Textiles Trade Fair: Première Vision Paris announces February and September 2025 event dates

Reported by Lucia Carpio.  All photos by Lucia Carpio from Première Vision Paris February 2024 edition.

Première Vision Paris is an essential event for professionals to explore upcoming trends in textiles, colours, materials, and design. Held twice annually, the fair allows industry players to stay ahead of seasonal trends while offering exhibitors a valuable platform to showcase cutting-edge fabrics, sustainable materials, and innovations in textile production. This keeps designers, brands, and manufacturers globally inspired and competitive within an ever-evolving market.

The fair brings together the entire textile value chain—from yarns to fabrics, designs, leather, accessories, and smart creation—catering to markets ranging from luxury and premium to mass distribution. This holistic approach positions Première Vision as a global observatory, capturing the evolution of an industry undergoing both structural and cyclical transformations.

In 2025, Première Vision Paris will return to its traditional February and September schedule. Additionally, Blossom Première Vision, its sister event, will shift to early summer and December, enhancing alignment with the industry's rapid pace and changing needs.

The GL events Fashion Division, responsible for Première Vision, announced this new schedule to support the industry’s shift toward sustainable transformation, technological advancement, changing consumer habits, and evolving economic demands. 

According to Florence Rousson, General Manager of GL events Fashion Division, these changes represent “the first strong steps in a new strategy” aimed at supporting the industry’s transformation. She emphasized that these adjustments are driven by GL events’ commitment to reshaping the industry, reinforcing Première Vision’s role as a catalyst for growth.

With 19 annual events, GL events’ fashion division includes Première Vision, Tranoï, and Fashion Source shows, creating a unique hub that addresses modern challenges in the global fashion market. As a vital part of the creative industry, this division fosters collaboration and debate among creative professionals worldwide.

Face-to-face interactions at international trade fairs remain invaluable for building strong global business relationships, enabling richer communication and collaboration than is typically possible through remote means.

Pantone® 17-3938 Very Peri fires up imagination in Home Décor and Interior Design

Ever since Pantone announced its new colour of the year 2022, the PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, it has animated designer's imagination.  The colour's modernity and creativity spirit inject a sense of playful freshness into home interiors, enlivening a space through unusual colour combinations. It is also a versatile shade and is suited to an array of different materials, textures and finishes, providing a pop of colour, whether introduced through a painted wall, accent furniture or home décor, or acting as an intriguing and eye-catching accent in a pattern.

At Wallsauce.com, creators of premium wallpaper murals, it has released it’s a series of five designs that complement Very Peri. A couple of them are shown here.

The Deep Wall Mural by Lara Skinner at Wallsauce.com

Focussing on Pantone’s description of ‘dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet red undertone', the wallpaper designs reflect the energy and confidence of this brand new colour; which for the first time since 1999, they have created an entirely new colour:

From a powerful geode design to carefree watercolour blends, all five wallpapers express tones that complement this brand new Pantone colour. 

Dreamy Pastel And Gold watercolour wallpaper mural available at Wallsauce.com

Rachel Kenny, head of the design studio at Wallsauce.com says:  “Blues have been trending beyond this year since the navy trend decorated our homes. It’s a delight to see a more uplifting tone that’s going to bring us happy and warm vibes.

With its periwinkle blue hue, Very Peri almost reminds us of cornflower blue littering summer strolls in fields with lots of fresh air – something we’ve all been missing recently!

We wanted to reflect that uplifting feeling with statement pieces that complement Very Peri. Choosing wallpaper designs that merge in true blues, purples, pinks and greens, we hope to have created a positive collection that’s also not for the faint-hearted.”

Wallsauce.com is one of the leading producers of custom made wallpaper murals. To discover more powerful purple wallpapers that are ready to bring energy to homes, head to Wallsauce.com.

Meanwhile, at British online art print destination Claude & Leighton® comes a carefully curated selection of wall art prints, which also complement the new Very Peri. 

A Very Peri gallery wall with art prints by Claude & Leighton

The art prints, created by artist, designer and co-founder of Claude & Leighton, Jayne Leighton Herd, feature the periwinkle violet blue shade that interior designers, stylists and homeowners alike will be crushing on during the year ahead.

Scottish Landscape Art Print - Alba III - by Claude & Leighton, 

from an original painting by British artist Jayne Leighton Herd.

The collection includes prints of abstract and landscape paintings, as well as brand new geometric design artwork, ampersand typography posters and abstract face line drawings. All very much in keeping with Pantone’s Very Peri colour ethos of joyous attitude and imaginative expression.

Very Peri Blue Abstract Face Line
Drawing Art Print by Claude & Leighton

The trending colour is positive, uplifting and easily relatable, inspiring thoughts of flowers, spring fresh air and meadows, says Claude & Leighton.

And it’s a colour which can be added to homes and offices simply, through the use of art and accent accessories, without the burden of redecorating.

The prints work well as standalone pieces, or can be included as part of a gallery wall display.

Available unframed in various sizes, each print in the collection is produced with high quality, fade-resistant inks on premium heavyweight, acid-free archival paper, to ensure it will last a lifetime.⁠

Annie Sloan's take on Living Coral

Pantone’s announcing Living Coral as the new colour of 2019 signals images in my mind of exotic places with warm sunshine.

It is no doubt an uplifting and happy colour, giving a feeling of hope and optimism.

Living Coral is already making waves in the interior design world, that can add cheerful notes and personality to homes.








According to paint expert and colour guru Annie Sloan,  Living Coral is a vibrant, almost neon coral, rare throughout the history of colour, because a shade this strong would have been expensive to make.

Annie Sloan:  Chalk Paint Coral Mix Using Tilton And Emperor's Silk.
Image from Annie Sloan.

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Annie Sloan says, “To me, it (Living Coral) conjures up the flavours of India and Morocco, of spices and sunsets.” 

“Create your own coral by mixing two Chalk Paint™ colours together. (As shown above) Three parts of Tilton, a mustard yellow, with one part Emperor’s Silk, a pure bright red, reflects that energy you can see in Pantone’s colour.”

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ Sunset Squares On Panelled Wall, featuring Antoinette, Barcelona Orange, Emperor's Silk Radiator features Chalk Paint™ by Annie Sloan in Antoinette. Daybed covered in Antoinette Linen Union Panels in Chalk Paint™;  Table top and floorboards in Chalk Paint™ Scandinavian Pink. Table legs in Chalk Paint™ Honfleur.  Image from Annie Sloan.

Annie adds: "Pack a punch by playing with blocks of colour, Josef Albers-style.  A sunset-inspired palette of Chalk Paint™ in Antoinette, Barcelona Orange, Emperor’s Silk and an Antoinette and Barcelona Orange mix will create a lively look that’s perfect for summer schemes.

Annie Sloan giving a demonstration with her Chalk Paint™ at a recent TopDrawer  London trade event.
Photo © Lucia Carpio 2019

"Once the walls are saturated with juicy colour, move onto floors, radiators, side table, trays - because of it’s unique formulation Chalk Paint™ can be applied to any surface without prepping, sanding or priming, while a coat of wax or lacquer will keep your furniture looking fresh into Autumn and beyond."

Colour trend for Spring/Summer 2018 - positivity infused with optimism

It is not easy to predict what the future will bring, but with the state of world affairs as they are, it is encouraging to learn that come Spring/Summer 2018, it will be a more positive global season infused with lots of optimistic colours, according to textile trends predicted at the just concluded Premiere Vision Paris trade fair which took place 7 - 9 February at the Parc des Expositions exhibition centre in Villepinte, north Paris.

It is an obvious study in simplicity, venturing optimistically between real and unreal sensibilities, with creative playfulness, interacting tones to enhance our everyday life.

Yellows and greens (turquoise, acid green, shadowy green), being bright and tasty are prominent, while equally key are the blues, especially a lilac colour called Heady Mauve.

Along with divine blues are real dark brown. pigmented water, aqua minerals, vitamins, bright shades, orangey reds, pinks, digital colours, stimulating, timeless, interesting when combined with neutrals.

Key colours.
For Womenswear Harmonies:-
1, Urban Primitive
Semi-floral, semi neon, weaves, jacquards
Strong focus on ultra bright shades, technical accents, trimmings in fuchsia
2, Icy Acids
Heavy mauve and cold tones, icy tones, aqua mineal
3, Floral Vibrations
Duos, bright duo combinations, embroidery, laces in a fresh spirit
Key:
Heady Mauve

Menswear:-
Shifting towards feminine influences, lighter, fresher approach.
Harmonies:-
1, Asphalt Flowers
Moving away from cold shades, khaki, dark brown replacing navy
Winter reds, pinks, esp. for shirts and polo's
2, Plant-like
Light colour ranges, Neutral softness
Flowery, neutral, bright tones and weaves, vegetal
3, Tonal Fantasy
Fantasy tone on tone, solid turquoise, artificial, cold coral for warm shades,
4, Black Asphalt and Red

All images © Lucia Carpio 2017