The physical FASHION DAYs have always been the place and occasion for networking, information and inspiration for the industry. After an interruption due to corona, DMI is finally organizing such a physical FASHION DAY again. The date (July 17, 2023) and the location (MOC Munich) offer guests the opportunity to “kill two birds with one stone”, namely to visit MUNICH FABRIC START and the DMI FASHION DAY LIVE the afternoon before.
Numerous colleagues from the leading companies in our industry who have already registered welcome the initiative because they would like to have more contact with each other again. Because many of them are currently facing challenges that they cannot overcome on their own, but only in coordination with others. Against the background of inflation, for example, one such challenge is pricing, especially with regard to price points established by customers. In this respect, we have to make new appointments with each other.
As the central kick-off event for working on a new season, the DMI FASHION DAY program offers decision-makers the information they need to set the right course for winter 24, both strategically and creatively, and also the opportunity to get involved in the Networking with decision-makers from other companies over coffee and dinner.
“Fashion companies are currently facing numerous challenges that they cannot overcome on their own, but only in coordination with other companies. That’s why, after the long phase of forced non-contact, we have to make new appointments – in personal exchange, at a joint event,” says Gerd Müller-Thomkins, CEO
“If we hold the DMI FASHION DAY the day before the most important fabrics fair in Munich, then that makes sense not only logistically but also in terms of content. It’s about making the information available exactly where it is needed, namely at the moment when, with the selection of fabrics, the course is set for the season,” says Carl Tillessen, CEO
Program:
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m
- WHOLESALE OR D2C? – A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
- TOWARDS THE SYMBIOCENE – IMPULSES FOR AN ERA OF NON-DOMINATION
- HOW DO WE PACKAGE PEOPLE? – A RESET IN THE MODE
4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m
4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m
- Trend current #1 SOLITAIRE
- Trend current #2 FEMINTUITION
- GENDER SHIFT – EQUALITY INSTEAD OF TRAVESTY
- Trend #3 COEXISTENCE
- Trend #4 QUIET MEETS LOUD
6:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m
6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m
- Q&A with industry analysts and trendsetters
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m
- dinner together, networking
Participation costs €320 per person
Content outlook:
HOW DO WE PACKAGE PEOPLE? – A RESET IN THE MODE
We were so looking forward to the time after the pandemic, and then this: war in Europe, bottlenecks in the energy supply and the highest inflation in 71 years. We feel abandoned by luck and pursued by bad luck.
And so, in the last few months, a great deal of nostalgia has spread throughout our society and fashion. We think back to happier times, when our news feeds weren’t full from dawn to dusk with live broadcasts of the world’s crises and wars, times when we could face those crises and wars as calmly as the newscaster who mentioned them briefly before he got into football and the weather. We long for the carefree days when the earth’s resources seemed endless and not every pleasure was overshadowed by the guilty conscience of wasting those resources.
We miss the unalloyed joy you used to feel when you used your hard-earned cash to treat yourself to a brand-new pair of shoes, a car gleaming in the sun, a flight to New York, or just a juicy fillet steak. In retrospect, this past life seems like paradise. A paradise we were kicked out of because we did something wrong. And now we want nothing more than to get a second chance and start all over again. “The word of the season has been ‘restart’”, states Imran Amed after the last round of shows.
It is precisely this longing for a completely new beginning that Ludovic de Saint Senin expresses with his debut with Ann Demeulemeester. Going back to the start, it literally starts with Adam and Eve – before they were expelled from Paradise, before they knew good and evil, and before “they knew they were naked.” JW Anderson, too, sends his male models down the catwalk in Adam’s costume, clad only in a fig leaf. He thus creates the tabula rasa on which fashion can reinvent itself once again. “How do we package people?” he asks himself and us. As if that were still completely open. In fashion, but also with your customers, everything is really up for discussion at the moment.