"Première Vision Paris, the global event for fashion professionals will kick start on February 16-18, 2016. Premier Vision plays on solidity, strengthening the transversality of its activity sectors to serve the global creative fashion industry. Ever since becoming the sole organiser of Première Vision Paris, Première Vision has had a clear goal to promote and coordinate its various activity sectors in all their diversity, with an eye to helping them complement each other's activities, all within the context of a single, harmonious, more effective event"

Première Vision Paris, the global event for fashion professionals will kick start on February 16-18, 2016. Premier Vision plays on solidity, strengthening the transversality of its activity sectors to serve the global creative fashion industry. Ever since becoming the sole organiser of Première Vision Paris, Première Vision has had a clear goal to promote and coordinate its various activity sectors in all their diversity, with an eye to helping them complement each other's activities, all within the context of a single, harmonious, more effective event. Through strategic changes and restructurings, Première Vision Paris is able to meet the expectations of increasingly demanding international markets, and the needs of a growingly transversal creative fashion industry. The highlights and features of the Premiere Vision Paris 2016 ae:

 

Activating the fashion value chain

As a part of its new Smart Creation Program, Première Vision highlights new competitive values serving the entire fashion value chain. With the participation of industry experts and professionals, this Smart Conversation will present innovative, intelligent and more responsible solutions and means, ranging from production of materials to the creation and manufacturing of the final product. A discussion on Smart Conversation will look at the results of an exhibitor-wide survey launched by Première Vision last July. The survey was created to better understand and communicate exhibitors’ initiatives and commitments in terms of sustainable production processes and responsible sourcing: the Smart Facts. Chantal Malingrey, Director of Marketing and Development at Première Vision, will present an exclusive look at the key figures and an analysis of the results of this study.

The new panorama of global sourcing

In the framework of the chair launched jointly with IFM (French Fashion Institute) concerning ‘The economy of creative materials for fashion,’ Première Vision is organizing a conference on the new panorama of global sourcing. Developed from a study conducted by IFM, it provides an analysis of the mapping of global sourcing, comparing the EU with the US, with a focus on France. The study will highlight countries that are seeing their importance increase in EU and US clothing imports, and those that, in contrast, are seeing their positions erode. In preamble, the conference will examine the main determinants of sourcing, namely labour costs in the supply countries, changes in the cost of raw materials, and changing exchange rates.

The study will also take a look at near sourcing (Europe, Eastern European countries, Mediterranean countries), focusing on what proportion it represents in terms of European supplies. In doing so, it will be possible to measure the impact of the rise in dollar on the distribution of supplies (local sourcing vs. overseas imports). Through a survey conducted by the IFM at the end of 2015, forward-looking elements will also be highlighted, including upcoming changes in the procurement practices of brands and distributors. Finally, the conference will take a look at Turkey, now an essential country for fashion industry: its economic conditions, the sourcing issues, and changing costs (labour, products etc.).

Trend seminars

These seminars general and transversals will present the season’s influences, the major transversal currents and the various complementarities existing between fabrics, leathers, patterns and accessories.

Entirely dedicated to the colour ranges, this colour trend seminar offers a thorough reading of the seasonal highlights, proposals for colour harmonies by market, and complementary uses of colour to create the best silhouettes, from clothing to accessories and shoes.

The trend seminars will provide quick guide to buyers in their product choices, discover the fabrics trends. An essential tool for spotting the season’s indispensable fabrics, with a focus on: fashion for the season and its key influences; fashion stories illustrated with inspirational images, photos of the season’s symbolic fabrics and patterns. The season’s key silhouettes for men, women, casual wear and sports.

The leather fashion breakfast

Among the fashion seminars are the Leather Fashion Breakfasts, held daily. These seminars present the trend concepts for Spring/Summer ’17, as well as the season’s key colours, products and materials for the leather and fur markets. It also presents a special focus on latest news spotted and gathered from show’s exhibitors.

For its second edition at Première Vision Leather, Sound Box will be producing new vibrations, echoing the concept of this season’s Trends Gallery ‘Beauty, my beautiful concern’. Artists and designers will reveal their vision of the ‘instability of beauty,’ their universe and their perspective through words, images and sounds. The creator Maroussia Rebecq will explain how to approach fashion in a completely new way. In her workshop, ‘the VW Factory,’ designer Victoria Wilmotte will explain the importance of making her own prototypes. Surrounded by his works in his studio, the painter Errò will talk about his vision on beauty. Dancer-choreographer Mié Coquempot muses out loud while dancing to the silent score of the Art of Fugue by Bach. And make-up and mixed media artist Annabelle Petit will demonstrate and comment on her vision of make-up and the beauty of imperfection. Hall 3 Events, happenings, special meetings...all through the aisles, discover surprises and news at the international show of leather and fur experts.