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Europeans now rank eco materials as priority when shopping

Published: September 17, 2020

Irrespective of age, European consumers now rank ecological materials as their most important criteria when shopping for fashion goods, with 58.5% favouring local production, some 64.1% saying they want to buy items made from eco-responsible materials and 30.1% even willing to spend more for them.

Première Vision Leather announces new calendar for 2021

Published: February 6, 2020

The leather trade show aimed at the fashion industry will be changing its calendar starting in 2021. The organisers said the move is designed to meet the requirements of a market in which collection creation and delivery timings have multiplied.

PVL’s leather industry barometer records positive growth

Published: February 20, 2017

The Première Vision Leather (PVL) barometer for the creative leather industries has registered positive growth in the first six months of 2016, outperforming the United Nations’ index.

Première Vision Leather targets the right buyers

Published: February 18, 2016

The worries that buyers were staying away from Première Vision Leather (PVL) because of either terrorism or trade concerns were dispelled on day two of the fair (February 17) as much larger numbers of visitors turned up than on day one, and a few American buyers could be seen.

Première Vision takes the lead on fashion research

Published: December 4, 2015

Première Vision and IFM (the French Fashion Institute) take their long-standing collaboration a step further to found the IFM-Première Vision Chair for “The Economics of Creative Materials for Fashion”.

Lectra host annual Education Congress

Published: March 3, 2015

Lectra, a leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials such as leather, fabrics, technical textiles and composite materials, recently hosted its 7th Education Congress in Paris.