Pitti Immagine trade shows releases new calendar

Pitti Immagine trade shows releases new calendar

The Board of Directors of Pitti Immagine made decisions regarding the calendar of the Pitti Uomo fairs scheduled for the 2020 summer season with a new calendar as below:

Pitti Immagine Uomo no. 98 is confirmed and will move to 2 to 4 September (3 days), once again at the Fortezza da Basso, Florence

Pitti Immagine Bimbo no. 91 is confirmed and will move to 9-10 September (2 days), at the Fortezza da Basso, Florence

Pitti Immagine Filati no. 87 is confirmed and its exact position on the calendar will be discussed at the next Technical Committee, scheduled for April, 8th

Fragranze no. 18 is confirmed with the original dates, 11-13 September, at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence

Super n. 16 is confirmed with the original dates, 24-27 September, at the Padiglione Visconti in Milan

Taste no. 15, which was rescheduled for the beginning of June, is canceled and postponed until the next ordinary dates for 2021 (13-15 March)

Moreover, in agreement with the indications expressed by the Chief Executive of Stazione Leopolda, Agostino Poletto, the BoD of Pitti Immagine acknowledged and agreed with the decision to postpone the first edition of Testo (the event dedicated to Italian publishing already rescheduled for the beginning of June) until the second half of February 2021.

“Over the last few weeks we have obviously been in constant and close contact with manufacturing companies in Italy and abroad” says Claudio Marenzi, President of Pitti Immagine “as well as with other actors operating in the three textile-fashion sectors, including organizations like Confindustria Moda and Camera della Moda Italiana.  The strong request that emerged was to maintain at all costs the leading rendezvous like the Pitti fairs which will be the first fundamental instruments to be activated in order to gradually get the entire commercial fashion industry machine going again. And that is what we will be working on non-stop over the next few months. Postponing Taste and Testo to 2021, two events in which our Group has a lot of faith, was a very painful but necessary decision. The objective conditions do not exist for organizing those sort of rendezvous in June, as has already been demonstrated everywhere else”.