Convened by ANDI and PROEXPORT, a seminar called The Influence of the Fashion Factor in Marketing Textile Products, was held in the city of Medellín, in 1982.

Over 150 Marketing and Sales Managers and Directors from the Colombian Textile sector, guided by experts from

the International Cotton Institute, based in Paris, concluded that the time had come in Colombia to found and organize an office which would be in charge of coordinating and enabling intangible tasks, which would allow for adding greater value to the national production of textiles and garments. Five years would go by until, on December 17, 1987, at the ANDI in Medellín, the Act of Constitution of the Coordinating Office of the Colombian Textile-Manufacturing sector was signed, under the name Instituto para la Exportación y la Moda (Institute for Export and Fashion) – INEXMODA.

To date Inexmoda has seen the growth of the city, the country, the industry and design. The Institute is a clear example of team work which has allowed not only the fiber-textile-manufacturing-distribution chain, but the city and the country as well, to grow and much improve their international image.

We have grown in solidity and permanence, and we have woven more business … more industry … more purchasers… more employment… more wellbeing… more image… more credibility… more confidence… more trust… more research… more friendship… more fellowship… more future… and more Colombia!

INEXMODA …The only Institute of its kind in Latin America.

• Inexmoda is the only entity in Latin America with an integrated process for the textile industry including researching fashion concepts, carrying out trade fairs and training for the fiber-textile-manufacturing-distribution chain.
• It is the only entity in Colombia that organizes export business trade fairs for the textile industry: Colombiatex and Colombiamoda.
• It is the only entity that has taken its Colombiamoda fair international, carried out in Republica Dominicana and Ecuador during the first semester of 2002.
• It has achieved recognition and visits to Colombia from great personalities in the fashion world including Alain Hivelin, President of Pierre Balmain Fashion House, designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Walter Rodríguez (Brazil), Badgley & Mischka (New York), Ruben Campos (Chile), Armando Mafud (Mexico), Margarita Zing (Venezuela), Benito Fernández (Argentina), among others.