May 6

Robert Kalinkin selected for ORIGIN fair by NJAL

Great news - Robert Kalinkin Fashion House is going to participate at ORIGIN PASSION & BELIEFS fair which presents 100 hand selected fashion designers from around the world.

Fiera di Vicenza (FdV), the leading organiser of trade shows and events has partnered with NOT JUST A LABEL (NJAL), a leader in cultivation of fashion and accessories design talent, to produce the second annual ORIGIN PASSION & BELIEFS concept fair. 

Originally launched in May 2014, ORIGIN PASSION & BELIEFS was conceived incollaboration with Fiera di Vicenza President Matteo Marzotto and Stefan Siegel, Founder of NOT JUST A LABEL. The intention: to create an innovative fashion event pairing global independent design talent with Italy’s most distinguished manufacturers. Italy offers one of the most sophisticated artisanal and industrial eco-systems, however in need of an innovative and progressive format to engage with design creative internationally. With over 18,000 independent design talents at hand, NJAL has strategically selected one hundred of its network’s most groundbreaking and celebrated designers from 36 countries and 50 cities.

ORIGIN PASSION & BELIEFS will run from May 15 - 18, 2015 in the city of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. The region is the heartbeat of Italian manufacturing and production. Thousands of Italian artisans, entrepreneurs and family owned businesses have called this area home for over seven hundred years. Seventh generationweavers, the finest leather goods manufacturers, jewelers and textile producers will join Italy’s most modern and ground breaking technology and 3D‐printing giants.