An artistic crossroads as well as a trend decoder and know-how defender, PREMIERE CLASSE is also a talent spotter gathering the very best of accessories: shoes, bags, jewels, hats, scarves, gloves, umbrellas…

26th-29th SEPTEMBER 2014
PARIS, JARDIN DES TUILERIES

Busy activity at Premiere Class at Tuileries, Paris. Foto Henning Høholt

Plenty of interest at Premiere Classe, first day 26th
. September 2014. Foto Henning Høholt

Together with the October 1989 Paris Fashion Week in 1989, a fashion accessory showroom gathering 147 brands was organized at the Auteuil racetrack. One simple goal: to shift the international buyers’ attention from ready-to-wear fashion shows to fashion accessories, as well as create a showcase dedicated to all the accessory designers that anonymously work for famous brands
. Our organization team have doubled their efforts to select exhibitors all around the world, and put forward their creativity, know-how and collections.

At a time when consumer studies confirm the trend according to which women spend more on accessories than clothing, we’re proud to have focused on accessories and actively taken part in their development

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Creation: 1989

Detail from Premiere Classe 2014, at Tuileries. Foto Henning Høholt

Frequency: in March (for Fall-Winter collections) and October (for Spring-Summer collections)
Location: Jardin des Tuileries, Paris.
Exhibiting surface: 5,000 sq. m.
Exhibitors: 400
55% International, 45% France
Visitors: 17,000
60% International, 40% France
Retailers, department stores, buying agencies
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Journalists: 600

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VENDOME LUXURY

Three sisters (two are twins) are presenting the collection of the one sister to the right Peggy Hartanto at Vendome Luxury 2014 at Hôtel Le Meurice, Paris. Foto Henning Høholt

At the same time an even more luxuriouse event is going on, called VENDOME LUXURY. exposing many great international luxuriouse brand names at the two Hôtel Le Meurice and Hôtel D´Evreux and at Impertinence of Vendôme. 

Heavy Embroidered PATBO model, designed by Patricia Bonaldi at Vendome Luxury. Foto Henning Høholt

For this new event, which Carole de Bona will present twice a year, the founder of Vendôme Luxury wishes to place greater emphasis on the links between all forms of creation.Arnaud Laportewill from now on be collaborating with her as curator of VLA.In the prestigious Palace Le Meurice and in the courtyard of the superb Evreux Hotel, Place Vendôme, VLAoffers unconventional showcases for young artists, thus exceptionally highlighting their world.For this first edition of VLA, following a call for projects which received more than 120 proposals, Carole de Bona and Arnaud Laporte have chosen to present the work of Fred Sapey-Triomphe, with a collection of works grouped together under the heading “Ping Pong Screen”.On show from 26 September to 4 October at the Meurice and from 26 to 29 September in the courtyard of the Hôtel d’Evreux for VLA #1.

These two large expositions, Premiere Class and Vendome Luxury, are supplying each other very well, and are giving the buyers from all over the world, the international press, and others an extraordinary overlook of what the designer has in mind and want the womens to look like for the spring and summer 2015. And in deed, there is every thing for all tastes and money books.