German firm Messe Frankfurt restructures Texpertise Network

Messe Frankfurt, a German trade fair organiser, has announced a number of personnel changes at Texpertise Network, a platform that helps the company lead the market in events for apparel fabrics, fashion, home textiles, technical textiles and textile processing. The newly appointed members will report to Olaf Schmidt, vice president textiles and textile technologies.

 

Messe Frankfurt, a German trade fair organiser, has announced personnel changes at Texpertise Network, a platform that helps the company lead the market in events for apparel fabrics, fashion, home textiles, technical textiles and textile processing. The newly appointed members will report to Olaf Schmidt, vice president textiles and textile technologies.#

The Frankfurt Fashion Week has been enriching Messe Frankfurt’s portfolio of textile events since the announcement in May 2020. Due to the pandemic, the first edition in July 2021 was held digitally as the FFW Studio. The event was organised by Frankfurt Fashion Week’s director Dr Hendrik Müller-Giegler, who took over this position in June 2021 from Ricarda Quehl, who is currently on maternity leave, according to the trade fair organising firm. With managerial and international marketing experience in the media and entertainment industry, Müller-Giegler joined Messe Frankfurt as marketing communications director in the entertainment, media and creative industries business unit in 2018.

 

Messe Frankfurt, a German trade fair organiser, has announced personnel changes at Texpertise Network, a platform that helps the company lead the market in events for apparel fabrics, fashion, home textiles, technical textiles and textile processing. The newly appointed members will report to Olaf Schmidt, vice president textiles and textile technologies.#

“A major role in the development of the Frankfurt Fashion Week has also been played by Claudia Franz, who has extensive experience of the international fashion and textile sector and has been with Messe Frankfurt as director of brand management, interior and contract textiles and apparel fabrics and fashion, since 2019. She is currently involved in the launch of the new quality mainstream fashion fair, Val:ue, and a supplementary downstream event, Apparel Sourcing in Fashion, both of which will be held in association with the Frankfurt Fashion Week,” Messe Frankfurt said in a statement.

 

Messe Frankfurt, a German trade fair organiser, has announced personnel changes at Texpertise Network, a platform that helps the company lead the market in events for apparel fabrics, fashion, home textiles, technical textiles and textile processing. The newly appointed members will report to Olaf Schmidt, vice president textiles and textile technologies.#

Two other changes have been made followed by the resignation of Thimo Schwenzfeier who left the company on October 31, 2021. He was followed in the position of Neonyt show director by Bettina Bär who has worked for Messe Frankfurt in a variety of positions in the consumer-goods fairs division since 2012, most recently as Tendence show director. Additionally, Bär has been appointed co-director of the new fashion fair, Val:ue, which makes its debut during the Frankfurt Fashion Week in January 2022 and is set to be the corner stone of the quality and mainstream fashion segment.

 

Messe Frankfurt, a German trade fair organiser, has announced personnel changes at Texpertise Network, a platform that helps the company lead the market in events for apparel fabrics, fashion, home textiles, technical textiles and textile processing. The newly appointed members will report to Olaf Schmidt, vice president textiles and textile technologies.#

“The marketing communication department has been headed by Ivonne Seifert since October 1, 2021. Accordingly, she is now in charge of marketing communication for the leading international trade fairs, Heimtextil, Techtextil and Texprocess, and the Neonyt and Val:ue fashion fairs, as well as the communication activities for the international Texpertise Network,” the company further added.