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Who’s Next, Impact, Neonyt, Bijorhca, Curve, Exposed & Interfilière - 8-10 September 2024, Paris

Bouncy Thirties celebrates 30 years of springing emotions at Who’s Next, alongside IMPACT and NEONYT Paris, Bijorhca, Curve Paris, Exposed and Interfilière Paris. To celebrate these decades of shaking up the fashion ecosystem, Who’s Next is rolling the dice for an exhilarating game in which business strategy rules, creative freedom reigns...

EventPress Release

The new design salon MATTER and SHAPE announces exhibitors and partners

MATTER and SHAPE announces the first exhibitors and partners that will participate in the inaugural edition from the 1st to the 4th of March in an ephemeral space in Paris, Jardin des Tuileries. Selected exhibitors include: Alessi (Italy), Artment Dep (South Korea), BD Barcelona (Spain), Bocci (Canada), Bitossi (Italy), Flos (Italy), Grau...

CulturePress Release

New design event in Paris, Matter and Shape will make its debut in March 2024

MATTER and SHAPE (from 1st to 4th March 2024) is a unique design exhibition that is set to take place in the heart of Paris during the Spring 2024 fashion week. The event, which will be held in the iconic Jardin des Tuileries, is a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together emerging talents, established designers, historical and new...

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Lingerie’s entanglement with fashion: Salon International de la Lingerie celebrates 60 years

It’s easy to forget the breadth of change that has happened over just 60 years, and what those shifts have done for the fashion industry as a whole. One sliver of that is lingerie, a now incremental part of the women’s wardrobe that has naturally incurred revolutions of its own. Yet, while fashion and lingerie may seem intrinsically linked, this...

Fashion Partner Content

Frédéric Maus (WSN): "Who's Next, the Must-Attend Event for the Fashion Ecosystem, Returns from January 20-22 with New Products, Trends, and Business Solutions Dedicated to Independents"

Who's Next is propelling us into orbit towards new spaces to connect with these Creative Monsters: what we're presenting is an immediate departure from the earthly plane with 'Freaks from Designers'. From January 20th to 22nd, 2024, the world's largest concept store will celebrate the beauty of fashion, showcasing the diversity and unity it has...

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Sylvie Pourrat (WSN): “Première Classe continues to act as the international benchmark for design in the fashion accessories segment”

In the wake of the January shows put on by WSN Développement - which proved to be a hit - Première Classe, the event showcasing the largest number of accessory collections, will be part of the Paris Fashion Week from 3 to 6 March at the Jardin des Tuileries. Since its début in 1989, the show has been known for its unmatched line-up of designers...

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Frédéric Maus (WSN): “We are creating an event that is unique in the world”

“An introspective journey, a moment adrift in which all are invited to lose themselves in order to better rediscover themselves. ”The new Who’s Next “District Fantasy” campaign, illustrated by Clotilde Carton, embodies a journey through colours which converts spaces into a labyrinth by means of a kaleidoscopic spectrum. And it’s also because...

Fairs

Who’s Next organiser WSN to operate Salon International de la Lingerie and Interfilière Paris

WSN, the organiser of French womenswear trade show Who’s Next, is adding two new fairs to its portfolio: Salon International de la Lingerie and Interfilière Paris. The move, which marks WSN’s expansion into the lingerie category, will “complement our global strategy”, said WSN chief executive Frédéric Maus in a release. The next editions of...

Fashion

IFM and Birimian launch accelerator program dedicated to African emerging brands

Paris-based fashion school Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) announced a partnership with Birimian, the first operational investment company dedicated to African luxury and premium heritage brands. Birimian and IFM are launching the IFM-Birimian Accelerator x Africa, an innovative acceleration program for emerging African heritage brands in the...

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«We are launching IMPACT to bring optimism back to fashion», Frédéric Maus (Managing Director of WSN)

Among the things that have been done and the things that should no longer be done; how to wear one’s jacket (the right way round)? On the margins of a changing fashion, ever more sustainable and responsible, Frédèric Maus, managing director of the WSN Development Group, will for the very first time, from 6 to 9 September, at “Who’s Next” in...

Fashion Partner Content

“Today, we are the largest concept store in the world,” says Frédéric Maus (WSN)

Fashion is alive, it has to be de-compartmentalised, made more human. That is the gamble being entered into by Frédéric Maus, the new joint managing director of WSN Développment. In a few days, from 07 to 10 September in Paris-Porte de Versailles, Who’s Next and Première Classe will be celebrating the influence of African fashion in the...