EXHIBITOR SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA
Selection criteria
Première Vision is a selective salon. Access to the salon is restricted to companies who produce and sell fabrics destined for the apparel market, companies whose dossiers have been accepted by the Selection Committee, who are there to ensure the constant enrichment of the salon's overall offer.
Meeting one or several of the criteria mentioned below is not sufficient for a dossier to be accepted. Applicants must refer to and provide information pertaining to each criterion in their dossiers.
The following criteria are taken into account in the selection process:
QUALITY AND CREATIVITY
Applicants must help strengthen the pertinence of the salon's offer for each market segment represented in the salon.
CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT OF ORIGINAL COLLECTIONS
Selection is made individually for each clearly identified product line. A company with several collections within the same corporate body must detail in its application dossier all product lines it intends to present at the salon. The applicant may be refused the right to present one or several collections at the salon if these collections do not meet the necessary criteria.
To be selected each product line must be the result of a recurrent creative process that is unique to the company, and which results in a significant seasonal updating of the articles proposed. Each collection presented must be characterised by its coherence and an identifiable fashion/market orientation.
PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT
Première Vision favours collections benefiting from directly controlled production equipment.
QUALITY OF SERVICE
The selected company must provide such services as are pertinent to a complex, targeted and international market. Criteria such as short deadlines, reduced order minimums and special developments will be considered positively in the selection process, without being sufficient for a dossier to be accepted.
ABILITY TO RESPOND TO INTERNATIONAL DEMAND
Whatever its country of origin, the company must be satisfactorily capable of addressing the global demand for samples and production as expressed at the salon.
COMMERCIAL REPUTATION
The applicant cannot be tainted by known ou disputes, in particular in the area of counterfeiting, with exhibitors and/or buyers well known to Première Vision.
On the contrary, it must be supported by a portfolio of clients and suppliers, who themselves enjoy top international reputations.
FINANCIAL SENIORITY AND SOLIDITY
Applicants must demonstrate a legal and operational existence of at least two years. Appreciation will be given to the capacity of the candidate to satisfy its short-term deadlines, to maintain and develop its activity in the mid term. Accounting and legal documents must be submitted to the Committee.
RESPECT OF ETHICAL CRITERIA
Companies that do not respect the social and environmental criteria commonly agreed upon by the major decision-making bodies (the ILO, the EU, etc.) cannot be selected.
Selection process and participation conditions
• All weaver-exhibitors at Première Vision must first be selected by the Selection Committee, and the take-over of an exhibiting brand or company does not equal selection of the buyer for any other product lines or activities that have not been previously selected.
• Application dossiers are delivered by the Application Service on the basis of an informed initial enquiry, and only dossiers deemed acceptable by the Application Service shall be presented to the Selection Committee: complete dossiers, answering to the current selection criteria, accompanied by the necessary elements (collections, presentation of collections, annual statement, etc.)
• Selection of applicants is made for the Paris edition of Première Vision. This result is valid for all other shows of the brand.
• An exhibitor whose evolution of collections, business activity, financial situation and/or commercial practices put it outside of the salon's selection criteria may no longer be invited to participate in following editions.
• All change related to business activity, product offer, financial structure or commercial practice brings a company's participation in the salon into question. Admission and participation in the salon are valid only for the conditions under which the company was admitted.
• An application rejected by the Selection Committee cannot be renewed before two editions.
