carmela, Mustang, Legero, Vionic, and Naturalista. The show is also delighted to welcome the Wortmann Group with brands including Caprice, Tamaris, Marco Tozzo, S Oliver, and Jana. The proposition for kids is also very strong with a diverse offering across
the show with kid’s giftware, toys, and apparel and within the dedicated kid’s footwear section Little Soles, visitors will see brands including Start-Rite, CAT kid’s footwear, Froddo, Lurchi, Young Soles, and Petasil. Lisa Govier, Director of Footwear, Moda, says: “We were delighted with the reaction to Moda’s co-location with Autumn Fair and Spring Fair. The
or the first time in its history, leading fashion show Moda finds a new home as the Fashion destination within Spring Fair, taking place on
September show delivered beyond all expectations and Moda at Spring Fair looks set to be even better. We are obsessed about bringing the industry back together again and we could not be more excited about the new opportunities, in addition to our traditional and regular Moda visitors, that this opens up for our exhibitors.” Within womenswear, Jayley, who had their best
show ever in September, return for Spring – as do Godske Group with Robell, Frandsen, Nordic Gallery, Normann, Icona, Sunday, Habella, That’s Me, Gomaye, Tia, Que, Q’neel, Molly Jo, Femme, Godske, and Jorli Knitwear. Other brands to look out for include Lighthouse
Clothing, Khost, Spirit, Sonder Glamour, DECK LA RUSH, Saloos, Outdoor Leisurewear, Gill International, Jessica Graff, Sunco, Paradiso Couture, Beau Moda, Vijay Fashion, Goose Island, Perfection Clothing, Evylaure (accessories), Meremiss, and Alice Collins. The desire for sustainable and ethically sourced brands continues to grow. Visitors will discover
new designs from returning brands Nomads Clothing, Soya Concept and Lily &Me. The show also welcomes sustainable and recycled eyewear brand Waterhaul, and a host of Turkish brands are returning including ready to wear and contemporary brand Hukka Design and Jus De Pommes, as well as footwear brands Charmia, Pandora Shoes, Rovigo, Mr Calvano and Divino Shoes. The Jewellery & Watch edit offers fashion and jewellery buyers the chance
to see the widest collection of new season pieces across a wide variety of price points and explore crossover buying opportunities – all in the one location. There will be a wonderful array of jewellery and accessories brands and designers to discover and complement the womenswear and footwear offer, Herbert Marx, Scream Pretty, Lesley Donn, Perfection, Pretty Pink Jewellery, Amber Hall Jewellery, Buvy Jewellery, Cavendish French, Kali Ma Designs Ltd, Lakshya Gems, Leslie Donn Ltd, Lido Pearls, London Pearl, Maharaja Art Palace, MG Diamonds, Midhaven Ltd, Morrish, Paradise Jewellery, Perfection Jewellery, Ronin Jewellery, Sea Gems Ltd, Silver Gallery ltd, Spoke 925, The Old Farmhouse Jewellery, Victorian Jewels, Equilibrium by Y & L Company, Zeina Hariri Jewelry, Rodney Holman, Silver Creations PVT, Dolphin Minerals, Georgia Wang, Bluebird Chain and findings, Goodman Bros, and more. Spring Fair is focused on ensuring the best possible experience for visitors
and exhibitors and a diverse product offering ensuring everyone across the supply chain has a home at Spring Fair during the key buying period. After its successful trial at Autumn Fair, Curated Meetings is scaling up for
its official launch at Spring Fair offering more space, more meetings, and more sectors. Over 300 15-minute, pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings between buyers and relevant brands based on mutual interest generated thousands of pounds of new business at Autumn Fair and the programme now includes brands across all sectors including home, gift, lifestyle, fashion, accessories and jewellery. And, the ever-popular Moda VIP Programme, previously known as the
Moda Hosted Buyers Programme, continues for Spring Fair and demonstrates the show’s commitment to supporting its customers and help ensure it delivers a good return on investment.
For further information please visit
https://www.springfair.com/ show-sectors/moda and
www.moda-uk.co.uk. For the latest Safe & Secure Guidelines please visit
https://www.springfair.com/visit/safe-secure
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