The 24th edition of LE CUIR A PARIS will take place at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre, from 12 –14th February 2013.

DOWNLOAD – LE CUIR A PARIS Summer 2014 Trends – Pdf File [3,7 MB] The exhibitors will present their Summer 2014 collections of leather, textiles for accessories and technical components.

The Summer 2014 trends will be illustrated on the Trends Gallery, the essential port of call for all savvy designers visiting the show.

Fashion and Color Trends

Everything is moving, shifting, trembling under our feet and destabilizing us. Let’s make the most of it to find a new balance. The world that is coming will be a wily one. Our task will be to forge a place there, to invent new strategies. It will be up to us to understand that to succeed, strength is in numbers and we have to learn to make the most of our differences.

Our colors journey in networks, our tastes blend together. From now on, fashion will belong not to a country but to the entire world. And as we are reviving the values of creation and know-how: NOW IT’S OUR TURN !

LE CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur Trends for Summer 2014 – OBSESSION

OBSESSION
Nocturnal Fantasies 
Materials are inspired by climatic accidents and legends from other lands. A worrying and very sombre nature surrounds us. Creatures that are half-man/half-beast surge forth and upset us with the shine of their yellow eyes. Phantoms or fantasies, they are the bearers of mysterious legends, the foretellers of climatic accidents, of the evolution of the species.

Repetition 
Joyful rigour and an obsession with patterns set the tone for the season. The need for rigour has provoked a monomania for patterns. Repetition and obsession boost creativity. Graphic and joyful rhythms, a blend of very precise, calibrated and detailed designs. It brings to mind Bach’s Fugues, installations by Buren, the patterns of Gerhard Richter and optical art. In a more naïf register, we find the revival of Marimekko, a contagious epidemic of Wall Papers and All Overs.

LE CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur Trends for Summer 2014 – COMPRESSION

COMPRESSION
Art Naïf and Spontaneity Or Craftmanship? Poet Or Designer?
Removed from cultural landmarks we reinvent the essential. It is not a blend of times but a blend of genres. An unusual regard, a capacity to create above and beyond the cultural landmarks. Spontaneity or a knowing calculation, we concentrate to preserve the essential. Economical use of means and simplicity do not stop technological prowess.

Time Warp, Cohabitation and Distortion Of Time
Vintage and research boost creativity. The past, present and future pile up to form one single period. This temporal juggling inspires exhibitions and feeds new distribution concepts. It sees the blossom of the neorealistic trend, the melodramatic aesthetic, heralds the rediscovery of the beauty of traditional developing techniques for photographic portraits and treats paintings like photography.

LE CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur Trends for Summer 2014 – MIGRATION

MIGRATION
Chemistry, One Element Impregnates Another
One element impregnates another and creates hybrid materials. Nature and research tessellate to create a new craziness. Technology has migrated and created a mutant and fantastic nature, a strange thing where the natural impregnates the artificial and the artificial drips onto the natural. From this fusion is born hybrid landscapes where architects, designers and landscapers roam.

Voyage, Nomadism, Wandering
We appropriate ancient civilizations and the authentic from elsewhere. Like birds and salmon, the individual has become migratory. In groups, for a fixed period, or free and solitary, he multiples journeys and unlikely destinations. He journeys via his imagination, or embarks in a real vessel and heads off to explore forbidden lands and expose himself to danger. He tries to find himself, to provoke new encounters and unexpected emotional clashes. Unknown landscapes haunt him, foreign foods fascinate. He travels the world in rafiot fishing boat, on a windsurfer or a floating-city cruise ship. A luxurious nomad or a pseudo hippy, “on the road again”, he moons around to regenerate the myth of the free-spirited backpacker.

Take Influence From Sources of Chaos
Look with wonder on damaged nature and restore the previously unimagined shine: enhance the strange and redefine the beautiful, dream the unlikely and create astonishment… Refined rawness, unexpected glamor, fantastic sophistication or gracious rusticity, textures opt for an ornamental, magic or marvelous style.

LE CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur Trends for Summer 2014

LE CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur Trends for Summer 2014

Take Influence From Sources of Chaos

Look with wonder on damaged nature and restore the previously unimagined shine: enhance the strange and redefine the beautiful, dream the unlikely and create astonishment… Refined rawness, unexpected glamor, fantastic sophistication or gracious rusticity, textures opt for an ornamental, magic or marvelous style.

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