Press report Première Vision Paris Feb16

PRESS KIT

INFORMATIONS SALON

SHOW REPORT

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FEBRUARY 2016

premierevision.com

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55,025 VISITORS: INTERNATIONAL, MORE THAN EVER THE INDUSTRY LEADER, PREMIÈRE VISION PARIS CONFIRMS THE COHERENCY AND SOUNDNESS OF ITS CONCEPT IN A YET UNCERTAIN GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT. "Each season, Première Vision Paris represents a unique experience, a perfect balance of business and inspiration. No comparable event exists in terms of meeting industry professionals who count, and efficiently working one's collections." This assessment well describes the overall mood of satisfaction at the Parc des Expositions de Paris Nord-Villepinte this past 18 February.

At the close of three days of steady business activity and fruitful business meetings, the general view expressed was that, with its continually updated, broad and international offer, its constant creative richness and capacity to innovate, and also thanks to the quality of the exchanges enabled by the show, Premiere Vision Paris is the unique, leading event for the entire international fashion industry.

This season, 55,025 visitors attended the show to discover the collections and new product developments proposed by 1,725 selected exhibiting companies. An offer and number of visitors that remains unmatched in the sector, confirming the leadership and coherency of the ensemble of 6 shows.

But beyond the numbers, this last edition was marked by the irreplaceable quality of its above all international (73%) visitorship.

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However, the volatile international context could have heavily affected attendance. The Première Vision Paris shows were held in an ever more complex and shifting global economic and political -as well as industrial- environment.

• Political tension and security threats in many parts of the world • Slowdown in global growth • Less sustained growth in emerging countries (China) or in real difficulty (Brazil, Russia, etc.)

• Downturn in global textile and clothing consumption (-0.4% in 2015) • Slowdown in luxury markets • Growing phenomenon of a concentration of apparel businesses, leading to a reduced number of players on the global fashion stage • A packed event calendar (Chinese New Year, New York Fashion Week …)

Mindful of these difficulties, which have not spared the fashion sector, industry professionals were watchful on the eve of the show. They should be pleased at the dynamic business climate, the level of attendance and the quality of the contacts they experienced at the latest edition.

Thanks to its affirmed premium positioning, suitable strategic choices, and inspiring and cutting-edge fashion information, Premiere Vision Paris continues to demonstrate its full force, and the soundness of its concept.

This homogenous and efficient ensemble of 6 shows has been able to promote and coordinate its various activity sectors in all their diversity and complementarity to meet the expectations of international markets and the needs of an ever-more transversal creative-fashion industry.

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1,725 EXHIBITORS, 6 COMPLEMENTARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES, A SELECTIVE, HIGH-QUALITY OFFER SERVING THE CREATIVE FASHION INDUSTRY. This season, Première Vision Paris presented 1,725 exhibitors -spinners, weavers, accessory makers, design studios, tanners and furriers, fashion manufacturers- including 145 new companies. This high level of participation is exceptional for the sector.

Coming from 52 countries and rigorously selected, they were presenting their latest creative developments for spring summer 17.

This exclusive, diversified, creative and high-quality offer positioned the latest edition in a very positive overall dynamic, pertinently meeting the needs of professionals who are more and more demanding in light of increased international competition.

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A detailed look at the Première Vision Paris offer: Breakdown of exhibitors by shows: number of exhibiting countries) ( exhibitors - new exhibitors

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PREMIÈRE VISION YARNS

15

4

777

PREMIÈRE VISION FABRICS

13

27

INCL. MAISON D'EXCEPTIONS

27

220

PREMIÈRE VISION ACCESSORIES

INCL. KNITWEAR SOLUTIONS

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TOTAL 1725 145

52

ITALY

671

14

270

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24 20

285

25

31

14

137

PREMIÈRE VISION MANUFACTURING

33

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PREMIÈRE VISION LEATHER PREMIÈRE VISION DESIGNS

44

22

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The top 5 exhibiting countries at Première Vision Paris:

FRANCE

241

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TURKEY

UK

142

119

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SPAIN

85

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What our visitors said….

Visitors we encountered in the shows' aisles shared their first impressions of Première Vision Paris, its offer and evolutions.

"My time is valuable, and limited. With the transversal offer of its 6 shows, Premiere Vision Paris is the ideal place for me. Looking for new suppliers, I work the Premiere Vision Leather, Première Vision Accessories and Premiere Vision Fabrics shows. Organising the event to highlight all their synergies is really very useful to us."

Martial Tapolo, designer at the eponymous couture house (France).

"The fact that Premiere Vision Paris brings together 6 shows is very convenient. It is a time saver. We find everything we need under one roof. The fashion areas are also very useful and help us get our bearings.

From the show displays to the quality of the exhibitors, we are always positively surprised. We are sure to come back next season."

Emma Ward, production assistant at Thomas Pink (UK).

"Première Vision is a must. Browsing its aisles and discovering its forums are both part of my visit. During my visit I am both collectioning and even recruiting new suppliers. Première Vision Paris, thanks to all the business activities it represents, is unique and very important for me. Because fashion is a whole."

Style director of a major French fashion group. " I always come to Première Vision Paris to focus on everything involved in building menswear. I find a lot of things, because menswear is really present here, through a very creative offer."

A freelance French designer who consults for major men's fashion houses.

"I come every season. We always take the time to attend because these are the most important shows for us. We especially love the special areas like Maison d'Exceptions, which are quite inspiring."

Emily Robson, Head of R&D at Christopher Kane (UK).

"We come every season and if possible for the full 3 days. The forums are very innovative and inspiring.

Première Vision Paris is a real opportunity for us to meet with our suppliers. This season, even more than previously, I appreciated the investments made by the organizers in terms of the overall welcome and the displays in the various spaces".

Louise Kennedy, director of the eponymous brand (UK).

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55,025 HIGH-QUALITY INTERNATIONAL VISITORS Each season, Premiere Vision Paris brings together the main players in the fashion sector. This latest edition welcomed some 55,025 visitors: buyers, designers and heads of fashion, leather goods, shoes and jewellery brands. Their goal? To find inspiration and unearth products and creative materials that will make all the difference in their spring summer 17 collections.

But beyond the mere numbers, it was also, and especially, the high quality of industry professionals that marked Villepinte this edition. And though, for economic and organisational reasons, some companies have tended in recent seasons to reduce the size of their teams, from a qualitative point of view, those attending are primarily the most influential decision makers, creatives and order writers.

Thus the show reflected a premium but also quite varied visitorship. This is true both in terms of their size -from independent designers to international groups and small and medium-sized enterprises- to their positioning - from major retail chains to luxury houses, including medium and high-end fashion and accessories brands.

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These high-quality visitors come from across the globe. At 73% international this season, visitors came from 123 countries. This strong and solid international attendance attests to the international appeal of the Première Vision Paris shows.

Première Vision Paris visitors come primarily from Europe (78% du visitors).

France leads with more than 15,070 visitors. In second position, the United Kingdom brought 6,434 visitors (12% of attendance), closely followed by Italy with 6,312 visitors (11.5% of attendance). This trio is then followed by Spain (more than 3,620 visitors), by Germany with 2,744 visitors (4% of visitors), and by Belgium and The Netherlands in the 8th and 9th ranks of visitor countries.

Also notable was increased attendance from Northern European countries, including Sweden (624 visitors) and Denmark (457 visitors) in the lead. Today these countries play an essential role in the creative fashion world.

Some 9% of professionals come from Asia.

Asian visitors remain strong, though marked by a more cautious Japanese presence, a direct result of the Paris attacks last November. Nonetheless, with 1,258 visitors, Japan, a major buying country of creative fashion and textiles, remains the leader of the Asian countries present. China, despite the notable slowdown of its economy and the Chinese New Year holidays, totalled 1,234 visitors, followed by South Korea, a genuine market outlet for creative fashion, with 816 visitors.

With over 2,070 visitors, North America was notably up despite the overlapping New York Fashion Week. This is a direct consequence of the economic recovery in the United States, the leading North American visiting country, with 1,847 visitors.

Turkey also made its presence known. With 2,311 visitors, this indispensable country for the fashion industry had attendance that placed it as the 6th largest visitor-country.

As for Russia, despite its economic difficulties, visitors -for the first time since several editions- showed an increase, with nearly 500 in attendance.

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1 728

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JAPAN

1 847

NETHERLANDS

2 311

BELGIUM

2 378

USA

3 442

TURKEY

6 312

GERMANY

6 434

SPAIN

ITALY

15 070

UK

FRANCE

Top 10 visitor countries in February 2016

1 327

1 258

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What our exhibitors said…

In between their client appointments, exhibitors shared with us their impressions of the Premiere Vision Paris visitors.

"We met with a lot of people during the first two days, and even the third and last day, which is often said to be calmer than the others."

Roberto Fachin, sales director, Tessitura Rossi (Première Vision Fabrics) "Europe was very well represented, and all the French were here."

Thomas Eberhard, in charge of Paris, Bodin-Joyeux (Première Vision Leather) "We will be returning because it is a prestigious event.

Buyers are reassured as to our company profile when we say we are one of the show's exhibitors."

Firattex (Première Vision Manufacturing) "Designers visiting our stand ask us for ideas. They come to see our new products. They are looking to us for answers."

Sara Origgi, sales director at BBM International (Première Vision Leather) "We are really very satisfied with this edition. The show has allowed us to optimize the showcasing of our products. And in the end, the visits we received exceeded our expectations!"

Rossana Caringi, Accessori Val Vibrata (Première Vision Accessories)

"We saw even more customers than last year. Over the course of several editions - we are here for the 5th time, ever since the creation of the space - they continue to be of ever higher quality, and quite sensitive to the product."

Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Nishiyama (Première Vision Fabrics / Maison d’Exceptions) "Show attendance is excellent. Visitors are all potential clients with a real intention to buy."

Anil Kanay, sales manager for major accounts at Anil Tannery (Première Vision Leather) "This first participation was very convincing. We were impressed by the number of appointments we had from the first to the last day, as well as by the diversity of visitors and markets: leather goods, footwear, fashion accessories... We will be taking part in future editions!"

WSG USA (Première Vision Accessories) "I am very pleased with this edition. My products are above all addressed to the French, and they are all here."

Stéphanie Savournin, Kiron (Première Vision Manufacturing / Knitwear Solutions) "Première Vision Leather visitors are international, particularly coming from Western Europe, where the fashion brands are."

Michael Jacobs, CEO of Jacobs (Première Vision Leather)

"The show provides a unique opportunity to approach major luxury brands."

Carles Blancafort, sales director at Curtidos Bassols (Première Vision Leather)

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FIRST REVIEW OF SPRING SUMMER 17 FASHION ORIENTATIONS The spring-summer 17 season resonated with joyful and effervescent dissonance. It showcased fruitful disharmonies, and gender alliances with a delicious ambiguity.

The season's fashion orientations enthusiastically and creatively highlighted complementarities between the various activity sectors and know-hows at Premiere Vision Paris, between yarns, fabrics, leathers and skins, and textile designs and components for clothing, leather-goods, footwear and jewellery.

New fashion directions were on fire, joyously destabilizing the obvious. They were generous, displaying porosities and transfers of know-how, especially in fantasy and decoration.

They were a clear incitement to refine anything rudimentary with developments that were rich in poetry and technology.

They took an offbeat approach to romanticism, posing a tart softness on naive florals and patterns, offsetting it with a rebellious, surreptitiously perturbing spirit.

They swung the experimental towards reality in radiant realisations, transparencies with substance, rich fluidity, elegantly bumpy textures, chic plastics, sensual elastics, and frank graphics.

Colours celebrate either subtlety or grandiloquence. They evoke a decisive emphasis on pale and warm tones, and don't combine neutrals other than to reveal a tasty, floral or artificial radiance.

Fashion information encourages designers to grab on to exhibitors' creations with a passion, to overturn uses, play around with underlayers/overlayers, and a body nicely augmented with technology. To have fun connecting sports and evening looks, combining ethnic influences and performance, rawness with softness and suppleness, flowers and menswear, messy stripes and colour blends.

As the season's standard-bearer, wonkiness asserts its positive values, gently striking at points of view, and shifting the centres of observation and creation. It unfolds in mischievous and cheery discoveries, for a deliberately non-conformist season.

>> Discover soon the review of the buyers’ choices. You can also find all fashion information and reviews in the Fashion Live section of the website www.premierevision.com.

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MODIFIED NATURALS: WSG USA (US) RIAL 1957 (FR)

GRUPO GAMAR (ES)

DIENPI (IT)

LANIFICIO FAISA (IT)

A.S.C.- AMERICAN SUPPLY (ES)

RIAL 1957 (FR)

PLASTIC CHICS:

AMALTEA BY INGROPELLI (IT)

TESSUTI & TESSUTI (IT)

RAMPONI® (IT)

NASTRIFICIO FIORENTINO - BARIG (IT)

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SENSUAL SPORTIES :

JACKYTEX (IT)

VIBRAM (IT)

RICAMIFICIO GIMAR (IT)

RIAL 1957 (FR)

SLY ROMANTICS:

SET EUROPA (IT)

AKTEKS (TR) ROSENFELDER (DE)

BALLANZA (IT)

TANNERY ARENA ANGELO (IT)

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SUBSTANTIVE TRANSPARENCIES:

KANDA (JP)

LANIFICIO EGIDIO FERLA (IT) LUSTROSA (IT) PUBLIESSE TECHNIQUE (IT)

EMR ZIPPER & ACCESSORY (TR)

GDA (IT)

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PREMIERE VISION EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD

Première Vision Istanbul 23-25 March 2016 Made in France Première Vision Paris 6-7 April 2016 Première Vision Designs New York 12-13 April 2016 Denim Première Vision Barcelona

Denim Première Vision Barcelona

18-19 May 2016

November 2016 Tissu Premier Lille

Tissu Premier Lille 25-26 May 2016

November 2016

Blossom Première Vision Palais Brongniart / Paris

Première Vision Paris 7-9 February 2017

6-7 July 2016 Première Vision New York

Première Vision Paris

19-20 July 2016

19-21 September 2017

Première Vision Paris

Première Vision Paris 13-15 February 2018

13-15 September 2016

Première Vision Paris 19-21 September 2018

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