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LE CUIR A PARIS’ Winter Trends
2008 / 09 |
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TRENDS
Winter 08I09 |
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CLIMATE
The weather rules our actions, shapes our moods, influences our look and triggers our desires.
Subjected to its whims, the materials of the season follow its caprices from storms to sudden showers,
from tempests to clear spells. Rough, cured, soaked, grazed, eroded, rusted, they are thrown up on a
hostile shore, whipped by the tempest under a raging sky. Soft, sensual, luxurious, transparent,
decorated, they warm the softly lit boudoir of a dancer from the thirties. Natural, balanced and vegetal,
they invade the leaf mould of woods and valleys. Fractal, icy, metallic and graphic, they vibrate in a virtual
world to fantasize over the vanished ice cap. Elegant, enveloping, substantial and supple, they invite us
to curl up on a stylish sofa or play with Lego on a colourful mat by the fire.
5 CLIMATE stories to tell, in materials, the seasons :
April Showers, Tempest, Bright spell, Radioactive, Mild spell |
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April Showers
Temperate Climate
Seeking protection and well-being, we wrap up with genuine fabrics and authentic leathers. We make a ritual of
daily tasks to make them pleasurable. The right measure, right weather, right product, it’s a celebration of blissful
balance. Act cool, calm and collected and enjoy watching time go by, slow food and slow design. Handicrafts
are recycled for fun; new affinities are forged between city slicker and Mother Nature. We recycle and draw on
the past to come up with new fabrics. Know how is brought up to date and folklore is given a contemporary twist. |
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Tempest
Winter turbulence
The elements are running riot, altering fabrics. Rusted, distressed by the weather, heavy and compact, they are
stacked up and layered over spider-web tulle voiles. Telluric forces have seized on fashion.
Chateaubriand's exotic lyricism, the ultimate romantic poets’ muse, provides inspiration. On winter beaches Down Under,
wreckers, Flying Dutchmen and tide-worn diving gear haunt tormented sea shores. Rough and ready rustic looks,
with a disturbing, tumultuous, wild side make a comeback.
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Bright Spell
After the rain, the sun
The Roaring Twenties, the Belle Époque, Art deco, Wiener Verskstatte and Bauhaus movements inspire a
sensual, graphic, voluptuous fashion. Dressing tables featuring marquetry, sheathed sofas and
stenciled flowers set on muslin voiles, all adorn a slender, supple silhouette. A small, boyish head and lined eyebrows for an
androgynous or ultra feminine, super-sleek allure. She skips lightly, flirting dangerously and sometimes putting on
an erotic masquerade reminiscent of the theatre or music hall. |
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Mild Spell
La Dolce Vita
Reworking your living space, balancing between warm design and general functionality. Rediscovering primary
colours, the world inhabited by Miró and Calder’s mobiles. Drawing inspiration from Joe Colombo and Italian
design from the Seventies to make products intelligible, come up with a solution, and hand over the keys.
Striking a middle path between the banal and the unusual, forging new affinities, modulating our desires,
incorporating contemporary design into everyday life. |
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Radioactive
After the bomb
Fascinated by UFOs and discoveries in outer space, such as chaos, black holes and light years, fashion imagines
a sidereal future, a fragmented universe, a desirable futurism, a virtual world, a parallel life that takes place in a
new dimension. The cut is mathematical, soft techno luxury borrows from Swinging Sixties design and Eighties
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COLOURS : WINTER 08I09
Colour is dematerialised and reified. Colours are found in layers, piles, and drifts, jostling one another and
interlocking. They are simpler, more sophisticated. They fade away, protect themselves, spread, compose and
decompose. They reassure and disturb us.
Four colour themes for this season :
Moss : Strata, layers, folds. Colour covers us with a porous vegetal layer.
Cover : The new primaries waver between fortifying food and tonic chemicals. Dense colours and healthy
rusticity.
Ribbon : Decadent romanticism, shipwreck, mystery. The colours conjure up the eroticism of a dark mane of hair,
the nocturnal rustle of evening gowns at supper time.
Filter : Frost crystals, glaciers, ice floes, glass architecture. Installed in a no man’s land, colours are veiled,
shaded, suggested and subtle. |
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For Further information:
Erica Caron
ecaron@sicgroup.com
The Societe Internationale du Cuir
105 rue du Fbg, Saint Honore,
75373 Paris Cedex 08
FRANCE
Tel : +33 (0) 1 43 59 89 33 or +33 (0) 1 43 59 89 44
Fax : +33 (0) 1 43 59 30 02
Website: http://www.sicgroup.com
Fair Website: http://www.lecuiraparis.com
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Submitted
by
Erica Caron, Press/Communication Manager, SIC SA |
Posted:
04 June, 2007 |
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