If you’re interested in learning how to buy or sell wholesale, go to trade shows and apparel markets!
Trade shows are wonderful sources of inspiration and allow you to keep up with the latest fashion trends and brands in the business.
We strongly advise retailers and boutiques to visit trade fairs to discover new products and ways to refresh their range and brands to attend as exhibitors to meet with new buyers, boutiques, and industry mavens and stay competitive in their market.
1. Dallas Total Home & Gift Market – Dallas Apparel & Accessories Market
Date: January 5 to 11th, 2022.
Venue: Dallas Market, Texas
Every January, March, June, August, and October, the Dallas garments & accessories market displays apparel and accessories in various areas. Discover a diverse choice of temporary exhibitors at the scene, in addition to the permanent fashion showrooms inside fashioncenterdallas®. View the juried temporary display, including young contemporary, women’s fashion, western, and accessory designers.
The Dallas Apparel & accessories market features fashion in various areas, from classic aesthetics to the current edge. The Dallas total home & gift market is the go-to place for cutting-edge merchandise. Over 20,000 gift and home decor lines are available in a convenient, easy-to-navigate marketplace. Over 200,000 buyers visit the Dallas market center each year to place orders with our exhibitors. These are devoted customers from all 50 states as well as over 85 countries. They represent both small specialist shops and big-box stores.
2. WESA – Western & English Sales Association – Denver International Western/English Apparel & Equipment Market
Date: 13-16 January 2022
Venue: Dallas, Texas Embassy Suites by Hilton Dallas market center
With a country charm and a down-home welcome, the Denver international western/English apparel & equipment market provides shops with one-stop shopping in one location. There is something for everyone at the Denver WESA market, with over 750 exhibitors presenting new and innovative items. Shop over 250,000 square feet of exhibit space designed specifically for retailers to educate and dazzle with new and intriguing concepts as well as tried-and-true favorites.
Denver market features educational seminars every morning as well as horse demonstrations every day. They also offer western apparel and accessories, tack, leather goods, animal health products, English apparel and equipment, equestrian-related home décor, gifts, and jewelry. Make yourself an expert in the eyes of your customers, and apply what you’ve learned in your store when you get home.
Tradeshows are still the sole way to see, touch, and learn about things in person before making a purchase. It’s also the only place to meet industry leaders and talk about your worries, challenges, and solutions.
Attend the Denver market, “Where industry meets,” To see why people keep coming back to Denver and supporting the WESA January market! After 92 years of success, the Western & English sales association remains resilient and looking to the future while maintaining our western and English heritage’s deep-rooted values!
3. Outdoor Retailer & Snow Show
Date: January 26-28, 2022
Venue: The colorado convention center, colorado
The leading b2b outdoor expo is an outdoor retailer. It’s where you can place orders, look for new accounts, network, and establish outdoor businesses. Outdoor retailer draws hundreds of retail shoppers and decision-makers looking for outdoor products, services, brands, new ideas, garment launches, and innovation, from tiny shops to regional chains to the largest national and international stores. This is where the outdoor community from all over the world congregates.
4. Dallas Men’s Show
Date: Jan 29 – 31, 2022
Venue: Dallas market center, Dallas, Texas
The Dallas men’s show features traditional and contemporary men’s clothing, accessories, footwear, gift, and western lines. All of your sourcing requirements are met under one roof. Enjoy fantastic hospitality pop-ups, a Saturday evening networking party, and more!
5. Project
Date: Feb 14 – 16, 2022
Venue: Las Vegas convention center, Nevada
Project is the world’s most prominent men’s fashion event, showcasing premium denim, contemporary fashion, and fashion designers. Thanks to these skillfully merchandised men’s fashion experiences, retail outlets can get all the menswear they need from one place.
UBM Fashion services the $1 trillion+ global fashion industry through complete marketplaces in new york (NY men’s and NY women’s), Las Vegas (magic), and Japan, bringing together the most influential fashion retail decision-makers and the world’s top fashion brands (magic Japan).
This event covers all major fashion categories, from men’s, women’s, and children’s clothes, accessories, and footwear to manufacturing resources and service providers.
UBM Fashion is the premier producer of world-renowned fashion tradeshows such as magic, coterie, project, and fn platform, founded by UBM PLC. We believe that bringing together the industry’s best talent and most dynamic shows will help us deliver on our promise to the industry: To get the best apparel, footwear, accessories, and fashion products, we bring together great brands and retailers in beautifully merchandised shows.
6. WWIN – Women’s Wear In Nevada
Date: Feb 15 – 18, 2022
Venue: Caesar’s forum, las vegas, Nevada
It’s here if it’s new!
This is the ideal place to view the newest debuts and emerging trends, with a show floor loaded with top-name brands and up-and-coming innovators offering over 1,500+ lines from 500+ participants.
The show is for women of all sizes.
There are innumerable styles in every category and price range – missy, petite, tall, plus size, contemporary, and classic – to choose from.
Discover new resources you couldn’t find elsewhere
Wwin provides you with a selection that will truly help you identify your store in your town as one of the leading apparel trade events dedicated solely to womenswear. It’s a great way to find unique designs, create contacts with vendors, and see new merchandising concepts.
Accessories
The wwin fair has a legendary reputation among shops as a fantastic accessory trade show, with a treasure trove of shoes, hats, purses, jewelry, belts, scarves, and much more!
7. StorePoint Fashion
Date: Mar 13 – 16, 2022
Venue: Westin Kierland Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona
The September 2021 storepoint fashion event has been canceled.
StorePoint fashion, which was supposed to take place from September 12 to 15, 2021, has been canceled. It became evident that convening the chain executive audience for storepoint fashion 2021 would be impossible due to the difficult circumstances surrounding the advent of the covid-19 delta variant in Florida.
The Westin Kierland in Scottsdale, Arizona, will host its next in-person event on March 13-16, 2022. This is a fantastic opportunity to see the latest fashion trends in the market, as well as a large and exclusive selection.
8. The New International Lingerie Show
Date: Mar 12 – 14, 2022
Venue: Rio all-suite hotel, las vegas, Nevada
Ils has been the country’s largest wholesale trade show for sassy lingerie for over 20 years. The “New international lingerie show” Is back for its third year, with the fifth successful event slated for March 16-18, 2020.
Come & see the top lingerie companies, from classic to sassy, and everything in between. Find out what’s the latest in trends, collections, and products. Find the latest dancewear trends, as well as much more.
9. Southern Women’s Show Richmond
Date: Mar 18 – 20, 2022
Venue: Richmond raceway complex, Richmond, Virginia
Southern ladies are proud of their exceptional reputation for providing a unique experience for women. The women’s show is your opportunity to meet and talk one-on-one with thousands of women in a festive, entertaining, and professional setting. Make a success story of your own! Come along with them.
10. Dallas Apparel & Accessories Market
Date: Jun 21 – 24, 2022
Venue: Dallas market center, Dallas, Texas
Located in Dallas, Texas, Dallas Market Center is the premier wholesale marketplace for home decor, gifts, lighting, and fashion, linking retailers and interior designers with top manufacturers.
Nearly 200,000 customers from all 50 states and 85 countries visit its lively, five million-square-foot campus in downtown Dallas to learn about industry trends, business education, and new products in open-daily showrooms and from exhibitors at trade shows conducted throughout the year. In Texas, entrepreneurs like to do things large, and the Dallas market center is no exception! The most innovative items from every category imaginable are housed in four buildings on the five million-square-foot campus: The world trade center, trade mart, interior home + design center, and market hall. This trade show has so much to offer you that it would take 100 acres to contain everything.