In Shanghai, exhibition after exhibition, and all on an international scale. In September, textile workers from all over the world will come here forShanghai Intertextile appear fabrics,

one of the most significant fabric expositions for manufacturers and buyers.

Shanghai Intertextile will be held from 27 to 29 September. Meanwhile, textile trends are already being demonstrated in full force in the city. And one of them is Shanghai itself of the 1930s, with its famous casinos and cabarets, zones of French, English and Japanese influence, with beautiful actresses and luxurious accessories of that amazing era.

Walking through the ancient streets of Shanghai, you will definitely feel the era of Chinese Art Deco and plunge into the retro atmosphere. In boutiques you will be surprised by the interior in the style of the thirties, on packages and bottles in beauty centers you will find beauties and millionaires of Shanghai 90 years ago.

But the most attractive thing is curtains, upholstery, silk curtains, posters and banners made of fabric, which also persistently promote the trend for Chinese retro.

The printing is digital, and in the more expensive case, the author's silkscreen printing.

Textile prints are similar: actresses and singers of the thirties, airplanes and equipment of that era, reproductions of advertising posters.

It looks surprisingly fresh and modern.

Retro has been in fashion for years, but something is still unnoticeable in our silk curtains on the theme of the movie "Circus" with Love Orlova or silk posters in boutiques with the characters of the movie "Tractor drivers". And our airships or the dashing Budyonny, whose T-shirt the current hipsters would tear off from the seller? Where is all this? Where are the children's bedding sets, not with blue-pink bored Disney characters, but with our Suteevsky characters or favorite characters from the "Elusive"? Now, by the way, when the whole world is visiting us, it would be great to show not only a toy to a Bully or a tired A matryoshka doll, but also a unique history of our culture, embodied in textiles. It's a pity that the Chinese came up with this idea a little earlier than us.

Photo by Julia Rigby and Shanghai Inertextile