New York – It’s party time in The Big Apple again!
September New York Home Fashions Market will welcome industry members back to the city with a celebration that honors outstanding achievement and supports the next generation of home textiles innovators.
The Home Fashions Product Association (HFPA) and HTT are joining forces to co-host the event, which will take place at the Harvard Club of New York City on the evening of on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
The HFPA Foundation is fundraising to support its scholarship program, which provides scholarships to students enrolled in surface design or home product marketing courses of study at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
HTT is celebrating the in-person return of its annual Trailblazers & Titans awards, which will honor two retail companies and two supplier companies. Previous honorees include Bloomingdale’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Big Lots, Boll & Branch, Casper, Malouf, Revman, Trident, Pegasus, Wayfair, Welspun and WestPoint Home.
The lively two-hour evening event will include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, the introduction of FIT’s home fashions program students and the presentation of HTT’s 2022 Trailblazers & Titans honorees.
Ticket information and the identities of this year’s Trailblazers & Titans honorees will be announced soon. All ticket sales will benefit the HFPA Foundation’s scholarship program.
Intellifresh powered by SILVADUR antimicrobial technology is the headline sponsor of the HFPA fundraiser at the Harvard Club of New York City. Sponsors for the HTT Trailblazers & Titans awards include Supima, Cotton Incorporated and 230 Fifth Avenue.
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New York – Tick tock. It’s time to get moving on prep for New York Home Fashions Market.
New product introductions are eligible to receive coverage in HTT’s print and online coverage in advance of and during market week, which is taking place from Sept. 19-22.
DEADLINE is Wednesday, Aug. 31.
To be included in our coverage, please send the following:
Submit your new product images and information by email to https://forms.pbmbrands.com/home-textiles-today/forms/NYMarket_Submissions_Fall_2022/
- A brief written summary of your newest product introductions launching at the markets along with LOCATION information about where they will be shown.
- One or two high-res images of your new products WITH a written description of the product featured in each image sent. (*Please see specifications below)
- Your name and contact information (email and phone, please)
*Digital image requirements: Images should be at least 3-by-5 inches at 300 dpi (900-by-1,500 pixels), and preferably not larger than 8-by-10 inches (2,400-by- 3,000 pixels). We can ONLY accept images in the following formats: .JPG .TIFF .PSD and .EPS BUT we HIGHLY RECOMMEND sending your images in JPEG format, provided they conform to the specifications above. (This will reduce attachment sizes, making your email easier to send and receive.)
If you have questions, please contact HTT editor-in-chief Jennifer Marks at [email protected]
Related news:
New York Market directory plots permanent and temporary home textiles showrooms
HFPA’s market week dates for 2022, 2023
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New York – Now is the time to think about coverage for your New York Home Fashions Market introductions and highlighted product.
New introductions are eligible to receive coverage in HTT’s print and online coverage in advance and during market week, which is taking place from Sept. 19-22.
DEADLINE is Wednesday, Aug. 31.
To be included in our coverage, please send the following:
- A brief written summary of your newest product introductions launching at the markets along with LOCATION information about where they will be shown.
- One or two high-res images of your new products WITH a written description of the product featured in each image sent. (*Please see specifications below)
- Your name and contact information (email and phone, please)
*Digital image requirements: Images should be at least 3-by-5 inches at 300 dpi (900-by-1,500 pixels), and preferably not larger than 8-by-10 inches (2,400-by- 3,000 pixels). We can ONLY accept images in the following formats: .JPG .TIFF .PSD and .EPS BUT we HIGHLY RECOMMEND sending your images in JPEG format, provided they conform to the specifications above. (This will reduce attachment sizes, making your email easier to send and receive.)
Submit your new product images and information by email to https://forms.pbmbrands.com/home-textiles-today/forms/NYMarket_Submissions_Fall_2022/
If you have questions, please contact HTT editor-in-chief Jennifer Marks at [email protected]
Related news:
New York Market directory plots permanent and temporary home textiles showrooms
]]>New York – For the first time since 2019, HTT will be hosting its Trailblazers & Titans awards party in person during September market.
The 4th annual market week event will honor legendary icons and innovative newcomers in the home textiles industry. Titans are retailers and suppliers that forged a new path or set new standards for the industry. Trailblazers are retailers and suppliers that are disrupting the status quo today.
The 4th annual Trailblazers & Titans event will honor two retailers and two suppliers.
The two-hour cocktail reception, during which the honorees will be presented, will feature heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar. It will take place at Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the Prince George Ballroom (15 E. 27th St., between 5th and Madison) beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Our previous retail honorees have included Bloomingdale’s, Big Lots, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wayfair, Boll & Branch and Casper. Our previous supplier honorees have included Revman, Trident, WestPoint Home, Pegasus Home Fashions, Malouf and Welspun.
2022 winners will be announced soon and tickets, which are $99 per person, will go on sale subsequently.
Related news:
New York Market directory plots permanent and temporary home textiles showrooms
]]>New York – New York Home Fashions market is less than 10 weeks away, and HTT is updating its online showroom directory.
Launched last spring, the Online Industry Directory includes vendors with showrooms in New York, vendors that are booking hotel or other one-times spaces and vendors who will once again be conducting virtual-only market appointments.
In addition, suppliers showing in HTT’s Pop-Up Show on 27th Street just off Fifth Avenue will be included for the fall New York Home Fashions Market, which will take place from Sept. 19-22.
The directory also includes enhanced content with additional company information and new product showcases for companies that want to upgrade their listings.
Access to the directory is free and requires a one-time registration to enter.
If you would like to have your company added to the directory, contact HTT editor-in-chief Jennifer Marks at [email protected].
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New York – Suppliers are nailing down their plans for September market, some moving into new spaces and others planning temps.
HTT continues to update the Home Textiles Supplier Directory it launched last spring. The Online Industry Directory includes vendors with showrooms in New York and vendors who are booking hotel or other one-times spaces as well as those who will once again be conducting virtual-only market appointments.
In addition, suppliers showing in HTT’s Pop-Up Show on 27th Street just off Fifth Avenue will be included for the fall New York Home Fashions Market, which will take place from Sept. 19-22.
The directory also includes enhanced listings with additional company information and new product showcases.
Access to the directory is free and requires a one-time registration to enter.
If you would like to have your company added to the directory, contact HTT editor-in-chief Jennifer Marks at [email protected].
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For the first time in a very long time, big pencil retailers turned out in person for home textiles market. And for the first time since fall 2019, a good number of showrooms opened their doors for face[1]to-face appointments.
Although more suppliers rolled out the welcome mat for spring market than had done so during the tentative fall 2021 market, most expected a heavy schedule of virtual appointments. Several con[1]fessed they’d had no intention of freshening up their spaces. Others had not planned to come into the city at all. But around March 7, retailers started ringing them up for in-person visits, so vendors sprang into action.
When all was said and done, all but four major retailers sent at least a few buyers to the New York Home Fashions Market, even if they didn’t bring the full battalion.
RELATED: 230 5th Avenue touts boffo market week traffic
The spring New York Home Fashions Markets arrived at an apt moment. After nearly 18 months of scrambling to find enough inventory to slap onto shelves and feed the explosion of e-commerce orders, suppliers and retailers are in a position to consider what suits consumers’ needs and wants as the country transitions from pandemic to endemic mode. Focus is shifting from “What can you deliver right now?” to “What white spaces do we need to address?”
New products have always been the bread and butter of market week, but this time around suppliers were pushing NEWNESS – with an exclamation point.
Buyers weren’t the only ones pounding the pavement. Several companies that are currently without showroom space were making the rounds to check out real estate along 5th Avenue. Some were showing in temp spaces; others came in to just get a sense of the market.
While it would be foolhardy to bet that fall market will mark a complete return to the pre-pandemic order, there was a sense last month that home textiles market is moving toward a new normal.
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Most of them came, many of them bought and just about everybody had a tough time trying to conquer last month’s New York home textiles market week.
There’s no disputing the fact that it was the best, most normal – or maybe least abnormal – and generally welcome market the industry has seen since BC (before Covid). Then again, the bar was pretty low given the overall weirdness of trying to do business during a global pandemic. On the one hand, business was about as good as it has been for most people’s business life[1]times with the surge of spending on products for homes at record levels. On the other hand, there were outrageous increased costs for just about everything you need to make textiles and a business largely executed in Hollywood Squares-style on the closest screen you could find.
So, the return to a largely in-person market event was a genuine relief. Not only were we all able to shake hands, give the occasional friendly hug and even see each other’s faces sans masks, but there was the physical experience of touching products in real time rather than virtually. If you said your new item had a terrific hand, you better not have been making it up because now we could find out in person.
But there were twin palls hanging over the New York Home Fashions Market, to be sure. First, there was the geography issue. Many showrooms were not quite where they used to be and finding your next appointment required not only the excellent HTT market directory (cheap plug, but hey, why not?) but also a compass, a Google Maps app and perhaps a Ouija board. Old habits die hard and new ones don’t come easy to all of us victims of this-is-the-way-we-did-it-last-time thinking.
More troubling was the surprising pessimism you heard once you got into serious conversations with many market attendees. As good as business has been, it appears it’s not that way now. One can make the argument that everyone is comparing 2022 to the outstanding past two years and is simply spoiled by how good the good times have been. This year will not be a repeat, but when you asked people if their numbers are still beating PC (pre-Covid) 2019 most said they are.
Nonetheless, the general weariness of dealing with cost pressures, supply chain meltdowns and trying to navigate sourcing in a world gone mad seems to have had a cumulative effect on some people. The roller coaster ride is not over.
So, it was that kind of market week in New York last month. There wasn’t a person there – at least not anybody I met – who wasn’t absolutely thrilled to be back. What’s next is another story entirely, but for now, it’s not bad at all.
]]>Aberdeen, N.J. – A cast of characters from the Marvel Universe feature in a new collection of colorful doorstoppers.
Part of Morgan Home Fashions’ The Draft Stop collection, the door stoppers are weighted with sand in a protective liner to ensure they remain in place. The stoppers include mink piping around the edges, a twisted loop carrying handle for easy transport and a red Marvel official sewn in loop label.
The stoppers feature vibrant pop art portraits of several Marvel Avengers characters individually and as a group. In addition to draft stoppers, the collection includes door stoppers shaped like lunch boxes.
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New York – KG Linens is spotlighting natural fibers, biodegradability and plant-based technology.
The manufacturer’s cotton-rich Eco Able sheet line is designed to deliver the comfort and durability of polyester with an improved end-of-life outcome. Certified ecologically responsible additives allow microbes to break down the poly component as they do with natural fiber, reducing the persistence of micro-plastic pollution in oceans. The 400-count sheets are also smooth, pill-resistant and moisture-wicking.
The company’s 100% cotton At Ease sheets are made with Enhance, a natural, plant-based technology, that resists wrinkles, pilling and shrinking. The technology allows for quick release of soil and quick dry. Also 400-count, the sheets are soft, breathable and moisture-wicking.
The Bay Street sheet collection is 300-count blend of Tencel and cotton that is certified compostable and biodegradable. The soft and silky bedding wicks moisture and is also wrinkle- and fade-resistant.
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