Japan’s manufacturing sector headline PMI rose slightly to 48.7 in November from October’s 48.2, marking a fifth consecutive month of contraction, though the downturn was the mildest since August, according to the latest S&P Global survey. It remained under pressure as weak demand continued to curb new orders.

Manufacturers reported softer declines in output, with some firms increasing production in anticipation of stronger future demand. Consumer goods producers saw a marginal improvement, while operating conditions remained weak in intermediate and investment goods categories.

Japan’s manufacturing PMI edged up to 48.7 in November from 48.2, marking a fifth month of contraction but the mildest decline since August.
Weak demand and falling new orders persisted, though output softened and employment rose slightly.
Input costs increased at the fastest pace since June, prompting higher selling prices.
Business confidence reached a 10-month high as firms anticipated recovery.

New business continued to fall solidly amid sluggish global conditions, tighter customer budgets, and reduced capital investment. Export orders also declined, albeit at a modest pace, S&P Global said in a press release.

Cost pressures intensified, with input prices rising at the fastest rate since June, driven by increased staffing and raw material expenses. Firms raised selling prices again at a solid pace to offset cost burdens.

Purchasing activity and inventories fell further as companies adjusted to subdued demand. Stocks of purchased items declined at the steepest rate in five years, while delivery times lengthened for a fifteenth straight month due to supplier shortages.

Employment saw a slight uptick—the fastest increase in three months—as firms filled vacancies and prepared for planned expansions and upcoming retirements. Backlogs of work continued to decline for the 38^th consecutive month.

Despite persistent weakness in current conditions, business confidence improved to a ten-month high, reflecting expectations of gradual recovery ahead.

“The latest PMI data showed that Japan’s manufacturing sector continued to struggle with weak demand conditions in November, with firms signalling another solid decline in overall new business. Reduced demand was reported across key markets across Asia, with weaker-than-expected sales across the automotive and semiconductor industries noted in particular,” said Annabel Fiddes, economics associate director at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

“Encouragingly, production fell at a slower and only marginal rate, which coincided with improved optimism around the year-ahead. Overall, business confidence rose to the highest level since the start of the year. Upbeat projections also supported a further rise in employment, as a number of firms anticipated a recovery in market demand over the course of 2026,” added Fiddes. “With Japan’s new prime minister recently announcing a substantial economic stimulus package – the biggest since the pandemic – it will be important to see how this impacts demand and the sector’s performance as the administration seeks to boost investment in key strategic areas such as AI.”

The survey indicated that Japanese factories were more upbeat about the 12-month outlook for output in November. Furthermore, the degree of optimism was the highest seen since January amid reports of new product launches and forecasts of stronger customer demand, added the release.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (SG)

THG Studios and British fashion brand Topshop have announced a landmark partnership to stage the world’s first AI-driven immersive, shoppable catwalk, certified by the World Record Certification Agency.

THG Studios and Topshop will host the world’s first AI-driven immersive, shoppable catwalk on February 26, 2026 in Manchester.
Supported by PayPal and Google Cloud, the ‘Runway to the Future’ merges physical and digital experiences, featuring instantly shoppable looks.
Timed between London Fashion Week and the BRIT Awards, the event brings together leaders in fashion, retail, tech and culture.

The ‘Runway to the Future’ event will take place on February 26, 2026, at THG Studios’ state-of-the-art Manchester facility, supported by headline sponsor PayPal and technology partner Google Cloud.

Strategically positioned between London Fashion Week and the BRIT Awards, the show aims to establish a new global benchmark for fashion experiences while spotlighting the North West’s growing role in the UK creative economy. Topshop has been confirmed as the fashion house leading the production, underscoring its renewed momentum in British fashion, THG Ingenuity said in a release.

“The world’s first AI-driven immersive, shoppable catwalk is more than a runway, it’s a reimagining of fashion’s future, where creativity meets technology and culture. We’re excited to be part of a movement that’s redefining how fashion is experienced, shared and shopped, and to be leading this new era from the heart of Manchester,” Moses Rashid, global marketing director, Topshop & Topman, said.

Designed as an interactive journey, the runway merges physical and digital environments through Google Cloud’s immersive and shoppable technology. Attendees will move through a series of futuristic zones showcasing AI-generated models, real-time fulfilment innovations and instantly shoppable looks, turning every moment into a point of discovery and engagement.

Curated for an exclusive guest list of top creators, industry leaders and cultural influencers, the event aims to spark new dialogue at the intersection of retail, technology and creativity. THG Studios plans to reveal additional partners in the coming months, positioning ‘Runway to the Future’ as a must-attend moment on the global fashion calendar.

“In collaboration with a global leader in digital payments PayPal, we are creating a new global benchmark for fashion experiences, fusing physical and digital to build connections that matter. The future of fashion is being designed right here in Manchester, and this event is a testament to the creative and technological power of the North, proving that innovation is thriving outside traditional capitals,” Hannah Pym, chief brand and marketing officer, THG Ingenuity, added.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (HU)

From January 17 to 19, 2026, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE and INTERFILIÈRE PARIS invite all French and international buyers to a new edition rich in creative and business meetings, conferences and fashion shows to decipher trends, and new focuses to inspire the industry.

Global leaders in the lingerie, loungewear, swimwear, activewear, and intimate apparel markets, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE and INTERFILIÈRE PARIS embody a new era. Within Room 0126, the unified space conceived by WSN, their reach expands: presented alongside Who’s Next, Bijorhca, and Shoppe Object Paris in Hall 7, they become the intimate apparel hub of an event encompassing all creative industries. This simultaneous presentation of upstream and downstream products, unique in the world, now engages with ready-to-wear, accessories, jewellery, design, and sourcing, offering buyers a comprehensive view of collections, materials, and uses. Located at the heart of this ecosystem, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE and INTERFILIÈRE PARIS offer a reinvented event, highly inspiring and resolutely focused on the future.

The Salon International De La Lingerie and Interfilière Paris will run from January 17-19, 2026, offering a unified platform for lingerie, swimwear, activewear, materials, and sourcing.
The shows feature trend forums, expert talks, fitting rooms, guided tours, and five new fashion shows built around natural sensuality and radiant adornment.

This unified time and place allows professionals to enjoy a comprehensive experience: observing textile innovations, discovering the resulting collections, and forging new collaborations. Suppliers of materials and accessories, as well as lace makers, engage in dialogue with designers, creating a
synergy essential to the industry’s dynamism. These key events offer a holistic view of a market where renewal, boldness, commitment, and resilience are paramount.

The clean and elegant scenography complements an enriched program where talks, conferences, roundtables, and masterclasses explore the industry’s transformations. Inspiration and foresight combine to decipher the challenges of rapidly changing markets.

THE SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE, AN UNMISSABLE EVENT

A true driving force in the sector and an ambassador of change, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE brings together established brands, industry leaders, emerging labels, and exceptional designers from around the world. A major attraction for all international buyers, the Show welcomes department stores, concept stores, independent lingerie and swimwear boutiques, and more, all seeking new products and valuable connections.

Beyond its rich and creative offerings, the SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE champions inclusion and diversity to encourage and support emerging and committed sectors. This vision is reflected in a program full of inspiring content, featuring exclusive shows, opportunities to meet the key players transforming the industry, and a spotlight on responsible trends and innovations shaping its future.

The Lingerie Shop: le concept store de l’intime

The Lingerie Shop redefines the trade show experience. Conceived as a life-size trend laboratory, this space showcases the season’s gems and essentials through innovative scenography. It offers retailers a dual perspective: an editorial selection of key pieces and merchandising tailored to evolving consumer expectations. This expert curation allows for an instant understanding of market dynamics and the identification of promising designs. An initiative that bridges the gap between
inspiration and market realities.

New feature: fitting rooms to try on and discover the pieces in fitting.

A complementary tailor-made service: Personalised guided tours are offered to all buyers. Accompanied by Vanessa Causse, trend forecaster for the International Lingerie Show, French and international buyers will benefit from a customised analysis of the collections on display, merchandising advice adapted to their type of point of sale, and an in-depth analysis of the season’s commercial trends.

5 brand new shows to discover

In collaboration with the Hermana agency, embodied by Caroline Lefrere, the fashion shows highlight the 2 major trends of the season and the must-have products of the show.

3 WINTER TREND FASHION SHOWS 26/27: everyday: Saturday, Sunday and Monday

2 THE SELECTION FASHION SHOWS – OUR SEASON’S FAVOURITES: Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

2 MAJOR TRENDS IN LIGHTING

Two major trends are emerging for the coming season, between an embrace of naturalness and a renewed radiance: EVERYDAY SENSUALITY & ADORNMENTS INSPIRATION

EVERYDAY SENSUALITY – Everyday sensuality reinvented

This trend explores an aesthetic where naturalness becomes sensual. It celebrates burnt earth tones, drawing from the palette of natural pigments: second-skin shades, organic beiges, and soft ochres that assert identity through colour. It unveils casual, everyday silhouettes, sculpted from textured, crafted, enveloping fabrics that gently embrace the body. Comfortable lingerie is imbued with an instinctive and confident sensuality. The materials speak of authenticity, a return to essentials, and unadorned beauty.

ADORNMENTS INSPIRATION – When colour becomes adornment

Color becomes ornamentation, highlighting and complementing the body’s curves. This trend affirms a desire for radiance, vitality, and energy through a luminous and vibrant palette. Fabrics play with transparency and reflections: precious silks, ethereal organzas, or sophisticated meshes. Lingerie becomes couture, and ornamental pieces take centre stage. Bodywear borrows from jewellery its ability to enhance, from clothing its sophistication and from art its aesthetic dimension.

A rich and creative offering

The SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA LINGERIE unveils the best of the international market: AMBASSADOR1867 – AUBADE PARIS – BESTFORM – COCO DE MER – DEREK ROSE – DIM – DKNY – DORINA – FILA – FLEUR OF ENGLAND – FREYA – GILSA PARIS – IROHA – KARMA ON THE ROCKS – L’ANGELIQUE – LASCANA – LAUREN RALPH LAUREN – LINGADORE – LISCA – LISE CHARMEL – LOUISA BRACQ – MAISON LEJABY – MARIE JO – MEY – NATURANA – NUEAME – PLUTO – SANS COMPLEXE – SARDA – SIMONE PERELE – SKARLETT BLUE – UBRAS – VARIANCE – WACOAL – ZIMMERLI OF
SWITZERLAND…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

The 2026 edition is particularly symbolic: CHANTELLE celebrates 150 years of French excellence, ANITA marks 140 years of German expertise, while EMPREINTE and LE CHAT each celebrate 80 years of know-how and creativity. These anniversaries testify to the enduring nature of an industry that spans decades by constantly reinventing itself.

THE WELLNESS CORNER

Nestled in the area dedicated to young creators, the wellness offering blends intimacy and beauty with the wellness brands AIA – CRAVE – HIGHONLOVE – IROHA – SOAK…

EXPOSED once again showcases its fashion vision. This intimate space brings together a carefully curated selection of brands that are redefining the aesthetics of intimacy, from emerging talents to established names. ADITI, AROMATIQUE, ATELIER AMOUR, CARVARO, DESMOND & DEMPSEY, ERNEST LEOTY, FLEUR OF ENGLAND, LALIDE A PARIS, LE BOUDOIR LOS ANGELES, MARIA LUCIA HOHAN, NETTE ROSE, ORGANIC BASICS, and RILKE create a creative landscape where lingerie is revealed with precision and personality.

INSPIRING CONFERENCES

Each day, a different theme and three expert talks.
A unique analysis of product, material, market, and societal trends.

INTERFILIÈRE PARIS UPSTREAM OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN, A DRIVER OF INNOVATION

In a context of profound transformation within the textile industry, INTERFILIERE PARIS remains the creative hub for networking and inspiration, providing forward-looking insights for all stakeholders in the sector. With its discerning selection of manufacturers of excellence, exceptional crafts that perpetuate centuries-old traditions, and innovative industries, the trade show brings together influential players in the Lingerie, Swimwear, Luxury & Sport markets.

A true driving force behind upcoming collections, it sets the trend forecast. The laces, embroideries, innovative fabrics, accessories, and new fibers on display shape creativity and influence tomorrow’s collections.

Attracting a renowned international audience—major accounts, leading retail chains, and leading luxury brands—INTERFILIÈRE PARIS reflects a constantly evolving market, driven by innovation and performance.

By bringing together all international players in a human-scale event, INTERFILIÈRE PARIS symbolizes the industry’s diverse strengths, resilient and determined to shape the future.

Located in Hall 7.2 of the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center, INTERFILIÈRE PARIS and the SOURCING & SOLUTIONS route invite visitors to an immersive experience focused on inspiration, synergy, innovation, and networking. Designed for both exhibiting brands and visitors, it connects, in a single space, all the stages that fuel creation.

An Interfilière Paris and Sourcing & Solutions Trends Forum

This trend forum offers immersive experiences dedicated to creation and exchange. This inspiring space showcases innovative tools where forward-thinking vision meets concrete solutions for imagining the collections of tomorrow. It highlights Nelly Rodi’s analysis of material trends.

Personalized tours of the trend forum are available by appointment. Visitors benefit from a tailored analysis of the four 2027 material trends, an in-depth look at textile innovations, and guidance in selecting the materials best suited to their creative and commercial needs. A premium service that transforms inspiration into concrete business opportunities.

THE MATERIALS LIBRARY

The materials library is designed as a place of inspiration and networking to stimulate and bring creative projects to life. This comprehensive and attractive space for professionals showcases the rich and complementary product ranges of all the exhibitors at INTERFILIÈRE PARIS and SOURCING & SOLUTIONS. The challenge is to offer a living and sensory tool and a pragmatic database to materialize today’s projects for tomorrow’s challenges.

Decoding material trends by Nelly Rodi

At a time when pace is accelerating and sensibilities are fragmenting, design is exploring new avenues: a return to nature, a fascination with technology, a quest for symbolic meaning, and a need for gentleness. In a world where everything sometimes seems ephemeral, materials, textures, and finishes become vehicles for emotion as much as for style. The artisanal gesture is regaining essential value: precise braiding, subtle pleating, gilded finishes, and delicate embroidery. Simultaneously, technical innovations invite us to rethink our relationship with the body: intelligent knits, thermoformed volumes, breathable perforations, and modular structures.

HONORATION – Natural beauty enhanced by exceptional craftsmanship

Honoration celebrates nature magnified by the expert hand: linen, raffia, and plant fibers become precious through braiding, fringes, and organic draping. Between fluidity, transparency, and sculpted details, the silhouette reveals a powerful yet delicate femininity. Golden tones and patinated textures evoke a calm and timeless luxury, connecting ready-to-wear, lingerie, and jewelry in a radiant sophistication. It celebrates the authenticity of materials and the beauty of craftsmanship, in an era where the return to nature is accompanied by a desire for transcendence.

Four trends complement and respond to one another. These trends interact across ready-to-wear, lingerie, and jewelry. Connections emerge between textiles and metal, technology and raw materials, emotion and innovation. Each product category draws inspiration from the others, creating a cohesive and comprehensive aesthetic language.

RE-COMPOSITION – Sensitive innovation: active and modular materials

Re-composition explores a future where technology becomes aesthetics: 3D materials, perforated surfaces, thermoformed volumes, and sculpted jerseys create an urban, modular, and breathable wardrobe. Kinetic jewelry, modular structures, and 3D prints extend this momentum. Technical colors and functional finishes compose an agile, tactile, and human innovation, connecting ready-to wear, lingerie, and accessories. A design vision where the object accompanies, supports, and inspires.

INVOCATION – Raw magic: symbols and patinated materials

Invocation draws on mysteries and shapes an intuitive and sensual aesthetic. Patinated textiles imbued with stories, theatrical brocades, and organic forms. Talismanic jewelry, hypnotic transparencies, and dreamlike motifs evoke a fantastical nature. Between shadows, metallic glints, and deep hues, this trend seeks not perfection but intensity—the energy of a gesture, the trace of time, the power of a pattern. It invites us to reconnect with instinct and the emotional power of materials.

AFFECTION – A summer of nostalgic sweetness

Affection celebrates a regressive and luminous sweetness: soothing colors, reimagined pajama stripes, Provençal flowers, and velvety textures sketch a fresh and joyful baby-doll femininity. 3D floral volumes, playful patterns, and openwork knits nurture a tender narrative. Hybrid laces, delicate pastels, colorful denims, and contrasting topstitching compose a sensitive and light summer, where material and color become emotions. A tender and optimistic aesthetic that cultivates emotional connection.

Key exhibitors at Interfilière Paris

ACETECH, APUT, ART MARTIN, BISCHOFF, BRODERIES LEVEAUX – POTENCIER BRODERIES, BUGIS, CHUETSU LACE, CINTAS MARTELL, EMBREX LTD, ENCAJES, GAYOU LACE, GROBELASTIC SA, HAEMMERLE & VOGEL, ILUNA, JEAN BRACQ, LES TISSAGES PERRIN, NOYON LANKA, PRETTY SUN ; PRYM INTIMATES, SANKO TEKSTIL, SOPHIE HALLETTE, SUGARCUP, UNOELLE, WILLY HERMANN, YUHUAJU INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD, ZHEN RONG TEXTILE & GARMENT…

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Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KD)