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Vol.08  Issue 03/10, 24.03.2008

WHO'S NEXT & PREMIERE CLASSE
Develop Global Approach

WSN Développement, the organizer of WHO'S NEXT and PREMIERE CLASSE, the Parisian fashion and accessory trade shows, has renewed its partnership with the CHIC trade show in Beijing and established a new partnership with the Montreal Fashion Week. The organisers of both trade shows will be present in Montreal, from March 25th to 28th and in Beijing, from March 28th to 31st, along with a selection of European designers.

WHO'S NEXT, Partner Of The Montreal Fashion Week - The MONTREAL FASHION WEEK, the essential fashion event in Canada

Each year for the last seven years, the Montreal Fashion Week welcomes, twice a year (in March and October) more than 10,000 professional visitors, among whom buyers, fashion industry representatives and medias from North America, Europe and Asia. With both a distinct personality and unique signature, blending European and North American cultures, the Montreal Fashion Week has offered us, session in session out, wonderful surprises.

French-Canadian Collaboration To Support Young Designers

The event organizer, Sensation Mode, thanks to the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (French-Quebec Office for Youth), who aims at initiating French-Quebec business partnerships, has wished to approach an essential fashion actor in Paris and chose WHO'S NEXT to welcome new European brands.
During the coming edition, from March 25th to 28th 2008, UBIFRANCE, the French Agency for International Corporate Development, along with WHO'S NEXT, will be taking to Montreal 12 young fashion designers supported by the OFQJ.

Among them, BENNYSPORT, NACO PARIS, AB IRATO, LES FEES DE BENGALE, SUZON ET LENA, ROSA KANNO, LES DILETTANTES, LILI SOBERLY, POULPICHE, VALENTINE GAUTHIER, URBAN LUX / B PRIV' and DAVID HERMELIN will be presenting their collections on a special showroom for professionals: distributors, retailers, importers, agents and journalists. This showroom will also be welcoming 35 brands from Quebec.

The Canadian Designers, at WHO'S NEXT & PREMIERE CLASSE in September 08

The Montreal Fashion Week will be expressing itself during WHO'S NEXT summer session, from September 4th to 7th 2008 at Porte de Versailles to present the collections of Canadian designers that made the news during the 14th edition of the Montreal Fashion Week in March 08.

WHO'S NEXT and PREMIERE CLASSE Promote The French Touch At The CHIC - Confirmed Partnership With The CHIC

To reinforce their position in China, WHO'S NEXT and PREMIERE CLASSE have been collaborating since 2006 with the only Chinese fashion trade show, the CHIC, organized by the Chinese National Clothing Federation and taking place once a year in March.
With more than 600 exhibitors et 50 000 visitors, it's a reference on the Chinese market that has, on the high and middle-range ready-to-wear segment, a potential of more than 300 million buyers!

THE WHO'S NEXT And PREMIERE CLASSE Pavilion

In March 07, the CHIC had set up a special village for WHO'S NEXT and PREMIERE CLASSE, for them to welcome a selection of 17 European brands exhibiting on both Parisian trade shows. The experience will be renewed from March 28th to 31st 08 on a larger surface, with 27 brands:
ECRU, 2 PAR 2, ADAM FOR EVE, AGNELLE, ALIX C, ANAIK INVITATION, ANGELA CAPUTI, BABYLONE, BLEU BLANC ROUGE, CLAUDE PATRICK, DESCOURS, FUEGO, JEROME L'HUILLIER, MALFROY, MELLOW YELLOW, MICHELLE MOISSAC, MOD'ART, NOVAPALM, PASHMA, QUAI DE SEINE, RACHEL GE, RODIKA ZANIAN, SEVERINE PERAUDIN, STOWEC, UN APRES MIDI DE CHIEN, YIN and ZIGA.

WHO'S NEXT & PREMIERE CLASSE -
Rank First On Developing Markets

The WHO'S NEXT and PREMIERE CLASSE development policy shows WSN Développement's will to provide the exhibitors of both trade shows with quality services, by guiding them on markets enjoying a strong development potential.

According to their own selection standards and creative approach, the two trade shows have become a consulting and exhibition platform for the brands who wish to establish themselves on the European fashion market.

These collaborations aim at developing WHO'S NEXT and PREMIERE CLASSE's international influence and promoting their know-how on an international scale. Besides China and Canada, they are preparing similar operations in South America and Asia.

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