September 3rd finalized the business session for the Spring-Summer 2022 season of the largest trade fair of fashion clothes and accessories for Eastern Europe and Central Asia CPM – Collection Premiere Moscow. CPM brought together 500 producing companies, presenting 650 fashion brands from 20 countries, as well as 12 887 visitors – buyers, producers, designers, and other players of the fashion industry. Collections of the Spring-Summer 2022 season from Italy, Germany, France, and Turkey were introduced to professional buyers, owing to strategic support of national dedicated associations of the fashion industry: Ente Moda Italia (EMI), German Fashion Modeverband Deutschland e.V., Federation Francaise du Pret a Porter Feminin, ‘Istanbul Apparel Exporters’ Association (IHKIB) and Russian association of the fashion industry (RAFI). The exhibition participants started this new season with a recovering market. The current situation offered companies from Russia and the neighboring countries a very good opportunity to increase the number of clients and business partners, and judging by the results, they have succeeded in this. The number of local exhibitors grew along with the main indicator, the number of specialists who visited CPM. With recovering air travel between Russia and Europe, there is a growing number of international participants: the largest pavilions were taken by brands from Turkey, Germany, and Italy, it is worth mentioning that France, Greece, Denmark and other countries were also quite active».
