Strong Bluezone edition

08/09/2025
Strong Bluezone edition
The new four show-in-show format of Munich Fabric Start closed last week with a stable number of visitors compared to its January edition, which saw visitor count increase by 4%. Now housed in the MOC Bluezone, the denim-focused event, lost its industrial setting in the Zenith Hall, but gained a livelier atmosphere. “It is on the rebound and a space to watch,” Tilmann Wröbel told Inside Denim. 

The 40 denim mills exhibiting at this edition focused on innovation in lessening the industry’s impact. Highlights include Tejidos Royo’s first fabric made from 100% pre-consumer recycled cotton dyed with the company’s Dry Indigo technology. Turkey-based Isko also presented the evolution of its circular fabrics, Recode Denim, developed in collaboration with the group’s recycling unit, Re&Up. 

Organisers said that the trade show’s dates were the subject of intense discussion among both visitors and exhibitors throughout the two-day event. They are considering mid to late July dates for the next autumn-winter season show in 2026. An announcement is expected in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the next edition, presenting fabric collections for Spring/Summer 2027, will return to a three-day format, running January 27 to 29, 2026. 

Image courtesy of Bluezone/Munich Fabric Start