Personal protective equipment, smart fashion, outdoor fabrics, or modern workwear are both smart and tough. The curated special exhibition "Performance Apparels on Stage" shows live what your high-end materials are capable of – and in which apparel applications they can be put to the ultimate test. Would you like to show how your textiles perform in the apparel industry? Submit your products and those of your production partners by 25 February 2026!
Apply hereYour participation in Performance Apparels on Stage
Submit now: clothing end products made from innovative functional materials
- Participation is free of charge
- Submission deadline: 25 February 2026
- Live presentation on the Performance Apparels stage at Techtextil 2026
- Evaluation by renowned expert jury
- Criteria:
- Protective performance
- Comfort and ergonomics
- Material innovations and new fiber technologies
- Technology adaptation
- Design & usability
- Intelligent care & maintenance
Warming, cooling, protecting or tracking: In the special show Performance Apparels on Stage in Hall 9.0, Techtextil presents functional clothing in a live setting. Innovative wearables are on stage – worn, tested and ready to be experienced in action.
In a dynamic show, you and your development partners demonstrate how technical textiles perform in wearable end products. Each outfit tells a story about its function: What innovative features are found in the latest wearables? Where are new areas of application opening up? And how do textile solutions prove themselves under extreme conditions?
Whether smart textiles, outdoor textiles, fashion or personal protective equipment – here it becomes clear what modern functional clothing can achieve. A jury of experts curates the most outstanding exhibits and brings your best innovations to the stage.
A fashion show of a special kind – with the focus on performance.
Our expert jury
The selection of the products presented is made by an independent jury of experts consisting of:
- Hendrik Beier (Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitute e.V.),
- Judith Bosch (ETP- The European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing),
- Nora Kühner (Nora Kühner | fashion . design . consulting),
- and Wolfgang Quednau (BTTA GmbH).