November 11-13, 2025
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR

DEFINING THE FUTURE
OF PERFORMANCE

The Portland Fall edition—an exclusive sourcing destination tailored for those at the forefront of outdoor, lifestyle, and activewear textiles, footwear, and accessories. Explore cutting-edge trims that redefine the future of performance fabrics. This event showcases the latest products and technologies that will be available to hit the market, giving you a sneak peek into the trends shaping the 2025/2026 Fall and Winter seasons. Crafted by the industry for the industry.

This is a trade-exclusive event and is open – free of charge – to verified designers, product, purchasing, or material managers, looking to source fabrics and accessories for outdoor, sportive performance, and lifestyle apparel. Don’t miss this chance to reconnect with the apparel community!




Welcome to Functional Fabric Fair. Now, be YOU.

At RX’s Functional Fabric Fair, everyone belongs. We cultivate a culture of inclusion at all our events, where the very things that make each of us unique are celebrated. Our exhibitors, attendees, partners, event speakers, and industry colleagues are people from a wide variety of backgrounds, who make our shows stronger and our collective experience richer.  Now, be YOU.




Certifications: Which ones matter?

Functional Fabric Fair and PERFORMANCE DAYS are fostering a collaborative environment that helps drive advancements in areas like circularity, resource efficiency, and product innovation. For our Spring 2025 fair, we will emphasize the importance of certifications to ensure transparency and accountability in sustainable practices. We will be answering the question, of which certifications are required or recommended to meet the current product sustainability standards in the industry. 


DICHOTOMY

Extensive research forms the basis of this forecast. Together with an international team of renowned designers, all deeply rooted in sports, Nora Kuehner explores and analyses ongoing and emerging trends and their socio-cultural context. The team believes in the evolution of colors and trends from season to season. The color selection reflects this holistic approach: six to seven color stories are created framing the season’s focus topic.




SHOW LOCATION

Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd,
Portland, OR 97232

SHOW DATES + HOURS

Day 0 Sustainability Workshop
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
8:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Exhibit Hall & Expert Talks
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall & Expert Talks
Thursday, November 13, 2025
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM




OUR PLEDGE—SUSTAINABILITY AT EVERY STEP

Sustainability isn't just a theme at Functional Fabric Fair—it's a driving force behind the entire experience. From the moment attendees step onto the show floor, they’ll find a carefully curated selection of exhibitors who are leading the way in eco-conscious innovation, ensuring that every product and solution on display contributes to a more sustainable textile future. The Fair’s commitment extends beyond the exhibits to its dynamic educational programming, including the highly anticipated Day 0 Conference, with a focus on sustainable strategies, material breakthroughs, and circular design.

Even the event infrastructure reflects the fairs dedication to sustainability, with booths constructed from recycled materials and a deliberate choice of venues like the Oregon Convention Center in Portland—energy-efficient systems and LEED® Platinum certification. At every turn, Functional Fabric Fair proves that sustainability and performance can go hand in hand.





Hear What Industry Colleagues Are Saying!

The clients that we are meeting at Functional Fabric Fair are great, it's a very professional atmosphere. Great buyers, great companies. Plus of course, the whole crew of suppliers we like to meet, it's like a reunion every year.


Dennis Lau
Rudholm Group

Functional Fabric Fair gives us a great opportunity to reintroduce ourselves to the next generation of people who are going to be making the decisions that's going to effect the environment and everything else


Chad Doub
Naia from Eastman

Lots of vendors for both apparel and footwear, not just fabric, lots of trims, schools, and peripheral organizations


Attendee
Functional Fabric Fair Fall

Great show very resourceful and using QR codes is very helpful throughout the exhibition.


Attendee
Functional Fabric Fair Fall

The show management could not have been more accommodating! I met a whole new group of clients and will look forward to building relationships with the companies going forward.


Exhibitor
Functional Fabric Fair Fall



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