For the third year, christmas trees are ‘fashion dressed’ in Paris!
Students from design school Ecole Supérieure des Arts appliqués Duperré unveiled 30 festive creations.

Made in various materials, from books to plexiglass to cloth, and in majority in white and silver, the trees were judged by an expert panel from the French fashion, such as designers Jean-Claude Jitrois, Franck Sorbier, and Gaspard Yukievich.

Students Floriane Leblong and Milane Pujolle gained the top price for their joint design, Fusion Glacée, a brillant plexiglass creation that evoked snowflakes falling to form the silhouette of a tree, with a tiny tree embedded in each snowflake.

The exhibition will last till 5 January 2010.

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According to IFM studies, French textile production dropped a whopping 25 % during the first eight months of 2009. There is nothing exceptional about France’s performance in Europe, as on average, European Union member countries have seen their textile production deteriorate 20 % this year in comparison to 2008. Textile producers, faced with competition from China and Turkey, are also heavily impacted by the crisis their customers in manufacturing are enduring.

Extract of an editorial written by Gildas Minvielle and published in the “Lettre Economique” of November 2009, from the Institut Français de la Mode’s economic observatory, a monthly Economic Trends Newsletter which is an informational monitoring tool aimed at professionals in the sector, that detects and analyses changes and trends in the sector.

Read the whole article:
http://www.ifm-paris.com/asp/fr2/econ_obse_4_1_lettreconj.asp