Le Cuir À Paris asks for tanners’ samples
30/11/2009
The organisers of the Le Cuir À Paris exhibition has issued details of five ‘creative atmospheres’ that will make up the fashion trends tanners will have to meet for the summer 2011 season. And tanners are asked to send samples that correspond to the textures and colours described below for the trends gallery at the next edition of the show, which takes place between February 9 and 12.
“Something’s happening,” the trends consultants working with the exhibition have said. “We have entered a new era of freedom. We don’t know what will happen next.”
For this reason, the five ‘creative atmospheres’ they have predicted will add what they call “a zest of dissidence and lots of irony”, so that the leather designers will seek to use for the summer 2011 season will be “joyful and impertinent”.
The first is called Archaic Garden, in which “primitive joins forces with antique”. Many of the colours the consultants have highlighted here “bear forgotten names” of fruits and flowers, including kumquat, tuberose and rosewood. The range is whitened, stony, mineral or delicately fruity.
Next is Underwater Variation. Here, ebbing and flowing with the tide, we swim under the current, dive into abysses and explore the ocean depths.
We discover marine flora and fauna,
submerged cities, buried amphorae and pots.
It represents a mysterious world, on a stormy summer’s day.
The range delves into the blue, and extends to an aqua green. Sea anemone pink is
enhanced by inky blues and purples. Navy and brown darken the landscape. White soap
bubbles refresh the saturated atmosphere.
The third atmosphere is called Tropical Dramaturgy. Here wild nature plays all its cards, calling on Rousseau to lure us into a game of Paradise Lost with all its misleading tricks. Pretty green vines encircle us, exuberant flowers wait to devour us. The range is solar, incandescent, spicy and suffocating. Yellow singing at the top of its voice, uninhibited parrot green, the orange of Tibetan monks, the entire spectrum of reds from purple to salmon pink, along with bushy brown, deep blue.
Shadowy Shores is a static, undefined place between Cyrene and Cartagena, between Libya and Syria. Desert of sand, desert of sea, wreckers, pirates, warriors from another era. There is “ambiguous shade and dulled light”, which illuminate the decks of ships run ashore, rusty anchors, ragged sails, driftwood, soft-shell crabs and tortoise shells. The range is tinged with vegetal colours, bathed in red, boat hull, dark navy, strong green, canvas, or lightened colours, bleached by the salt, faded by the sun and the sea.
The final ‘atmosphere’ is called Enchanted Picnic, which the trends consultants say evokes ‘folies’ in Versailles, rave parties in Schönbrunn, “murder in an English garden” or “Jacques Tati on vacation in a golden carriage”. Here, technical research and reasoned ecology show their
“impertinent sides”.
The neon colours are whitened. Jelly pink is transparent, the pastels are over-bright. The brights are on fire, tempered by a reasonable grey and a measured beige.
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