VIEW no. 147
READY, STEADY, GO!
Coinciding with some of the main European fabic shows (Pitti Filati, Première Vision* and Milano Unico) one of the world’s great sporting events, the men’s European football championship (AKA the Euros), kicks off in Germany, with 22 teams out to beat the bookies’ favourites: France. Later in July sees the start of the biggest sporting spectacle of them all, the summer Olympics and Paralympics: 15,000 athletes and more than 13 million spectators will converge on Paris for the biggest event France has ever organised.