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SHOW REPORT

SEPTEMBER 2016: PREMIÈRE VISION PARIS

STRENGTHENS ITS LEADERSHIP IN A

CHANGING MARKET.

PREMIÈRE VISION PARIS: A UNIQUE, HIGHLY EFFECTIVE CONCEPT

In the course of its development over the years, Première Vision has emerged as a key player in the organization of events and shows for the global fashion and textile industry.

Its international appeal highlights a unique concept and values, which steer Première Vision and its brands in the development strategy of the group:

• The selectivity of an inventive, updated multi-sector offer - guaranteed by a Selection Committee.

• The creativity, quality and diversity of the innovative services at the disposal of visitors and exhibitors.

• A focus on promoting creativity, the formative component of change in the industry.

• Exclusive, unparalleled seasonal fashion information and analysis.

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A SEPTEMBER EDITION CONFIRMING THE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP OF PREMIÈRE VISION PARIS IN A CHANGING MARKET

Première Vision Paris welcomed a total of 56,475 visitors and 1,898 exhibiting companies. Its offer and overall visitor figures are unrivalled in the sector, thus confirming the dominant influence and leadership of the brand in the global market of professional fashion-industry events.

This represents an improvement over the February 2016 edition, with dual growth indictors: attendance (+ 2.7%) and number of exhibitors (+ 10%).

Thanks to the strength and effectiveness of the event's positioning, the show also registered a solid performance compared to September 2015, with a stable number of exhibitors (- 1.3%) and slight decline in attendance (- 8.8%).

Figures reflect a market heavily impacted and threatened by political tensions, security threats, weaker growth in emerging countries (China) or countries in real difficulty (Brazil, Russia...), as well as a downturn in global textile-clothing-leather consumption (- 0.3% in 2015).

The slight decline in attendance above all reflects necessary adjustments made by a visitorship that is 73% international - from 126 countries - juggling travel and organisation issues in the context of a constantly accelerating business pace.

Trade show visits are thus concentrated over fewer days, and conducted by tighter, directly operational teams.

Decision-makers, creatives and order writers... beyond the numbers, it's the quality and diversity of its visitors that characterize the Première Vision shows. This is true both in terms of their size - from independent designers, small and medium-sized companies, to international groups - and of their positioning - from major retail chains to luxury houses, including medium- and high-end fashion and accessories brands.

Première Vision Paris thus brings together the full diversity of a fashion industry seeking a creative, multi-activity sector One Stop Shop.

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TOP 10 VISITING COUNTRIES

— The list of top 10 visiting countries is broadly stable despite the security and economic risks (slowdown in consumption, negative climate factors...) that were amplified between the September 2015 and February 2016 editions, and this last September 2016 session.

— The top four European visitor countries remain unchanged - United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and France.

Germany, which has been overtaken by China and showed a slight in decline in visitors as compared to September 2015, showed steady attendance compared to last February.

The United States, with more visitors than in September 2015, remain the 7th largest visitor-country, marking a significant rise in their attendance over the February 2016 edition.

The fall in visitors from Turkey, which remains in 8th place, is largely a factor of this year's calendar - the Eid holiday fell on the same dates as Première Vision Paris - and of recent political tensions.

Lastly, Japan, which showed a decline in attendance compared to September 2015 and was surpassed in the rankings this year by Belgium, nonetheless saw a true increase in visitors compared to February 2016.

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WHAT EXHIBITORS WERE SAYING ABOUT US…

— In between client appointments, exhibitors shared with us their impressions of this latest edition of Premiere Vision Paris.

"It's our first time here. It's the perfect place to make contacts. There are visitors from France and Spain, but also Italians, Mexicans and Americans. On the other hand, the forums - we have 3 samples displayed - are very useful because many visitors come to our stand after having discovered our work there. Première Vision is always an important event, the leading one. This first experience is a positive one."

Rimafil – Première Vision Yarns

"For us, this edition is quite high in quality. We saw French that we expected, but also some Americans that we didn't expect to see, especially because of the New York Fashion Week."

Tissages Perrin – Première Vision Fabrics

"It's a good show for us, because it's an opportunity to see European customers - French clients of course, but also English, Germans and Italians. We also met Turks and Canadians. We think the show is good, but the global economic and political situation makes it a difficult market."

Fuga Couros – Première Vision Leather

"Beyond our day to day experiences, events such as Première Vision Paris allow us to expand our customer base. New opportunities are open to us and will probably affect the development of our future collections."

Nuprimary – Première Vision Designs

"The visitorship provides us new ways to expand our collaborations."

Lahu – Première Vision Accessories

"It's the first time we've come, and the show is very interesting. We met French, English, German and Swedish visitors. And North Americans too, both from Canada and the United States."

Suzhou Lanbeir – Knitwear Solutions

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WHAT OUR VISITORS SHARED WITH US...

— Visitors we came across in the aisles gave us their instantaneous impressions of Première Vision, its offer, and its evolution.

"It's the perfect event for a "mixing of minds". A place where minds can connect despite the variety of cultures and languages. Here, the language of creation is the same everywhere. People understand each other."

Zeynep Tosun, designer of the eponymous label (Turkey)

"I spend two full days at Première Vision and my schedule is super busy! Beyond meeting with suppliers, it's also a chance to load up on new styles and trends in the forums."

Avalanche Collections (Belgium)

"The consolidation of universes - especially in hall 6 — has made things easier for me. I find it more readable and more intelligent. I also liked the signage, with the colour codes. Traffic is more fluid than before."

A designer at Ghislain Fine Arts

"For the past several years, we've noticed a real evolution at Première Vision Paris. The segmentation of its different textile universes is much improved, and we have a lot of upstream information. (…) It would be very foolish not to visit the trend forums; their samples are so tied to what's happening at the show and in the market."

Peter Trainor, creative director of Max’n Chester (USA)

"There is nothing better than Première Vision Paris to meet everyone who counts in fashion. It's a key event to share inspiration and information for both the UK and Europe."

David Madaher, Print Designer, Sainsbury’s Tu (UK)

"Première Vision Paris is a real shot in the arm, it makes you want to start right in on your new season. There are real solutions to all our collection issues and challenges."

Delphine Grandjouan, designer for the House of Delphine couture house (Ireland)

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RESULTS OF THE FIRST PREMIÈRE VISION BAROMETER: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES OUTPERFORM GLOBAL INDEXES OF TEXTILE AND LEATHER PRODUCTION "How is the creative fashion industry changing? How are the Première Vision exhibitors doing within this market segment? How healthy is the sector?"

These questions so often posed by various industry players are now answered by the Première Vision Barometer dedicated to business activity in the creative industries.

Implemented as part of the IFM - Première Vision Chair launched in January 2016, the first Première Vision Barometer studied "the economy of creative materials for fashion." An innovative approach and a new index whose unique methodology offers a quantified way of measuring the 2015 business activity of textiles and leathers targeting creative fashion.

The Première Vision barometer consists of two indexes, expressed in percentage of change in production volumes:

• The PREMIÈRE VISION TEXTILE INDEX for the textile industry

• The PREMIÈRE VISION LEATHER INDEX for the textile industry

These indexes are compared to the global indexes of the textile and leather markets as registered by the United Nations (UNIDO index).

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4 KEY POINTS EMERGE FROM THE RESULTS:

1. The activity of the weavers and tanners grew in volume in 2015. A positive data point, knowing that in 2015 clothing consumption declined in almost all European countries, was stable in the U.S., and in difficulty in the BRICS.

2. The creative materials market is more dynamic than the world market.

3. In Europe, there has been a re-segmentation upwards of weavers' collections, which allows them to maintain turnover despite declining volumes.

4. The dynamics of the luxury sector, while slowed for the past several seasons, is bolstering the tanners' business activity.

In the near future, Première Vision will reveal the activity index for the first six months of 2016.

The organizer is also working to broaden this barometer to types of countries, or more specific know-hows. The production frequency of these indexes will enable the creation of a history, and trace changes in the market for creative materials for fashion over time.

>> Discover the complete results and Première Vision indexes in detail in the attached press release.www

In 2015, the PREMIÈRE VISION TEXTILE INDEX was +2.1%.

• The creative textiles market registered, on average, a + 2.1% increase in production in terms of volume over 2014. A figure quite close, though below, that of world production (+ 2.8%), due to the over-representation of emerging countries in the benchmark index. In fact, the Première Vision Textile Index notably exceeds the benchmark index in developed countries, where creative textile production was up + 1.6% as against -1.1% for the market as a whole, and in emerging markets showed a growth of + 9.6% versus + 4.6%.

In 2015, the PREMIÈRE VISION LEATHER INDEX was +3.9%.

• The creative fur and leather materials market recorded a rise of + 3.9 % in volume compared to 2014, which corresponds to a more sustained growth than that observed by the global production index, which reported a slight increase of + 0.9%.

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