MEDIA INFORMATION

Character
Professional magazine for dressmaking company management and specialists.

Contents

- Fashion design and pattern designing:
Information on fashion trends, current design, model study, pattern designing and scaling, use of computers and their applications.

- Fabrics:
Current new features in fabrics for the production of all classes of men’s, women’s and children’s articles: tailoring, shirt-making, trousers, skirts, dresses, suits, blouses and sportswear, denim party wear, brides, pyjamas and sports garments etc. These are presented in the form of articles and full-colour photo panels.

- Accessories:
The very latest in linings, ribbons, shoulder pads, necks, belts, zips, adhesive tapes, and for fastening, pleating, glass beads, chains, flowers, sequins, passementerie etc, through information and full-colour photo panels. The world of interlinings and fabrics for special purposes. Complementary articles such as coat hangers, labels, containers, padding, filling, quilting, industrial adhesive stampings and laminates etc.

- Manufacturing equipment and systems:
Continuous updating of machinery and techniques for the processes in cutting, dressmaking and ironing rooms. Computers, together with their applications. The use of interlinings and the development of heat-fastening processes. The study of new processes and of methods and times.
Work, installations and transport logistics.

- Accessories and auxiliary equipment:
The updating of sewing machine and auxiliary process equipment accessories.

- Company life:
A brief description of the more significant business activities with reports on the dressmaking companies, supplier and auxiliary firms in the industry, together with ready-to-wear wholesalers and distributors.

- Trade union matters:
Brief descriptions and analyses of associated matters and of trade unions in the dressmaking industries throughout Spain.

- Shows:
Extensive reports on national and international shows for machinery and accessories for dressmaking, fabrics, accessories, together with the best fashion shows.

- Economics page:
Studies of the dressmaking market and the current industrial status with the respect to the various situations it is passing though.

- Interviews:
Significant or current affairs within the sector in interviews with those persons involved.

- Bibliography and documentation:
Analysis of technical catalogues, reports and books concerning dressmaking.

- News and comments:
Industry news and comments.

Language of contents
Spanish & English.

Publishing frequency
Quarterly: February, May, September and November.

Publicity
Adverts for machinery, equipment (including computer-related) and accessories used in design, cutting, dressmaking, ironing and finishing of all types of garments. Adverts from the manufacturers of fabrics, linings and interlinings. Adverts for companies specialising in needlework and fabric stamping, accessory manufacturers and wholesalers (belts, shoulder pads, necks, waistbands needles, zips and fasteners etc) adornments (flowers, chains and sequins etc) and complements (coat hangers, labels and containers etc). Labels and labelling equipment.

Readership
National: Dressmaking industry management and specialists, together with those from machinery and accessory manufacturing and distribution companies. Designers and pattern designers within the actual industry itself or independent, accessory and fabric wholesalers. Management and qualified personnel employed by fabric manufacturers, thread, interlining, zip, ribbon, button and passementerie suppliers.

Geographic distribution
International: Dressmakers. Machinery import companies, fabric, accessory and auxiliary product suppliers.

- America:
México, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, Perú, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panamá, Bolivia and Ecuador.

- Europe:
Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakian Republic, Croatia, Israel, Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Cyprus.

- Africa:
Morocco and Tunisia.

- Asia:
India.

Show promotion
The magazine is promoted among the exhibitors and visitors at the following shows:

- Barcelona fashion shows:
NOVIA ESPAÑA, GAUDÍ HOMBRE, ESPACIO GAUIDÍ DISENADORES, SPOKO, GAUDÍ MUJER.

- Shows at the “SIMM” international Madrid fashion week:
IMAGENMODA, INTERMODA, IBERPIEL/PELETERÍA, CIEN X CIEN.

- International children’s shows:
FERIA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MODA INFANTIL “FIMI” (Valencia, Spain).

- Fabric and accessory shows:
TEXTILMODA (Madrid), MOD’AMONT (Paris), PREMIERE VISION (Paris), MODA IN (Milan, Italy), EUROTUCH (Dusseldorf, Germany), MOD’TISSIMO (Oporto, Portugal), INTERSTOFF ASIA (Hong Kong, Asia), INTERSTOFF (Frankfurt, Germany), EUROPEAN TEXTILE SELECTION “ETS” (New York, USA), MEXICO TEXTIL (México, D.F).

- Machinery shows:
IMB (Cologne), EXINTEX PUEBLA (Puebla, Mexico), ITMA (Birmingham, UK), IKME (Milan, Italy), MAQ & PUNT (Igualada, Barcelona), CONFECCIONE EXPO (Padua, Italy), TECNO TMA TEXTIL (Bolognia, Italy), FAST (Verona, Italy), SAMAB SUD (Bari, Italy), SISTEMA MODA ITALIA (Milan, Italy), EXPOPROVEDURIA TEXTIL (Moroleon, Mexico), FEGATEX (Vigo, Spain), MUESTRA DE MAQUINARIA PARA LA CONFECCIÓN (Barcelona, Spain), FERIA DE MAQUINARIA Y ACCESORIOS PARA LA CONFECCION “FEMACO” (Talavera de la Reina, Toledo).