Fabrics
With 750 vendors at its biannual fair, Première Vision is the leading fabric convention in fashion. It’s held in Paris (with two smaller previews in New York), where clients such as Prada, Giorgio Armani, Marc Jacobs, and Donna Karan send their teams to scour the best of the next season. For spring-summer 2011, Pascaline Wilhelm, PV’s fashion director, says: “The dominant themes at February’s fair were Fantasy Prints and Florals. There was A Lot Of Color. It was very re-miniscent of the Fifties, but it’s been redesigned somewhat. And the Eighties are going to be important for color and fabric sway. We’ll see a little bit of Metallic Blue and Yellow and Green.”
Vintage
Designers frequently comb through vintage shops looking for inspiration. “Right now, the demand is for Floaty Floral things and Embroidery,” says Radford Brown, co-owner of Cherry, a vintage store in the West Village
