The spring summer 08 season
the freedom in doing otherwise

LAUNCHING into a season marked by energy and difference.
Rediscovering a taste for the present,
anchoring oneself in reality,
savouring the dynamic of the ephemeral
and joining in tomorrow's time.
Delighting in connivances between neutrality and colour,
tasting the complementary alliances of nature and artifice,
of sport and urban universes.
Fertilising affinities between naturals and synthetics
shine and mattness
compacts and fluids
stretch and transparency.
Daring to move out from the shadows and savour fantasy.
Brightening what is tangible,
illuminating emptiness,
humanising the city,
solidifying contrasts,
provoking desire,
promoting the subjective,
believing in the power of creation.
Jumping onto the springboard to difference
and finding the freedom in doing otherwise.






The spring summer 08 colours
bringing the energy of colour into the light of day

ASSERTING yourself, and bringing the energy of colour into the light of day. Savouring the luminosity of their complementary and unexpected alliances, their bold and delicate collisions, their specific harmonies. A dense and moving range of colours in which to envelop and flaunt yourself, thanks to their particular nature.

As springboards to vivacity, neutrals position themselves as allies and not essentials. They multiply in nuance, tone and value to gain in neatness,
and to find the accuracy of colour associations. As rare and indispensable punctuations, darks underline luminosity. They reveal their constructive
restraint with precision, and combine in measured opposition. As vectors of energy, brights initiate motion. They proclaim their affirmed temperaments and
position themselves as inciters of contrasts, to stimulate neutrals and enliven soft tones. As dynamising sparks, acidic tones play the role of agitators. They exalt clarity in colours, and manifest their tangy freshness to upset darks, activate light shades and tease brights. As an energising fulcrum, yellow infuses tones, brightening up beiges, lightening greys and wooing purplish shades to incite grating complementarities.







THE FABRICS OF THE SEASON


Brightening Reality

Finding an anchor in reality and savouring all its delights. Drawing sustenance from poetic city signs, happily detecting the hand of man. Appropriating the city by humanising it, by energising, colouring and laying it bare. Bedecking oneself in its essentials, to depart from neutrality and dare to play on contrasts in behaviours and aspects.

illuminating by bold shine
Embracing the perfect shine of manufactured materials, showy metallics, smooth and stretch bodyworks. Being brightened by a citified gleam, by asphalt reflections, by wet lights. Plunging into the labyrinth of waxed, tarred, and varnished aspects to better reveal oneself.

savouring the pleasure of materiality
Diving into reality and revelling in the delights of materiality, whether weighty or ultra-light. Combining robustness and flexibility, with linen, cotton or lyocell blends for a nonchalant and supple heaviness. Savouring the tactile pleasures of double weaves and knits revealing all the nobility
of their fibre and drape, whether natural or synthetic, dense or transparent.
Exalting the bulky and the power of roundness, with fabrics elaborated through contrasts between the warp and the weft, for intense densities and exceptional volumes. Savouring the generosity of patterns, grandiose curves and giant flowers. Standing out through rustling, brittle lightness, breaking out of anonymity with verve, through fabrics with paper coatings, with structures amazingly dense and fine.

Building with transparency
Cheerfully structuring with emptiness and space, with openworking, with carvings
and guipure. Playing with juxtapositions between intangibility and ultra density, pleatings and roundness, through organzas and organdies, or in contrasts in opacity through cut-yarn jacquard voiles, knits, embroideries and lace.

moving on from rigour
Opening up to the dynamism and multiplicity of city signs and structures, to push geometry towards the sensitive and abstract. Realigning axes, shifting squares, curving straight lines, bulking up circles, shifting the regularity of ottomans with suppleness.



CULTIVATING SPONTANEITY
Engaging in a resolutely individual, creative, emotional, conceptual, and sentient approach. Being carried away by the freedom of the artist, to imagine tomorrows and products that exceed expectations. Craving the accuracy of gestures found in arts or sports, motions at once right and immediate, innate and elaborated. Valuing one's differences, and fully assuming one's own expression and approach, to openly express individual talents.

exacerbating
Making no concessions, and assuming the impertinence of handles with a strong
character. Steering fluidity to the point of runniness. Favouring viscose and cupro for springy behaviours. Applying liquidity to decorations, and designing moving jacquards, laces, embroideries and prints. Appreciating the daring of disturbing sensations, grating, rough, even coarse, handles. A dry and springy liveliness as manifested in silk, wool cotton, ramie or linen crepes.

rebounding
Stimulating motion, and magnifying the dynamic of the body through ergonomic and
graceful fabrics. Accentuating a comfortable, generous or ultra-sheathing elasticity with muscular, fleshy, athletic fabrics. From shirtings to suitings to knits, from slacks to prints, from naturals to synthetics, stretch infiltrates itself with tenacity.

floating
Shaking off the weight of preconceived ideas, and unloading weaves and knits to
move towards zero weight. Elaborating ultra-light fabrics for unfettered motion.
Moving in wool or cotton suitings that are ever more refined, pushing ahead into the very limits of an opaque intangibility, with impalpable silks, featherweight synthetics and imperceptible membranes.

shivering
Feeling the emotion of fabrics enlivened by minuscule undulations and extremely
fine textures. Favouring the lightness of shivering silks and discreetly creponned knits and cottony fabrics, barely striated aspects, and microscopic seersuckers.

affirming
Marvelling at the controlled spontaneity of the artistic gesture, and enveloping
oneself in decorations demandingly elaborated. Scribbling and paint strokes
communicate the generosity of brushes or markers, of an intentionally arrested
moment, with prints, lace and over-embroidered jacquards.



INCITING COMPLEMENTARITIES
Rediscovering an appetite for alliances between people and elements. Generating collusions to exit an idealised purity, and arriving at constructing other means of adapting. Providing a sign of innovation and comfort by moving away from nostalgic viewpoints of nature or nobility. Providing the starting point to bold combinations between the natural and the artificial, performance and fashion, luxury and frivolity. Sharing a delight in the imagination, and the energy found in projecting the future, to create our tomorrow.

associating natural and artificial
Opposites ally to seek a balance between visuals and handles. The qualities of each
are compounded, to compose bold harmonies between vegetal and synthetic, fibre
and filament. Linen, ramies and cottons are mixed with polyamide and smooth
surfaces and handles. Performance finds a harmony with honesty, tactfully
measuring out blends of silky or natural artificials. Irregular visuals are attenuated,
and adorned in glazed aspects, to better stand out from the mattness and roughness
of ultra-drys.

harmonising organic and chemical
Doing more than talking about ethical, renewable, low-polluting aspects and getting a
strong message out, together, concerning environmentally-respectful and fair
production. Actively promoting the value of recycled and recyclable fibres using the
full force of design and aesthetic research.

vaunting the true-false
Perceptions about notions of natural purity are evolving and finally freed of
semblance. Nature is transposed,
boldly, eccentrically, in imaginary gardens, in furnishing-style raffia-mattings, while
remaining supple. Faithful mimicry is largely outmoded, with dazzling
interpretations, grating and funny reflections, for a spruced-up natural.
Light invites itself in, with all the freedom in fickleness, sketching fabrics with fleeting
sparkle, and a luxurious discretion. Moon dust gently settles on fabrics, and tiny
linen slubs trouble knits like flakes of summer snow.

solidifying contrasts
Playing with colours, creating dissonant mock complementarities, having fun with
the clashing and the bizarre. Allying rawness and delicacy, weight and ethereality,
semi plains and true graphics. Combining nobility and trinkets and departing a
well-mannered luxury to enliven decorations. Giving fancies a charmingly makeshift
allure. Discovering an enthusiasm for charms, associating plastic with silk,
embroidering trinkets, putting together lace with glass jewellery.












FANCY SEDUCTION

The universe of fantasy and seduction is written into a resolutely contemporary aesthetic. The science of behaviours luxuriously reveals the power of extremes. Slim and generously ample lines are united, an exaggerated materiality emerges alongside fineness, fluidity aligns stiffness, and decoration is combined with plains. Synthetic or artificial fibres as well as stretch attract silks toward sportier, or more technical, visuals. Shine is boldly manifested, seizing on the nobility of silk reflections. Decors are contemporary, and affirm strong personalities, through decidedly graphic prints and jacquards, along with unusual lace and embroidery.

decors : powerful or delicate, decors take an affirmed, extreme stand, with recognisable signatures. On the one hand decors open themselves with generosity and determination towards a freehand or geometric abstraction, with thickened lines, undulating solids pictorial
strokes. On the other hand, patterns play on the extreme refinement of discretion with imperceptible "freehand" embroideries, and subtle lace and jacquards with a sensitive geometry. Shine affirms itself boldly through dazzling sequins, pearls and crystals, mirror-like glazes on embroideries, laces or prints. In an energetic version, nature joyously blooms in floral embroideries and lace, in marvellous gardens. Surfaces are moving, with rigorous pleats, haphazard volumes, exuberant rustling and charming trinkets.

summer jackets and coats: consistency, generous volumes or light weights with technical accents. Quite neat and structured, plains draw inspiration from a home furnishings spirit with enlarged basketweaves, raffia matting weaves, square piquŽs and supple jacquards. Shine inserts itself from time to time to brighten jacquards and tweeds. For architecturally structured coats, duchesse satins, taffetas and failles are given density and solidity, and shot through with synthetic fibres. Lightweight silks adopt a technical crunch, making way for a sporty spirit into sophisticated products.

dresses and ensembles : Patently modernised, silks and summer wools grow more energetic and relaxed. Structure and transparency combine, with couture organdies and organzas,translucent and puffy linen and silk blends.
In cottons or linens, cut-yarn patterns draw subtle opacities, and lace and
embroideries ally rawness with delicacy. Surfaces capture light with metallic, iridescent or glazed aspects that magnify plains and jacquards. Impeccably smooth and elasticised satins boldly gleam, or, in a more relaxed spirit, feature linen blends. Fluidity is accentuated to the point of draping, with creamy knits and matt, often stretch, cr�pes. In silky or cottony blends, candy stripes brighten daywear with floaty or fitted lines.

small pieces : either women's shirtings or small jewel-like items.
Cottons, linens and ramie flirt with ethereality, and are plain or elaborated,
openworked. Cultivating their precious natures, light and stretch satins are fluid and sheathing. Silks, viscoses and cupro are caressing and springy, knits are runny or finely crepey. Shine stands out in chiffons, knits, voiles and end-and-ends sparkling with light.












TAILORED DISTINCTION

The distinction universe proves to be radically urban, allying chic perfection with an invigorating nobility. The fineness and density of suitings are magnified by perfect structures, either completely light or with a quite material feel. Formality is inscribed in motion, stretch and man-made fibres are inserted in precise doses to suggest clothing that is floaty, crunchy or sculpted close to the body. Men's suitings flaunt light colours and patterns are so closely set as to border on semi-plains. Women's suitings opt for lightness and fluidity. Shirtings play the usual disruptive element, while preserving their elegance, and knits pursue their message of refinement for small, unquestionably urban items.

trenches and dusters : on the one hand, a magnified naturalness via dense double cottons with neatly drawn weaves for impeccably matt and architectural coats. On the other hand, technicality allies with lightness. Pure or synthetic-blend suitings are elegant, and finely firm cottons are waterproof, thanks to treatments undetectable to the eye or hand. Truly coated or waxed linens and wools show off a lacquered shine and outdoorsy visuals.

jackets : linen takes a strong stand in jacketings with a generous thickness, quite urban or British-style patterns, and neat finishings. In light version, linen gains in lustre and suppleness. Suitings with hollow checks naturally favour sport jackets. Strengthening their presence, compact knits and double knits combine perfect hold and cottony freshness.

men's and women's suits : an accrued stretch energises formal looks.
The nobility and fineness of cottons and wools are optimised by natural stretch, or blended with elastane. Compact and invigorating micro-piquŽ cottons, also stretch, modernise and feminise a chic tennis spirit. Elegant and discreet shine lightens semi-plain, chinŽ and end-and-end suitings, with almost metallic reflections. Visibly silky blends, lustrous mohairs and impeccable satins also subtly gleam. Linen and cotton surfaces are smoothed and glazed thanks
to viscose or polyamide blends. In womenswear, fluidity is either weighty, with freshened, supple viscose or cupro suitings, or lively, with translucent cr�pes and wools. Ultra-urban and refined, linen imposes itself in blends incorporating wool for suitings. In a highly controlled natural spirit, cotton surfaces are barely disturbed by light slubs or discreet micro-weaves.

small knit pieces : mercerised cotton jerseys aim for greater lightness and neatness, up to the point of transparent voiles. For polos, refined and lustrous linen showcase a fibrous perfection.


shirtings : extra chic patterns invigorated by bold colours and updated grounds. Shirtings lose a certain weight, with percales, voiles, translucent linens and plays on openworking. They show off a lustrous perfection with satins and matt/shine patterns. Whites are brilliant, either monochrome and pure or very graphic and luminous, alternating thick stick stripes. Neutrals and vitamin-packed tones are boldly combined, orangey tones and yellows move into the classic shirting universe, and regimental graphics display a fondness for red. Summer dark shirtings contrast with lighter-coloured suitings.

linings: stretch, colourful, ultra-shiny or fancy, they lend an added note of personalisation.









RELAXED ATTITUDE

The casual universe moves toward a chic and structured cottony neatness. It integrates technicality and dynamism with natural/synthetic alliances and stretch materials, and also shows a tendency towards environmentally- responsible products. Weights and behaviours are precisely elaborated and targeted: either clearly material with neat firm fabrics or supple linen-y fabrics, or truly lightened and dense for dress weights or light trousers.
Knits and shirtings flaunt energetic or graphic fancies. Prints and shine, either metallic or synthetic, joyfully emerge in this dynamic universe.

sleeved items and outerwear : contrasting weights and exacerbated shine.
Materiality and weight with very dense cottons, solidified finishings and polyurethane coatings to impeccably stiffen and structure. By contrast, waterproof treatments grow lighter, favouring a peachskin softness or a papery crunch. Bold shine integrates casualwear, linen is laminated with metal, and cotton is allied with polyamide for fresh handles and smooth shine.

trousers : relaxed with refined personality.
Cottons show off perfect surfaces, lacking roughness. Weaves are impeccably
drawn, with basket wovens, twills and ottomans showing off plays on yarn-dyed minitwo-tones. Handles are subtly softened with micro-sanded finishings or very light emerisings. The use of viscose, lyocell or cupro in cottons and linens combines softness and dryness, marrying suppleness and consistency. Linens and cotton/linen blends grow more sophisticated, irregularities are attenuated,
weaves are dense, a workwear spirit grows refined with chambrays and yarn dyes.
The natural gleam and chicness of mercerised satins meets the glazed light of
synthetics, either in blends or in coatings.

denims : neatness, an accentuated stretch and lighter weights that flirt with 8 oz. even for trousers. Linen infiltrates denim, particularly to dry-out handles and enliven behaviours. In an urban spirit, blacks, greys and whites play on shadow and light. High-performance stretch fabrics can now resist chlorinated washings thanks to the use of specific fibres.

knits : highly-elaborated behaviours to more closely follow fashion.
More stretch for closer-to-the-body lines; more cellulosic fibres for a creamy, truly sportswear, suppleness; compact, firmly-set non-brushed knits for jackets and blousons; transparencies to layer. Stripes are graphic, energetic, and combine neatly with terries.

shirtings : freshness with patterns that have soft or acid-toned colourways, handkerchief checks enlarged on light grounds, discreet seersuckers or lightly washed finishings. Weights grow lighter for a feminine-style semi-transparency.

decors : casualwear prints show themselves to be striking and joyously coloured. Florals are reinterpreted in layers, rhythmical and graphic, or enlarged for a mid-summer feeling. A more spontaneous dynamism, for hastily sketched naive looks and freehand poetic
signage.









ACTIVE PULSATION

The pulsation universe confirms its role as a "pathfinder," as a laboratory of ideas, at the service of products in tune with fashion expectations. Moving transversally from active sports to lingerie, stretch is heightened for closer-to- the-body lines, or to ally comfort with extreme protection. The targeted use of elastane in highly technical fabrics, cutting-edge active sports products and knits with a beefed-up elasticity are directly part of fashion trends. A universe that also dedicates its research to natural-performant alliances. Natural fibres combine with high synthetics, and 100% naturals are "boosted" by performance features through bondings or coatings while maintaining a highly urban or relaxed look. Shine displays the technical nature of fibres, from bodywork metallics to a boldly synthetic shine.

outdoors : outdoor products gain in preciousness in weaves like satins and twills, in behaviours, which can be crunchy as in taffetas, and in metallic or lacquered visuals. Windproof functions are developed on light bases combining fineness and wind-resistance or on sturdier multilayers. High-resistance fabrics take on more fashionable visuals together with a generous materiality. Fast-dry or climatic knits are enlivened by geometric microstructures.

swimwear : beachwear and the bathing universe favour a gaudy exuberance with a demonstrative gaiety. Ultra-shiny satins and charmeuse, dynamic geometrics in matt/lacquered tone-on-tone, graphic and stylised floral prints on knits or wovens, flashy stretch lace. Thanks to the use of chorine-resistant, elastane fibres and dyes swimsuits for the pool gain in quality.

lingerie : influenced by silk, knits and wovens are illuminated with a plain or jacquarded satiny shine. Second skins are creamy, or feature a sheathing translucent fineness, with chiffons and voiles. Laces are airily fine with almost ghost-like decoration.

eco-respect : protection of the environment is confirmed as a priority in research. Organic or fair-trade cottons for sportswear and denim, quickly biodegradable fabrics for high-performance casualwear. Renewable and environmentally-responsible natural fibres such as algae, soy, and bamboo, make strides in all markets.

Publisher: Premiere Vision
Premier Vision is The World's Premier Fabric Show . It is to professionals what Paris is to Fashion ; a trends' capital where the colours and materials of a whole season are decided eighteen months in advance.
Web: www.premierevision.fr
Published: February 2007
Market: textiles
Region: france

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