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Seasonal colour and material directions, the research areas of yarn and fabric fairs, trend books and curatorial work. Which way, and why?
Velvet Is Back, but Not as Nostalgia: Première Vision's Six Material Families
Première Vision has defined six material families for Autumn-Winter 27-28. What they share is a new relationship with time: wear, fading and localised discoloration are no longer flaws but design decisions.
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Texworld Split the Season into Twelve Signals: the Autopsy Trend Book
The Paris sourcing fair built its Autumn-Winter 2027-2028 trend book on twelve named creative signals instead of conventional trend groups. Its art directors are Louis Gérin and Grégory Lamaud.
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Heimtextil Treated the Home as a Performance Space: Home-Maxxing 27/28
The Frankfurt home textile fair's direction sets the display of technical competence against a search for sensory respite. Curation is with Milan's Alcova, and one heading stops hiding the screw, the seam and the zip.
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Colour's Calendar Is Set Two Years Ahead: Intercolor and Türkiye's Place in It
Founded in 1963, Intercolor brings together seventeen national colour bodies and discusses each season's colour twenty-four months ahead. Türkiye is among the members. November's Paris congress will look at the second half of 2028.
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Pantone Chose a White for the First Time: Cloud Dancer
Pantone named PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer its Color of the Year 2026. It is the first white to take the title in the institute's history, and the reasoning rests on attention rather than colour.
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Glass Without Quarrying: the Silica Paolina Kühr Grows from Algae
A material added to the Future Materials Bank has microalgae produce silica, glass's basic raw material, instead of extracting it from a quarry. The entry's proposal is plain: materials can be grown rather than mined.
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A Soviet-Era Tile and Roadside Soil: Soily
A material added to the Future Materials Bank in April 2026 combines a salvaged clinker tile body with the soil of the place it sits in. Its colour is therefore not chosen but taken from the ground.
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Pitti Filati's Research Area Chose Discipline: Spazio Ricerca 2027/28
The Florence yarn fair's research area built its Autumn/Winter 2027-28 knitwear direction on equestrian disciplines. Its curators put the tension between order and freedom at the centre.
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Milano Unica Called Hand Skill Punk, and Named Its AW 2027/28 Palettes
The Italian fabric fair built its Autumn-Winter 2027/28 direction between craft and punk, and published eighteen colours by name across three families. Artistic director Stefano Fadda reads manual labour as a gesture of refusal.
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Première Vision Started the Season from Material: Living Matter and Twenty-Seven Tones
The Paris fabric fair gathered its Autumn-Winter 27-28 season under a single title and put material back at the start of the design process. Three scenarios and a twenty-seven shade range carry the reading.
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