This autumn, Parisian trade show Première Classe has ceded its usual Tuileries Gardens venue to the Olympic Games, moving a few hundred metres away to the Carrousel du Louvre, the shopping centre located beneath the Louvre’s inverted-pyramid skylight. The fashion accessories event, celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, will showcase nearly 320 exhibitors from Saturday 28 to Monday 30 September, during Paris Fashion Week Women, the French capital’s unmissable, most glamorous fashion event.

For its forthcoming edition, Première Classe, organised by WSN Développement and the sibling of another Parisian show, Who’s Next, which took place in early September, will recreate the atmosphere of a Parisian garden within the Carrousel du Louvre, a setting developed by local design agency Studio Costa Molinos (headed by Romain Costa and Adan Molinos).
 

Maximalist knitwear and geometric handbags

On the agenda: 320 exhibitors from all over the world (including 74 French brands), all of them presenting their latest fashion accessories and ready-to-wear collections; 22% of the exhibitors will be new entries.

A springboard for emerging designers, Première Classe will host a curated selection of eight up-and-coming international brands in the Brut Icon section, including German jewellery designer Isabella Rudzi, whose creations have an almost spiritual feel, and Argentinian designer Milagros Pereda with her 3D knitwear.
 
Also featured, the bold new creations by the winners of the Hyères Festival, Swiss fashion designer Gabrielle Huguenot and maximalist accessories designer Victor Salinier, as well as those by Christopher Esber and 3.Paradis, winners of the 2024 ANDAM competition, of which Première Classe is a partner.
 
Accessories will of course be the stars of the show. Like the glasses by French eyewear brand Pontet Eyewear, architectural bags by Parisian brand 10-03-53, leather designer belts by RFB, and colourful glass jewellery by another Spanish exhibitor, Cajal.

Among the French ready-to-wear exhibitors, new looks will be presented by emerging Parisian label Valette Studio, sustainable label Ouwa Paris (by designer Nabila Baziries), and Paris-based Egyptian designer Amina Galal, known for her love of XXL outfits.
 
Première Classe will also host a series of conferences in the Beyond the Noise section, with speakers including British milliner and dandy Stephen Jones, famous for his exceptional hats.

Première Classe trade show 
When: September 28-30 2024
Where: Carrousel du Louvre, 99, rue de Rivoli, Paris (1st arrondissement)