Textiles

Moda Italia 2026 February Edition: the Italian Fashion exhibition in Japan closes successfully with solid results

The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ICCJ) successfully concluded the second edition of The NIC (New Italian Cool) Award on 14 November 2025, in Tokyo.

During World Expo Osaka 2025, the French cultural organization lille3000 is holding an exhibition around innovative textiles and fashion with Yanmar in Nagai from 12 April until 31 July 2025.

EXPO Osaka Special: During World Expo Osaka 2025, the French cultural organization lille3000 will hold an exhibition built around innovative textiles and fashion with Yanmar in Nagai Park, echoing the French Pavilion, from 12 April to 31 July 2025.

On 11-15 March 2024, the Admantex2i project organized it’s third and last country mission, bringing a delegation of 22 European participants to Japan, for a week of industrial visits, business meetings and participation in the Smart Manufacturing Summit 2024, in order to identify potential business and technological innovation opportunities.

The European partnership EU-Alliance organises a mission in Japan in March 2023, for European SMEs whose activities are related to technical textiles, connectivity, advanced technologies, and advanced materials, for dual-use applications in the security and defence markets.

SOCKSSS is a young Swedish company specialized in the fashion of socks. Whereas many larger companies failed in Japan, SOCKSSS already makes 5-7% of their turnover in Japan and their made in Japan style socks amount for 20% of their global turnover.

On the occasion of the leading international trade fair for technical textiles and non-wovens TechTextil and the International Conference for Smart Textiles InMotion, the Enterprise Europe Network is organising an international brokerage event “Technical & Smart Textile”.