CPM Exhibition: Fashion in Facts and Figures
On the eve of the start of the 39th season of Russia's largest international b2b fashion industry exhibition CPM - Collection Première Moscow, the organizer of the event - EXPO FUSION company - discloses information about the participants and statistics of the project.
600 brands of clothing, underwear and accessories from 21 countries, including Russia, Turkey, China, Italy, France, Greece, Belarus, Kazakhstan, will take part in the bayer session of the autumn-winter 2023/24 season at the Moscow Expocenter from February 20 to 23 and others. More than 300 Russian brands and more than 150 Turkish brands will demonstrate record figures in terms of the volume of the exhibition, exceeding the pre-pandemic figures of 2019. The organizers expect to receive more than 18 thousand retailers and other industry specialists at the exhibition site.
A brief overview of the new and most notable participants in several segments of the exhibition: CPM prime - AKHMADULLINA DREAMS, ALEXANDER BOGDANOV, ANNA VERDI, NATASHA DRIGANT; CPM brand corner – SOKOLOVABOGORODSKAYA, ELENA POPOVA, WHITE OCEAN; Made in Russia – BAON, SAVAGE, ELEGANZZA, TRUVOR, YOU, ZOY, GLENFIELD; Made in Italy – BEATRICE.B, SARAH PACINI, LIU JO, ANTONELLA; Made in China – TORRIS, ASTRID, BAIMUNI, VIVICANA, CLASNA, SNOWIMAGE; Made in Turkiye – CARDUCCI, TONY MONTANA, EMILIA RINZI, GUZELLA; Made in Europe – FUEGO, MAT Fashion, TORRAS, TOMO, XD Xenia Design.
An important event of the season will be the return of the collective fashion show CPM exhibition participants after a 3-year break. The CPM SELECTED SHOW and MIX & MATCH SHOW will be held on the podium in the Forum pavilion. Guests will be able to see the collections of ALEX FUR, ALEXANDER BOGDANOV, ELEGANZZA, FRANCO VELLO, ODALIA and ZAMAN. In addition, on February 22 at 16:30, a gala screening of the IX All-Russian competition of fashion designers PROfashion Masters will be held with the support of the Prestige Fabrics company.
The exhibition project dreams by CPM enjoys special attention of many buyers, representing in the pavilion "Forum" the leading local and international brands of underwear, beach fashion, home wear and fitness in the relevant areas - lingerie, beach, active, erotic, home. In February, new seasonal, off-season and cruise collections will be presented at the stands of CATERINA GROUP, LUNA B, LE JOURNAL INTIME, FIGURATA, HAYS, JOHN FRANK and many others. In total, the exhibition will include more than 50 brands from 11 countries. Many novelties will be shown to guests not only as part of the permanent exhibition, but also at the dreams selected show catwalk shows, whose participants will be ANGEL'S SECRETS, CHANTELLE SOFTSTRETCH, HANRO, LA DEA, LUNA B, SIMONE PÉRÈLE.
As part of the special project to support young talents of the exhibition - CPM designerpool - new collections will be presented by designers Farrukh Boltabaev (FARRDI brand) and Irina Shkolnaya (ANNAVIVIANI brand), as well as finalists of the Admiralty Needle competition - Ivan Butyrsky, Ekaterina Evmenyeva (SUCCUB brand) and Sergey Kurokhtin (KUROKHTIN brand), whose works are united by the theme of ecology, upcycling and recycling. In addition, all participants of the special project will hold a collective podium show on February 21 at 17:00 in the pavilion "Forum".
Contributing to the active development of intra-industry communications, the exhibition regularly presents a section of specialized educational institutions united in the section CPM school, a stand CPM fashion connect for job search and job placement, organized jointly with the recruitment agency "Fashion Bureau", and There is also a space for finding contractors for contract production “Contract Exchange”, working with the support of the Moscow Innovation Cluster i.moscow and the RAFI Association.
Having successfully implemented the reconstruction of the RFRF business forum - Russian Fashion Retail Forum in 2022, the organizers of the exhibition will present the second season of the updated business program. Its schedule will include three streams: the RFRF main stage conference, the RFRF meetup workshop session, as well as the expert lecture of the RFRF dreams dialogue lingerie market.
In total, the four-day business forum of the fashion industry will bring together about 100 speakers, more than 1,500 guests and 30 meetings in the formats of public talks, workshops and lectures. The most anticipated sessions will be on strategic business planning - with the participation of Fashion Consulting Group, RBC Market Research and Romir; on state support of the fashion industry - with the participation of the RAFI Association, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Russian Export Center and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow; on the review of the most important trends of the autumn-winter 2023/24 season - with the participation of the world's leading agencies Carlin, Promostyl, FashionSnoops and Trendsite; as well as meetup sessions with the participation of OZON and Avito companies. The strategic partners of the forum in the new season are Fashion Consulting Group, RBC Market Research, RAFI Association, PROfashion media holding, platform FashionSfera.ru , platform Retail.ru , the leading school in the field of fashion education in Russia and the CIS, Fashion Factory School, Shopping Centers Russia publication, Buybrand business platform, Telegram channel and the Fashion Pumping agency, as well as the Store 4.0 project.