Takes leave of the CPD Düsseldorf

After more than 30 years, the CPD closes its doors. The fashion fair in Düsseldorf, which for many years was the most important global industry, leaving the parterre fashion by handing the scepter of the new capital of fashion in Berlin. However, each order requires a new beginning.

with src="http://www.fashionunited.it/images/CPD.jpg" a little ' of sadness, but also fond memories that he leaves the Company Ingedo fair in Düsseldorf and the name of CPD. In the last edition, were 400 exhibitors and 12,300 visitors to the fair use for their transactions. Compared with July 2011, the offer appeared more homogeneous and many areas lie empty. Highlight of the show was the new collection "Birds Nameless" turkish fashion designer Ümit Ünal attend CPD eleven years ago for the first time, where he began his career. Her latest creations have been worn in the area dedicated to shows like Cole Mohr by topmodel, Marc Eggers and Keno Ludwig-Eckert.

Among the exhibitors at CPD for years, was revised by its brand Katrin Wieschenkämper Kaethe Maerz. For the designer in Düsseldorf was very important to expose their collections regularly in his hometown. "It's about being present. Basically, I can be in other fairs, "he says. In his opinion, leaders should develop, for years, a concept it launched the show as a platform for alternative brands and designers, cutting edge and innovative. Closing the show was so predictable. Then waits for a successor - The Gallery - which will start in the summer and will focus solely on collections of design up to date in the fields Avantgarde and Accessories, standing out sharply from the previous content of the CPD Signatures. Several seasons, the offer of the fair was strongly characterized by avant-garde collections.

With the end of this important event, it now gives the city a chance to develop and to place himself in an even more solid as a center for the orders. With more than 1,000 showrooms (and bullishness) Düsseldorf will remain so the center of the German orders. New impulses come from the German fashion house Gerry Weber has created a new center of 33 showrooms in 14,000 square feet in the new Hall 30. A company that presents itself is Toni. This German brand of fashion, has chosen the new complex of showrooms as a center for all sales activities and for training at European level. "Unfortunately, in recent years, resonance Düsseldorf International has been gradually declining and the city remained the most important communication platform for the leading providers of business and industry nationwide," says the administrator Enrico Tomassini. The element that has guided the choice of location of the new flagship showroom is the wide range of brands offered in the city. While in Berlin are exposed predominantly young and exclusive collections, Düsseldorf is geared mostly to middle market commercial strip.

In the future it will be important that all those responsible are going in the same direction and they occur on time to the period of the orders, without putting himself in competition with Berlin. Despite the city should abandon the institution CPD, the sector is sure to continue to earn Düsseldorf.

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Photo: CPD / Igedo Company