Igedo

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Igedo (now Igedo Company GmbH & Co. KG) is a trade fair organizer based in Düsseldorf that has specialized in fashion fairs since 1949 . Igedo is an acronym and stands for "women's clothing interest group". The event, previously known as “Düsseldorf Sales and Fashion Week” and “Igedo Fashion Fairs”, was at times the largest of its kind in the world. The largest trade fair organized by the Igedo Company was most recently the "Collection Première Düsseldorf" (CPD) with around 30,000 trade visitors in 2009. The new trade fair format was "The Gallery Düsseldorf" in July 2012 in the former Consulate General of the United States in Düsseldorf Begin.

history

Aerial photo of the Igedo exhibition site in and around the courtyard of honor in Düsseldorf , 1953

Several German textile manufacturers, including Uli Richter , merged under this name after the Second World War. As a consequence of the isolated position of Berlin they shifted the focus of their work to West Germany and began using the concept of Mustermesse with conducting fashion shows and sales exhibitions under the name "Igedo" in Dusseldorf.

The history of Igedo began in March 1949 with a street fashion show on Königsallee . In the same year there was the first Igedo fashion fair in the courtyard ; it was also the first fashion trade fair in the world. Among other things, thanks to the long-time chairman and director Gustav Adolf Baum , who worked for Igedo from 1954 to 1981, it grew into what was then the largest fashion store in the world. Since 1982, the trade fairs have no longer been held under the previous name, but as the "Collection Première Düsseldorf" (CPD). In 2012, the last fair was held under this name on the grounds of Messe Dusseldorf place while the focus of exhibitions and orders (English: purchase order ) scattered around since the 1990s in various, in the urban area of Dusseldorf, partly operated year round Order - and exhibition rooms, especially those on Kaiserswerther Strasse , Cecilienallee and in Medienhafen . After a brief interruption, players in the fashion industry agreed that instead of a spatially concentrated trade fair, the “order days” in Düsseldorf would now only be held in scattered trade fair, exhibition and order rooms - starting with the events for the 2013/14 autumn-winter season in February 2013 - under the well-known umbrella brand "CPD" or "Collection Première Düsseldorf". In addition to the order days that take place twice a year in Düsseldorf, the company has also been holding fashion fairs abroad, for example in Moscow, for a number of years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AUMA trade fair database, accessed on February 3, 2010
  2. Jump up ↑ Yes, the West is right , article from January 12, 1950 in DER SPIEGEL magazine (2/1950), accessed on the spiegel.de portal on July 25, 2012
  3. ^ B. Haunfelder: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Land und Menschen, 1946-2006, A biographical manual, Münster 2006, p. 52
  4. ↑ Angela Delonge: Düsseldorf asserts itself as a fashion city . Article from February 2, 2013 in the portal aachener-zeitung.de , accessed on February 2, 2013
  5. ↑ Nicole Lange: The fashion industry expects a lot of buyers . Article from February 2, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on February 2, 2013