Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- The 7th edition of Denimsandjeans Bangladesh ended in the capital Thursday evening with high hopes to provide hi-fashion denim products with a lower cost to attract global buyers.
Exhibitors as well as buyers expressed their satisfactions over the expo, saying that it will help creating a platform for denim stakeholders and will make Bangladesh as one stop sourcing platform for denim industry.
Bangladesh has become a major hub for sourcing trendy denim products for international retailers for its competitive pricing, they observed.
“We’ve received very good response from the global brands and retailers as they think Bangladesh is a nice place to source denim at reasonable prices and will lead the global denim industry very soon,” Sandeep Agarwal, Founder of Denimsandjeans.com, said.
He also said: “Our motive is to showcase the potential of Bangladeshi Apparel and Textile Industry to the world by organizing such events.”
About 28 companies from countries including Bangladesh, Turkey, India, China, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Pakistan, Hong Kong etc took part in the exhibition to showcase their denim collections, new technologies, innovations and accessories.
The expo with a new theme –‘Denim Mashup’– focused the latest trend in denim where embellishments, embroideries, sequins, patches, paint etc are used in different combinations to produce visually exaggerated hi fashion denims.
The ‘Denim Mashup’ has been a subtle trend over many years now and we now see its strong resurgence across multiple brands worldwide from luxury brands like Gucci to fast fashion retailers like Zara and H&M, all are taking up this as the next cool denim trend in 2017.
Denimsandjeans.com, a website dedicated to the world denim industry since 2007, organised the show aiming to expand the footprint of denim and denim products made in Bangladesh.
The 8th edition of Denimsandjeans Bangladesh will be held Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in Dhaka on October 04-05, 2017 and the 2nd edition of their Vietnam show is scheduled on June 7-8, 2017 at Gem Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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