For gift retailers looking for the hottest new trends and products across Gift, Home, Fashion, Craft, Greetings & Stationery, Play and Wellbeing, Top Drawer’s Autumn/Winter edition will be raising the bar when it opens its doors at London’s Olympia from September 9-11.
“Top Drawer refreshes its offering every season by incorporating new concepts and segments,” highlights Alejandra Campos, event director at Clarion Events. “It embraces trends including lifestyle, homewares, fashion and global market developments, presenting brands that inspire while offering commercial appeal. Top Drawer has become the chosen platform for leading design-led brands to showcase their new collections. From independent shops and concept stores to museums, department stores and online retailers, each edition attracts the most successful retailers from the UK and overseas.”
Adds Alejandra: “The launch of new initiatives across the show, together with our well-established new talent area, SPOTTED, is part of our commitment to promote and support start-ups and new designers – the young entrepreneurs of today are the elite of tomorrow.”
The show will present a stellar line-up of leading brands and new names, with buyers able to preview a unique selection of curated and commercially design-led new products from over 1000 brands.
In Gifts, among the leading brands will be Bombay Duck, Caroline Gardner, Cubic and Kate Spade, with new names including Seedlip, SoL Cups, Mindful Bites and Keep Me Keepers. International newcomers include Pieskot, About Blanks and Lil’Ledy.
Home fragrancing products, along with luxury beauty and grooming, will be showcased in Wellbeing, with brands including Ashleigh & Burwood, Charles Farris and The Harrogate Candle Company.
The Food Emporium will be returning for a second year at Top Drawer Autumn/Winter, showcasing an exclusive edit of giftable food and drink from artisans, producers and brands to include Ace Tea London, Chief Chocolate Officer and Spice Kitchen.
Meanwhile, brand new this September is a fresh new destination at the show, PLAY, which will be launching for the first time at Top Drawer. The sector will feature leading brands and new designers from the children’s sector, while offering buyers a design-led edit spanning accessories, fashion, toys and home décor.
As a major new destination in the industry, PLAY has been created in response to changes in the retail landscape, reflecting the dynamism, growth and diversity of the children’s sector. Names already confirmed include Inch Blue, Petit Jour Paris, Blade & Rose, Le Toy Van and Little Bird Told Me.
Registration is now open at topdrawer.co.uk
Top: Nkuku will be among the exhibitors at Top Drawer this September.
