Colour + Textile Trends

The increasingly difficult economic environment confronts textile design with special challenges. Materials must offer consumers real added value at these times. Quality and function criteria are facts which more than ever are subjected to a critical examination. Secured and improved quality standards, comfort and innovative functionality as well as sustainability must be developed with an attractive price-benefit ratio. These intelligent BASICs are the preconditions for future successes. However, they only lead to the target when they find aesthetically new and creative answers which are convincing. The interplay of almost immaterial lightness and consistent, genuine materiality is a key factor of fabric development. A silky brilliance provides fabrics with a seductive drape, naturally moved surfaces provide tactile implicitness. A subtler, optimistic colourfulness increases attractiveness. Fantasy expresses itself in the large number of creative fancy weaves which extend the triumphal march of the checks in winter. Prints go in innovative directions and abandon classic repeats and pattern models. Inkjet technology spectacularly extends pattern possibilities with unmistakable visuals.

Textile creation thus finds its way back to its original strength, to FASCINATION.