"The fifth edition of the Denimsandjeans.com Bangladesh show ended on a high note. The event saw about 30 exhibitor companies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Pakistan, China, Turkey, Indonesia and UAE.  The highlight among the buyers’ was the visit of  Diesel teams from Italy and India. Nearly 455 companies and over 1,620 visitors from around the world visited the show. These included top retailers, buying houses, major factories and agents."

The fifth edition of the Denimsandjeans.com Bangladesh show ended on a high note. The event saw about 30 exhibitor companies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Pakistan, China, Turkey, Indonesia and UAE. The highlight among the buyers’ was the visit of Diesel teams from Italy and India. Nearly 455 companies and over 1,620 visitors from around the world visited the show. These included top retailers, buying houses, major factories and agents.

Top denim trends create a buzz

The show is being pitched not just as a trade show but a denim event where a number of activities take place to bring together global denim fraternity. Here visitors can share their views to enable a closer bonding among them. Denimsandjeans organized a direct live video presentation by the Denim Connoiseur– Leopoldo Durante from Italy. Leopoldo is a denim veteran with over 25 years of experience in denim. Leoploldo has worked with some of the most respected brands in the industry including: Evisu, Versace Jeans, Martelli, Levi’s , Vf, D&G , Cavalli , Mustang and a host of other important names .

He is also the Creative Director of his own eco friendly brand ‘Care Label ‘. Leopoldo gave insights into the denim latest trends for A/W’17 and how there was a large difference in the denim created in US, Europe and Asia. He also explained how these differences would gradually be reduced to bring out more natural and authentic denim over the next two years.

Another live video presentation took place directly from the showroom of Pizarro laundries which enabled visitors to view the latest wash trends in denim . Vasco displayed a large collection of Hi Fashion washes, which their company is undertaking for A/W ’17 .

He brought out some intricate washings on jeans including distressing on multiple patchworks, multiple dyeing , intricate color spotting on jeans and distressing. One of the highlights of his presentation was sublimation printing on various denim and even non denim products including wool. One amazing wash which he showed was a complete change in wash look in the front and back panels of the jeans without having washed them separately !

Zafer Bozdag, a denim consultant from Turkey, threw light on how super stretches are being used by in-brands and the problems faced by producers in using these fabrics . He explained with the help of a big collection of jeans how the varying degree of stretches used can affect the garment and can cause great style or create problems.

There was a panel discussion organized by the GIZ which brought out some of the practical things that companies in the supply chain were doing to create sustainable denim production. Panelists were from reputed companies including H&M, Archroma, Gizpses, Zaber Zubair and Envoy Textiles.

The show also conducted for the second time a competition among the fashion students under the theme ‘ Hi-Fashion Denim’ and for the first time, these students’ collections were part of the runway event FASHIONIM, whereas runway also showcased exclusive collections of Vicunha , Brazil and Envoy Textiles, Bangladesh.