Six complementary shows are brought together at one place – Paris, where the entire fashion industry meets to vision the future of fashion. The Première Vision Paris gives direct access and deep insight to the best that the fashion industry has to offer. It is a ‘must visit’ event, where 62,000 industry professionals from over 120 countries come together to share ideas, do business, work and build their new collections, and this year’s summer edition was no different. The biggest take-away trends include a luxurious take to linen where fibres get remixed with rich canvas textures, flecks of colour and coated handles. Uneven raised surfaces look to embossing and bubbled effects to create a new relief pattern across a range of fabric qualities. New rustics come through in softened towelling effects where a matted and dishevelled feel is added to the finish.
Outer & Overwear
This category includes fabric highlights for outerwear, in specific, jackets, suits, trousers, jeans, trench coats, parkas, blousons and other sleeved pieces with cottony, linen or synthetic plains and fancies, suiting, tweeds and compact knits, both chic and relaxed.
For light summer coats, high-design rusticity, heavy aspects, thick yarns and enlarged weaves are the best-spectacular basket-weaves, simplified patterns and motifs. The outerlayer would include monochromatic ornamental jacquards or geometric quilting. Large pictorial florals printed on jacket-weight crêpes, thick piqués and rustic light canvas. For suits and trousers, chic linens, perfectly tamed linen with wool blends, delicate blurries, subtle colour and material vibrations will be used. Denim and casualwear fabrics will revolve around very fine neps and rings, crunchy linen blends. For knit denim, indigo softwear, backs like fleece, elastic suppleness and the raw ones would be in ecrus and mixes of sophisticated whites, painter’s-canvas coatings, supple linens/cottons and sturdy twills. The structured dresses and women’s trousers will include crêpes with tiny grains and springy fluids, viscose, synthetic or cotton blends, shivering surfaces bordering on a wrinkled-look.
Tops & Shirts
Discover fabric highlights for tops and smaller items like shirts, blouses, tunics, dresses, tee-shirts, polos and undergarments, with the season’s plains, prints and fancies in wovens, knits, lace or embroidered.
For decoration tops, lines would include continuous ones, dots and stippling, delicate hatching, freely sketched contours and thread-like lines. Designs will be drawn in flat planes, simplified fruits and flowers in three colours, thick outlines with a comic-book look, very precise botanicals and pictorial. For T-shirts, sweatshirts and polos that are translucent, ultra-fine jerseys in linen or cotton for T-shirts lightened to the point of transparency can be adopted. For compact fineness, ultra-clean cottons, impeccable mercerizing, fine and blocked knits, miniature or enlarged piques and small graphic jacquards like wovens are ideal. Fluid blouses and dresses that are light in weight would involve fine crêpes and colourful voiles, stripes playing on transparency or matt/shine. Shirts would be made up of linen voiles, chambrays, end-to-ends and micro-dobbies with a delicately rustic look. Semi-plains end-to-ends and stripes enlivened with yarn imperfections and long slubs.
Evening Wear
This segment includes dressy fashion-evening, cocktail, bridal or ceremony, along with the most exceptional decoration, in silks, lace, embroideries, ribbons and festive tweeds.
Dresses with filtered transparency would make use of fabrics like evanescent laces, large or mid-sized flower motifs and colourful gardens. Cut-yarns in cut-out patterns, spectacular engineering, playing on emptiness and fullness and organzas with cut-out flowers, hollowed-out jacquards. The luxe styles would include precious raffias and cellophanes; ultra-supple rabanna with a vegetal shine, basketry weaves dotted with metal accents, knits like luxurious string, in a primitivecouture spirit. Playing on thick yarns, raw/translucent sandwiches, hybrid jacquards and linen-y or cottony imperfection. The precious textures that are composed of the richness of handles and opulent textures would need embroideries with expressive handles, with thickly-drawn motifs, highlighted with macro-yarns or raw soutache. The simple ones will be made up of pared-down patterns and luxurious opulence, flattened and schematized florals in jacquards, lace and embroidery. Large graphic contours, deliberately outlined motifs and simple flat planes of colour lend to the category too.
Technical Fabrics
Discover fabric highlights for the sport, outdoor, beachwear, activewear and workwear markets with innovative and highperforming knits and wovens.
For chic outer/under layers, there should be more stretch in outer-layer pieces. A light crispiness for tops or ultra-flexible compacts for trousers, for go-anywhere comfort. Outerlayer knits feature the cosy roundness of super-stretchy double faces, 2 or 3 layer assemblies, with breathing and/ or waterproof properties. For tops and shirts, functional additions like anti-UV, anti-bacterial and fast-dry properties combine with ever more fashionable visuals. Where casual styles are concerned, cottons, linens and ramies infiltrate the outdoors thanks to more and more efficient waterproof/ breathable performance treatments, and wind-stop coatings. Polyamides and synthetics adopt more natural visuals, colour scrapings to age over time, imperfections, crackles and mineral textures in semi-plains. Cottony waterproofs are livelier and more casual, with somewhat poorly ironed and subtly rippling surfaces. For rainy days, prints are generously rolled out on all waterproof base fabrics with halo effects, blurry lights, dilutions and watercolour splotches, pearly powders.
Bharat Tex Special Report 2026 
