Igedo (Igedo Company GmbH & Co. KG) is an organiser of

fashion Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...

fairs and shows established in 1949 and located in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

, Germany. The

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abbreviates "Interessengemeinschaft Damenoberbekleidung", in English "Community of interests for women's outerwear". Since 2004 it belongs to

Messe Düsseldorf Messe Düsseldorf GmbH is a German Trade show, trade fair company based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company operates one of the largest exhibition grounds in the world and is one of the leading international organizers of trade ...

. The former fashion fairs of the Igedo known as "Verkaufs- und Modewoche Düsseldorf", "Igedo Fashion Fairs" or "Collection premiere Düsseldorf" (CPD - 30,000 trade visitors in 2009) were at times the largest in the world.AUMA fair database
/ref> Since 2007, the Bread & Butter tradeshow in Berlin surpassed its dominance. Igedo has branches in

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and

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*{{official website Companies based in Düsseldorf Trade fairs in Germany German fashion Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia Event management companies of Germany