Individual signatures, creative designs, highest quality—this is what the German bag labels that together started the "German Bag Designer" project stand for. Labels such as OWA, Sequenza, Gretchen – The Little Pearl and Nicole Pietag show bundled German trend expertise in the exclusivity area in hall 9 at GDS/GLS from 14 through 16 September 2007. The labels are using GDS/GLS to present themselves as a community to the international trade audience.

With its new Fall 2007 line, UGG Australia becomes a leader in the fashion world, while continuing to be the premier in comfort and luxury. This season offers a tremendous variety that spans from dress basics to high fashion for Women, Men and Kids. The versatile Soho Collection features beautiful materials such as leathers, suedes, sheepskin and even tweed. This collection satisfies a variety of...

A “new aesthetics” is asserting – reaching from the interior over architecture up to culture. These things that form our ambience also inevitably influence fashion. Clear outlines and new volumes characterize the look. Lengths and widths shift towards all directions. Narrow versus volume. At the same time rouses a “new bourgeoisie” – expression of a reversion to moral values thus creating impulses that enforce a turn towards “old values”. The fundus of “Queen Mum” is all the same plundered like the trunk of a British hunting party.

The Berlin designer Julia Lipinsky develops under the name of ZABOT new and innovative hybrid clogs. Zabot combines the look of Scandinavian wooden dogs and the shape of elegant and narrow closed sandals, which are producing inimitable silhouettes. ZABOT combines the features of timeless shape, high-quality materials of wood and leather, trendy colours and extraordinary patterns. Fascinatingly moulded leather and anatomically welcoming...

The launch of the first SALEWA footwear line was extremely successful. Now the leading all-round supplier in outdoor and mountain sports is presenting its first winter collection with appealing new colours and a special model with the winter proven Thinsulate liner. Thanks to the smart leather construction, exceptional lightness and the unique multiple last sizing, all shoes come with the striking 100% blister free guarantee.

The global leather industry may be changing, but it is also booming and expanding into new exciting – and profitable - markets.  That was the clear message from the twin APLF exhibitions, Materials, Manufacturing & Technology (MMT) and Fashion Access (FA) recently held over March 28-30, 2007. With the traditional leather industry merging into the vast international apparel and fashion industry both MMT and FA focus more and more into providing market intelligence, fashion and trend forecasting, and drawing in a far wider selection of buyers than ever before. 

Each season EJECT presents new innovative and extravagant models, without losing the brand identity and with the constant concern of dictating the international fashion tendency. The new Winter 2007 EJECT collection was inspired by the theme "body seduction… “where the seduction games are represented by the hot colors of the desire and the new groups Carol and CowBel reveal the lovers' silhouette melted in only one body, united by unbreakable links.

ispo china winter 07, which was held for the first time in the new location in Beijing from March 14th to 17th, 2007, registered a total of 12,059 visitors (ispo china 06 in Shanghai: 11,098) mainly from the complete Asia-Pacific Region. 300 brands from 20 countries presented their products and brand philosophies at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing on 16,500 square meters.