From 15 to 17 January Frankfurt welcomes 2,900 international exhibitors. New designs, technologies and trend focus curated by Alcova for the first time

The primary objective of a trade fair is to show, to make accessible thousands of products. Heimtextil has been doing this for years, but the next edition in January 2025 promises to be a real stage, a readable (and enjoyable) alphabet offurnishing textiles, from upholstery to curtains, from wallcoverings to technological and natural yarns, from contract to home furnishings.

Design and trends

The highlights of the fair, the first in its sector in terms of importance and strategic and cultural weight, closely concern design and trends. For the first time, Alcova, with Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima, will be in charge of the Heeimtextil Trend 25/26 selection. And designer Patricia Urquiola will stage the contemporary textile in the installation ‘Among us’, an immersive and sustainable textile&hospitality project.

Specific targets and important synergies

‘Despite the difficult market situation, Heimtextil is a solid and reliable platform for the global industry and offers retailers,industry and contract business solutions for sustainable business success. For 2025, we will expand our product range for specific target groups, create important synergies and look forward to welcoming many new and returning exhibitors. Heimtextil 2025 makes textile interior design more visible than ever before,' confirms Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles&Textile Technologies.

Textiles as a research drive

The partnership with Alcova covers one of the key parts of Heimtextil: trends. The work of Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima, founders of the Milan platform dedicated to organising one of the most popular FuoriSalone events of Milan Design Week, starts from a cultural perspective. Textiles as a drive for research, experimentation and technological innovation. But also as a historical and craft heritage capable of laying the foundations for uniting present and future, innovation and sustainability.

Future Continuos

The result is Future Continuos, an exhibition of the work and reflections of six international professionals. There will be designer Eugenia Morpurgo and Ilse Crawford, Salewa Innovation Manager Christine Landstätter, curator Jennifer Jefferis, Simone van der Burg and Lucas Evers, group leaders of WAAG Future Lab, and Dirk Vantyghem, Managing Director of Euratex.

Connected by textiles

Their words, collected in a series of interviews, build a portrait of the textile industry that embraces past and future. They no longer speak only of sustainability, but of regeneration, circularity, transparency and cultural heritage. Weaving and spinning are among the first ‘technological’ activities developed by man, the basis for mathematical and architectural culture. For millennia, they have been a vehicle for telling the story of cultural heritage, a form of exchange and communication between peoples and their roots. In this context, the textile industry benefits from a heritage that is an engine for the future. This is the conviction of Heimtextil 2025. Which in fact has chosen ‘Connected by textiles’ as its pay-off. It will be an edition not to be missed and you can buy tickets online by clicking here.