When the hits and misses from various fashion weeks around the world are making the rounds on internet, tradeshows hold court with their strikingly innovative designs and a brigade of new talents holding hands with established high-end brands and premium street labels. Amongst many such shows, the most design-forward to grab our eyeballs were Capsule and Project tradeshows held in Las Vegas recently. Tagged as top Las Vegas apparel and accessories tradeshows, the business-to-business shows delivered the perfect dose of progressive styles while reflecting today’s mash up culture with Fall/Winter 2012 collections on display.
A new fashion exhibition, the two-day Capsule Las Vegas brought the world’s most directional independent designers, super premium street wear and lifestyle brands together under one roof. From kids range to laundries, to women and men briefs, it came out as a hotbed for new launches. The denim remained the shining star of the show with labels like Skargorn by Rikke Kroff launching its neo-vintage re-worked denims with Scandinavian edge.
The Japanese brand, Remi Relief showed embroidered and beaded denim shirts, cozy quilted vests and classic trucker reworked in suede. Whereas HW Carter workwear had 1930s archival style with eye catching attention to details. Moreover, there were Keds, Norse Projects, Sydney Brown, Topman and Jack Spade amongst others displaying their F/W 2012 collections.
On the other hand, Project Las Vegas tradeshow had a lineup of contemporary brands like Betsey Johnson, Doc Marten, Melissa and Toms Eyewear, to just name a few. Apart from F/W 2012 apparel and accessories showed, there were also many initiatives aiming at educating designers and buyers about the use of social media and technologies to target the customers.
The exhibition witnessed Doc Martens x Pendleton fall 2012 featuring some great Native American prints on shoes and bags. Also on display were Melissa’s glittering belles and Doc Marten’s signature shoes in purple and yellow. Our very own Manish Arora’s collaboration with Notify Jeans had hologram denims on offer whereas labels Bleulab and Ksubi showed floral printed jeans and coated florals.
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