Dusseldorf Fashion Days: A TribaSpace Review
CPD by Igedo company
This year Dusseldorf is shifting the way agencies and brands showcase their products. Diversity of locations, events and supporting initiatives attracts more international and local visitors promising exciting new contacts for everyone while maintaining traditionally commercial focus of the trade fair.
CPD, one of the most important women’s wear trade shows in the world – accounted for the stands of 950 participating brands with three large halls. Unique to the trade show are sections for Maternity Wear (the largest in Europe by number of participating brands) and “Big is Beautiful,” which offers plus-size clothing.
Designer Focus: kimberit
kimberit. Photo credit: Iris Friedrich
A native of Hamburg, Germany, Kim Berit Heppelmann graduated from the Kunstschule Blankenese, Hamburg in 1999. While studying she completed a three year apprenticeship as a dressmaker and has since had a clear vision for her designs and aesthetic direction, to create: “clothing as an art medium” while defining “dressmaking as the architecture of movement.” Prior to launching her haute couture label kimberit, Heppelmann took part in further studies at Accademia di costume e di moda, Rome and completed an internship at Tim van Steenbergen in Antwerp. Read more
