WHy Visit?
APLF Exhibitions For Fashion Brands and Designers
Offering a comprehensive range of resources essential for your creative needs, APLF exhibitions provide everything from finished leather to exotic materials like crocodile and snake skins, as well as components for bags and shoes. It serves as a one-stop platform for effortlessly sourcing all the materials required for your design projects.
We help fashion brands accelerate their journey to total sustainability. Our exhibitions enable buyers to prescreen sustainable material suppliers, making it easier to find materials certified by standards such as LWG, GRS, and REACH. We also connect you with manufacturers that have implemented robust ESG practices.
Whether you are seeking an OEM to produce your designs, or an ODM for ready-to-brand products, Fashion Access is your gateway to discover the perfect manufacturing partners. Infuse your brand identity into top-quality goods and unleash your creativity through strong collaborations.
The Color and Material Trends Space serves as a valuable resource for designers by providing a curated showcase of key color and material themes for the upcoming season. Designers can gain insight into the latest trends through a selection of Leather / Materials / Fashion samples sourced from the newest collections of participating APLF exhibitors.
APLF Exhibitions For Manufacturers
Total material sourcing for footwear, leathergoods, furniture and auto upholstery manufacturers.
Footwear and bag factories can discover all types of leather for various applications at APLF Leather. Additionally, at Materials+, you can find non-leather materials, including synthetics, linings, and sustainable options with specific certifications to meet your production needs.
At Materials+, you can discover a wide range of fashion hardware, including metal parts and decorative accessories. Explore footwear components such as shoe uppers, soles, welting materials, and shoelaces, as well as essential manufacturing supplies like threads, trims, and dyes.
Discover the latest manufacturing innovations and solutions designed to boost your factory’s production rate.
For automotive and furniture brands, there’s no better place than APLF exhibitions to connect with your Tier 2 material suppliers. Discover a wide range of options, from wetblue and crust leather to synthetics for upholstering car seats and furniture.
APLF Exhibitions For Tanners
Explore the leather supply chain at APLF Leather, the pinnacle three-day event for the tanning and leather industry.
APLF offers one stop sourcing. It covers the leather supply chain from raw, crust to finished leathers, chemicals, dyes, tanning machinery, designers and support services.
800+ exhibitors, 20 national pavilions and 12,000+ visitors all in one place to foster networking and collaboration.
APLF has been the platform for sourcing hides/skins and wetblue. For 40+ years, tanners from all over the world gather at APLF, discuss prices and make order with traders from Americas, Australia, Europe and Asia for their yearly production.
Explore sustainable chemicals, cutting-edge tanning, finishing and cutting machinery, and release paper for the upcoming trends at APLF to enhance the quality, durability, and style of your leather.
Hailed as the most important and international exhibition for the tanning industry, participating in APLF offers a valuable opportunity to gain essential competitive insights into the latest regulatory updates, product innovations, pricing strategies, and market positions.
” In this exhibition, I saw a lot of leather that I had never seen before, including environmentally friendly leathers or leathers of different animal sources. I will continue to come to APLF, even without organiser’s invitation. “
ADANG ZHENG
FOOTWEAR DIRECTOR OF KOLON SPORT
” The exhibition effectively showcased global leather trends and innovations, allowing attendees to gain a comprehensive understanding of the industry’s current landscape in just a couple of days.”
LEGEND LIU
SENIOR SOURCING MANAGER – MATERIALS OF UNDER ARMOUR
“I am very pleased with APLF, as I found suppliers that align perfectly with the consumption preferences of today’s youth and the development direction of our company. “
SHOPIA
BRAND GENERAL MANAGER OF SATURDAY MODE
HUANG XUE QING
DIRECTOR & VICE PRESIDENT OF LANDBOND
Prestige Buyer Club
Unlock VIP Access to the Heart of Global Fashion Sourcing
Join the APLF’s Prestige Buyer Club and gain exclusive benefits, curated connections, and early access to the future of materials, leather, and fashion manufacturing.
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Trusted by Global Brands
Addang Zheng
Footwear Director of Kolon Sport
Suresh Kumar Jagan
Global Head of Materials, Clarks India Services
Vanessa Yao
President of ICICLE Accessory, China
Siripanya Prasopchok
Head of Business Development, Compliance, & Business Improvement of Adiantes, Thailand
Shopia
Brand General Manager of Saturday Mode
Legend Liu
Senior Sourcing Manager – Materials of Under Armour
