Trends 2025 will provide design insights for fairgoers to get to grips with the latest industry trends.
Trends 2025: Design Insights for Fairgoers
Introduction
Shanghai, 12 July 2024. In sync with the fair’s 30th anniversary, the comprehensive sourcing platform will host around 12 fringe events for fairgoers to stay ahead of the curve, under the following segments: Design Inspiration, Business O2O, Textiles & Technologies, and Industry Empowerment. As one of the foremost spotlights, Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles has joined forces with Danish trend agency SPOTT Trends & business to present the design theme for 2025 – ‘Healing Home’ – together with eight major trend directions set to captivate the home textiles market. Set to be a hotspot for in-vogue sourcing and industry exchange, the show will take place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from 14 – 16 August 2024.
Trends 2025: Healing Home Theme
To help home textile industry players set the tone and direction for the upcoming business season, the fair will present Trends 2025 along with leading trend agency SPOTT Trends & business, to illustrate the ‘Healing Home– Spaces for Thriving Living’ theme that marks the path ahead for the evolving sector. This concept conveys the idea of a home that promotes a remedial, prosperous lifestyle, improving peoples’ general health and well-being, with several key factors contributing to the overarching theme:
Eight key directions: Age-Old Crafts, Nature-Tech Synergies, Regenerative Possibilities, Wellbeing Spaces, Colourful Gatherings, Bio-Engineered Innovations, Transitional Practices, and Circular Systems.
Five key colors: deep burgundy, warm terracotta, light creamy shade, saturated nostalgic green, and vaporous blue.
The founder of SPOTT Trends & business, Ms. Anja Bisgaard Gaede, will be on site to share insights related to these new design trends. Fairgoers are invited to join her interactive trend tour, and physically experience the concepts steering the industry’s future.
A designated trend display area will illustrate the essentials of this ‘Healing Home’ theme. Visitors looking for early inspiration can explore the trend guide by accessing the full version here.
To spark further design inspiration for industry players, an expert panel discussion of Chinese interior architects and designers, InterDesign Forum, will be held on the afternoon of Day 1. Focusing on design trend topics related to sustainability, Mr Shen Lei, Founder and Design Director of Interior Architects Design and the Chinese representative of the Intertextile International Lifestyle Trend Committee, will lead the discussion. Adding an international perspective, Ms Anja Bisgaard Gaede will join them for the accompanying round table talk.
More than a trend: embracing sustainability in fringe events
In addition to serving as a gateway for efficient sourcing, the show will inspire fairgoers through its fringe program, with various formats and topics unpacking current talking points.
At this edition, eco-friendly product presentations and practical strategies for sustainable applications will play a major part in the event lineup. Highlighted sessions include:
Round table discussion: Bridging Borders: A Designer x Producer Talk on Sustainability – a dialogue between designers and manufacturers, exploring how to collaboratively overcome sustainability challenges and reconcile the demands of both sides, from both Eastern and Western perspectives.
Ecology Talks: selected exhibitors, including 3M, Advansa, and many more, as well as a representative from Indorama will showcase their innovative green products, giving attendees in-person insights into some of the market’s latest sustainable developments in the Sustainable Fibre Forum. Additionally, a Messe Frankfurt representative will explain the Texpertise Ecology concept, the combination of economy and ecology that represents the sustainability activities in the company’s Texpertise Network. The discussion will show how crucial sustainability is for the economic success of a business today, and indicate how fairgoers can benefit from such an approach.
Beyond the subject of a greener textile industry, other topics will be explored at various events. With more to be announced in the coming weeks, the following seminars hosted by international experts will provide the latest trends and market updates:
Bridging Worlds: Design Strategies for Success in Middle Eastern Markets: Ms Esra Lemmens (Day 1)
How Psychology Impacts the Way We Design Spaces: Ms Pallavi Dean (Day 1)
Moreover, the 10th Home Textiles and Furniture Industry Ecological Integration Forum will bring together leading home textile and furniture brands to explore cross-industry collaboration and provide one-stop home solutions. The 30th China Home Textiles Design Festival & Designer Recommended Brand Awards will showcase the latest trends and achievements in home design, allowing participating brands to gain recognition from designers. Meanwhile, the 7th China International Fibre Art Exhibition will invite influential artists from home and abroad to present diverse contemporary fiber artworks; and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage of Textile Exhibition will showcase some remarkable displays.
Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd organises Autumn Edition; the Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT; and the China Home Textile Association (CHTA).
