Première Vision Paris September 2025 preview
Paris will host Première Vision from 16-18 September 2025 at Paris Nord Villepinte. As usual for the September edition, the focus is Autumn-Winter 2026-27, with special weight given to innovation, technology, and sustainability. This edition brings together more than 1,000 exhibitors across its multiple universes—fabrics, leather, accessories, design, manufacturing, and more—providing an all-in-one sourcing, trend-forecasting, and networking platform for buyers, designers, brand managers, and manufacturers. Visitors will navigate a dynamic program spread across four stages—two dedicated to Talks and two to Pitches. These sessions will explore materials, colors, beauty, sport, and social trends, with a special focus on the season’s central theme: Innovation & Technology. Attendees can also join six thematic guided tours tailored to specific interests like fabrics, leathers, accessories, and sustainable solutions
Universes at a Glance
Première Vision divides its exhibitors and program into eight core universes:
- Yarns & Fibers
- Fabrics
- Leather (and related materials)
- Designs & Textile Design
- Accessories & Components
- Manufacturing (garments, denim, etc.)
- Smart Creation (material innovation, sustainable / bio / tech)
- Maison d’Exceptions (high-end craft, rare materials)
Each universe has its own subdivisions. For example, Fabrics includes sectors such as shirting, tailoring, knits, prints, sport & tech fabrics, fancy & high-fancy, lining, faux fur, etc. Manufacturing encompasses “Softwear, Shirts Up, Tees & Co, Special Skills, Upper Jeanswear, Suitwear, etc.”
Notable Exhibitors by Universe & What They’ll Present
Below are examples of some of the most visible or interesting exhibitors in each universe, with what they are bringing to this edition. These names are not exhaustive, but representative.
| Universe | Notable Exhibitors | What They’ll Show / Key Offerings |
| Smart Creation | Gozen (Türkiye) – creating animal-free leather / textile alternatives via biotechnology; their LUNAFORM™ material is a flagship product. CIRCLO EcoDesign & Circularity (Portugal) – recycled fabrics, transforming production surplus / post-consumer waste into high quality new materials for womenswear, athleisure, knits etc. | Innovation in bio-materials, alternative leathers, circularity, traceability. Expect new finishes, new fibers, next-gen sustainability in this area. |
| Leather | Inter Leather (Spain) – leather goods, shoes, small-quantity stock service, with strong traceability and environmental certification. Hosung B&T (South Korea) Conceria Nuti Ivo (Italy) Gruppo Mastrotto (Italy) – tanneries and leather-component specialists. | High-end leathers, exotic hides, finishes for footwear & leather goods, materials for small capsule collections. Expect exhibitors to show novel tanning processes, better traceability, perhaps more vegetal / semi-vegetal tanning. |
| Fabrics | Hisar Tekstil (Türkiye) Hurel (France) Ipeker (Türkiye) Ipekis-Lane Bugella (Türkiye) Innovativ (Brazil) Henglun Textile Company (China) Iljoong Global (South Korea) Izmir Brode Tekstil (Türkiye) Isil Tekstil (Türkiye) | All kinds of fabrics: shirting cottons, printed fabrics, knits, silks/silkies, fancy / high-fancy, technical / sport fabrics. Many will bring new texture, new finishes, special coatings, prints and patterns anticipating AW 26-27. |
| Yarns & Fibres | Inovafil (Portugal) Iskur Tekstil (Türkiye) (others not listed with detailed preview publicly) | Expect natural fibers (wool, cotton, linen), recycled yarns, performance / technical blends, perhaps high-loft textures, novelty twist / count, sustainable sourcing of fibres. |
| Accessories & Components | (Names less detailed in the public previews) – many exhibitors from Italy, France, Spain, India, Turkey. | Buttons, labels, trims, packaging, metallic and plastic accessories, functional hardware, embellishments. The trend will be toward components with less environmental footprint, better recycled materials, and decorative but minimal waste. |
| Designs / Textile Design | (Studios, pattern makers; specific names less visible in the public preview, but many design studios across UK, France, US, Italy, Spain) | New pattern collections, vintage / archival motif revivals, CAD & digital design studios, transfer imagery, prints calibrated for AW 26-27. Likely to see heavier textures, seasonal colour palettes, new ways of layering prints and surfaces. |
| Manufacturing | (Many small & medium garment makers, denim experts, knitwear manufacturers). Specific names from public list include Irmãos Rodrigues (Portugal) among others. | Expect finished garment makers capable of small & medium runs, private label, specialty in denim, outerwear, knitwear, fluid garments, swimwear. Also specialists offering services: quality control, logistics, traceability. |
| Maison d’Exceptions | This universe features craft, rare materials, artisanship. Names are more discrete in public previews; tends to include studios / small leather goods, fur / shearling, bespoke textile crafts. | Unique materials, custom finishes, haute-matière. For designers seeking signature pieces or limited edition details. |
Major Programs, Talks & Guided Tours at Première Vision Paris 2025
Alongside the exhibitor showcase, Première Vision Paris 2025 offers a full program of seminars, guided tours, and special presentations designed to help professionals decode the season’s creative and sustainable directions.
Season and Trend Seminars
- Autumn-Winter 26-27 Trend Seminar
An in-depth look at fabrics, colors, and materials shaping the upcoming season. Première Vision’s fashion team will present the AW 26-27 trend book and explain how to apply it across product categories.
Guided Tours
- From the Prospective Area to Bag & Shoe Focus
A curated journey through trend spaces, with attention on how seasonal directions translate into accessories. - Eco-Responsible Innovations Tour
A path through Smart Creation and exhibitors with sustainable and circular materials, highlighting new fibers, alternative leathers, and traceability tools.
Conferences and Panels
- Leather, Fashion & Innovation Seminar
A discussion on responsible leather sourcing, tanning techniques, and the balance between tradition and sustainability in the leather industry. - Sustainability & Circularity Talks
Conversations with material innovators and exhibitors working on recycling, bio-based solutions, and reduced-impact processes. - ANDAM Innovation Prize Pitches
Finalists of the ANDAM Innovation Prize will present their projects on bio-materials, AI-supported design tools, and digitalization for the supply chain.
New Initiatives
- Deadstock Trail
Exhibitors offering surplus or unused stocks of fabrics and leather, giving visitors direct access to high-quality deadstock materials to reduce waste. - Digital & 3D Zone
CLO Virtual Fashion’s 250 sqm immersive space will show how 3D simulation and digital design can support eco-design and reduce prototyping costs.
What’s New and What to Expect
- Smart Creation & Innovation as a guiding theme. The show has more visibility for material innovation, sustainability, tech (e.g. bioleathers, recycled fabrics, traceability).
- Deadstock Trail: a newer initiative to allow exhibitors to present unsold or leftover materials (textile / leather) so they can be reused, reducing waste. This is part of their sustainability push.
- Digital / 3D experiences: For example, CLO Virtual Fashion is offering a 250 sqm immersive experience exploring digitalization, eco-design, simulation.
- Colour and trend intelligence remain strong pillars: guided tours, trend tools, “Prospective Area,” colour decoding, etc. Attendees will see curated palettes and material/textural direction for AW 26-27.
Why Attend & Practical Details
Attending Première Vision Paris in September 2025 gives access to:
- Full view of the supply chain—from yarns and fiber suppliers to finished components and garment manufacturers. You can compare multiple sources, meet manufacturers with different capacities, view fabrics and leathers side by side.
- Advance access to trends: material texture, colour, surface treatments, silhouette implications are revealed before they hit the market. Helps brands, design teams plan with confidence.
- Sustainability momentum: with dedicated universes, trails, exhibitors offering eco-solutions, and seminars targeting materials, waste, traceability etc.
- Tools to help plan the visit: guided tours, the mobile app (to schedule meetings, filter exhibitors), interactive map.
Dates & Times: 16-18 September 2025, at Paris Nord Villepinte. Visitor opening hours are typically 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM (closing earlier on final day).
Première Vision Paris September 2025 promises to be a dense, multi-faceted event: a place where material innovation meets commercial sourcing, where trends are forecast and materialled early, and where sustainability is not just an add-on but deeply embedded in many universes. For attendees, it’s an opportunity to see both the established big names in fabrics, leathers, accessories etc., and emergent innovators in Smart Creation and circular design.
