Première Vision
19 - 21 September 2017 Parc des Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte
The winter season 2018/19 begins here in Paris at
Première Vision where the world’s designers
and manufacturers come together with a profusion
of ideas and a new artistic dialogue to celebrate the start of a new collection.
By Carole Denford
This edition attracted more than 60,000 visitors whose first stop was to the General Forum in Hall 6 to watch the short film giving new directions and underlying themes, then to consider the new season’s colours, including colour mood boards for the different fashion sectors. It is after absorbing this new season it is time to examine the hundreds of specially selected, innovative fabrics swatches. The regular visitors to PV compile their lists of companies to see, and over the next few days work on their theme/directions, fabrics and colours, and using their expertise order samples so that the new collection can begin.
Fabrics
This was a season for an environmental drive, materials and patterns that were striving for originality with surface design maybe verging on the eerie! There were funny and witty parodies, fabrics that took us to the real and digital worlds that were clashing or merging. This was a season where technology was steeped in fantasy, maybe it was a desire for individual freedom, but overall it predicted an incurably optimistic future.
Première Vision consists of five separate but interlinking halls. As well as fabrics, colours and components, there are specific areas for ‘knitwear solutions’, manufacturing, yarns and fibres, prints and technical fabrics. Seminars for colours
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and fashion directions could be attended (not free). On Tuesday, the opening day, central to Hall 6 the results were held of the PV Award, where to great applause the winning designers were presented with awards for the most innovative fabrics of the season.
Accessories
Each season a unique selection of accessories and components for the fashion and design industries is presented in Hall 4. It offers creative collections for a range of sectors from more than 300 high quality international makers. The products include buttons, buckles, millinery hoods and flat materials, flowers, braids, feathers, textile and metallic trims, lace, embroidery and more.
To guide buyers in their creative research, the central Display Forum highlights the trends and presents the new season’s colour range. Some editions present five or six major directions, and at other times there may be many more; this season was broken down into more than twenty. Not particularly for the different accessory products, but with more demand for individuality, there are many new trends and fragmented fashion themes.
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