Keeping on the move, evolving and changing are key words behind SPINEXPO^TM Shanghai Trend presentations for this coming September session.More initiatives and Research areas are on display.

“Sensing the Motion”, the motto behind the seasonal trends!

Whether in spinning, knitting, or silhouette, nothing is considered impossible in design and manufacturing today. Products have become more technical, yet practical and comfortable.There are no rules as casualwear is embellished and couture is pared down.

The trend area at SPINEXPO^TM is a reflection and an observation of where the industry is going, as the team behind the trends has the privilege to have insight into the global leaders of spinning and knitting each season.

SPINEXPO’s trend area is therefore created as a partnership with the exhibitors making the trends directional yet also commercially available to for immediately sourcing.

Eight individual capsules focus on specific trends:

DETAIL is a direction about precision and detail, skillful execution of crafts from lace to laser cutting, with clean and smooth surfaces. Choice fibres speak about essential quality and a play on twisting yarns for both novelty components and textural bi-colour effects.

HONESTY is a warm group of neutrals, with the need for a sensuous and warm touch, with many surfaces and textures for soft, cosy brushed and hairy effects, contrasting textured marls through to soft shimmering metallics. Yarns are far from classic.

VALUE is all about yellow and yarns take on a luxurious feel, with a strong sense of touch and surface with deep hairy aspects mixed with hairy aspects and transparency.  From mohair to alpaca, cashmere to silk, counts can be fine or chunky, smooth or lofty, clean or marled as long as they feel special and unique.

POWER ranges from precious bronze through to berry reds and rich winter fruit tones.  Yarns come alive with neps, fancy twists, metallic finishes, dyed effects and plenty of surface hair, and bring a sense of craft and artisan.

TOUCH, from pink to purple, for yarns textured by lush, with a velvety touch, multi-colour twists and rich mélanges, softness, furry and feathered looks and a lot of sheen.

FREEDOM speaks of dynamic blues, with yarns echoing with frosted effects, metallics, next to skin effects.

VITALITY goes from fresh greens to olives for yarns with a technical edge, marled, nepped and dyed in unexpected ways.

ENERGY is a palette of neon colours accepted now on every level, from sport, fast fashion to luxury.  The palette applies with best effect to sporty and technical yarns from mohair, cashmere, cotton to novelties.

Denim Couture

Denim Couture takes you through the passages of time with denim and its history as a background to showcase where it can go in the future.  The exhibit displays a diverse range of over twenty outfits that each have their own personality and interpret denim to be beautifully crafted and exquisitely reinvented.

Six designers, spanning from pure embroidery specialists, established collection designers, to emerging talents animate this display with their unique, entirely individual interpretations.

Nottingham Trent University Graduate Fashion Knitwear and Textiles

Twenty four recently graduated NTU students are presenting some outstanding collections featuring a diverse range of creativity and technical applications for fabrics and garment designs including the traditional crafts of knitting, weaving, embroidery and print, with the new technologies of power knitting, laser cutting and digital printing, making them directional and relevant to the direction of fashion and textiles today.

With emerging innovative designs like 3D seamless garments, knitted shoes, digital print and many other concepts, the designer must ensure that innovation is achieved with the technology available but at the same time maintain the traditional skills of the craft.

Knitwear Designer Showcase

Part of the Knitwear Pavilion at SPINEXPOTM, Designer Showcase is about the deeper understanding of developing techniques and individual style within the scope of fashion knitwear and how this can be created to be catwalk ready.

Four designers have each taken their own unique style and handwriting to create sophisticated and involved outfits on display as a static catwalk concept.