Los Angeles International Textile Show
The LA Textile Show at the California Market Center — fabrics, trims, print studios and production resources on the West Coast
The Los Angeles International Textile Show — sometimes referenced as the LA Textile Show — is one of the West Coast's premier destinations for textiles, textile design and production resources. Held at the California Market Center, it is the CMC's signature textile event, where thousands of designers get inspired by the latest color, design and textile trends.
The show presents over 200 premium collections and services from the US, UK, France, Italy, Turkey, Japan and other countries, alongside a jam-packed schedule of complimentary trend, color and fashion business seminars presented by top industry leaders. For designers and product developers working the Los Angeles garment industry, it is the sourcing trip that starts the season.
The Show, Its Home and Its Industry
What You Will Find on the Floor
The heart of the show is fabric: fabrics and leathers in luxe, casual, tailored, innovation and decor style categories, presented by mills and converters from around the world. Around the fabric collections sits everything a designer needs to turn cloth into product — creative trims, notions and accessories; print design studios and other art services; trend forecasting and color services; and embroidery, dyeing and production services.
The show also presents apparel design software, tech solutions, sourcing and manufacturing packages and much more. That breadth is deliberate: a textile show in Los Angeles serves an industry that designs, sources and sews within a few downtown miles, so the floor covers the whole path from a mill's new collection to a finished, produced garment.
Seminars: Trend, Color and the Business of Fashion
The Los Angeles International Textile Show hosts a full schedule of informational seminars and events presented by top industry leaders, and the trend, color and fashion business seminars are complimentary. For a designer, the seminar program does the work of a forecasting service visit and a business course inside the sourcing trip: the season's color and textile direction, explained by the people selling it, in the same building as the fabrics themselves.
If you are planning a visit, build the seminar sessions you need into the day first and work the floor around them — the collections will still be there between sessions, and the trend direction you hear in the morning is exactly what helps you read the fabric ranges in the afternoon.
The California Market Center
The show's home, the California Market Center, is a marketplace for fashion, gift and home located at the corner of Olympic and Main in downtown Los Angeles, where the CMC helps retailers redefine modern merchandising. Nowhere else can wholesale buyers find such a fresh array of goods: women's wear, men's wear, children's wear, toys, gifts, decorative accessories, furniture and decor, home textiles, garden accessories, stationery, footwear, fashion accessories and personal care products.
That unique blend of stylish goods across multiple product categories could only happen in California — the place with a reputation for where things start. A textile show staged inside a permanent wholesale mart also works differently from a convention-centre fair: the building's showrooms are part of the visit, and market weeks at the CMC layer the temporary exhibits on top of the resident collections.
More of Los Angeles Fashion on Apparel Search
The textile show is one door into the Los Angeles industry. Keep up with the market through Fashion News and the Los Angeles Fashion News directory; if you are building a career or a company here, see Los Angeles Fashion Schools and California Fashion Jobs. It is always a good time to learn more about LA fashion and the Los Angeles fashion industry.
Show dates, exhibitor lists and seminar schedules are set by the California Market Center and change from edition to edition, so confirm the current edition on the organizer's website, carried in References & Further Reading below, before travelling. Trade visitors planning the wider market week can also start from the Apparel Search Trade Show Directory.
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Common Questions
What is the Los Angeles International Textile Show?
It is a textile trade show held at the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles — the CMC's signature LA Intl Textile Show, and one of the West Coast's premier destinations for textiles, textile design and production resources. It is sometimes referenced as the LA Textile Show.
What can designers source at the LA Textile Show?
Over 200 premium collections and services from the US, UK, France, Italy, Turkey, Japan and other countries: fabrics and leathers in luxe, casual, tailored, innovation and decor categories, trims, notions and accessories, print design studios, trend forecasting and color services, embroidery, dyeing and production services, design software and sourcing and manufacturing packages.
Where is the show held?
At the California Market Center (CMC), the fashion, gift and home marketplace at the corner of Olympic and Main in downtown Los Angeles. The CMC's wholesale showrooms span women's, men's and children's wear, gifts, home textiles, footwear and fashion accessories alongside the textile show.