APLF colour & material trends Fall/Winter 2025/26

by Olivier Guillemin [o,o] in collaboration with the Comité Français de la Couleur.

 

A season that seeks balance between profound opposites through multiple contrasts.
Contrasts of materials: mattes and shinies, compacts and lightweights.
Contrasts of colors: strong intensities and soft tones.
A desire for simplicity and discretion but also of radicality and extravagance.
Constructive dualities develop in the different themes.

Essential materials
Plunged lambs — Saffiano leathers — Quilted, smooth leathers — Leathers with regular grains — Leathers with rubbery — mat finishes
Second-skin suedes — Perforated nubucks — Ultra-smooth leathers — Grainy patent leathers — Lizard skins — Rex fake furs
Coated cottons — Padded flannels — Technical nettings — Cashmeres — Waterproof fabrics — Frosted edges

Motifs & Accessories
Embossed monograms — Classic micro and macro prints — Abstract motifs — Icy coatings — Brushed metals — Technical buckles and webbings

Naturally textured materials

Leathers with large natural grains — Vegetable-tanned leathers — Oiled split suedes — “Pony” calfs — Waffled leathers

Oxidized suedes — Buffalo-look leathers — Washed calfskins — Recycled leathers — Fish skins — Double-faced leather and wool

Natural materials worked like leather: palm leaves, pineapple leaves, etc. — Material patchworks — Heavy woolens — Wool felts Coated tarpaulins and canvases

 

Motifs & Accessories

Camouflage prints with hidden motifs (animals, botanicals…) — Vegetation and reptile embossings — Forest, bark, foliage motifs

Accessories in eco-responsible resin — Ties and cords with handworked details

 

Perfect & opulent materials
Caviar leathers — Peachskin suedes — Braided leathers — Iridescent leathers — Pleated leathers — Lacquered leathers
Stretch leathers and suedes — Velvety leathers — Suede and leather laces — Crocodile-embossed leathers — Ostrich leathers
Long, silky-haired furs — Fake astrakhan furs — Moiré silks and satins — Matte silk velvets — Rhinestoned mesh nettings

Motifs & Accessories
Ornamental and baroque prints — Lace motifs — Ostentatious braidings — Ruby and topaz-style accessories — Tone-on-tone motifs
Satiny metal accessories — Silk fringes

Spectacular materials

Ultra-smooth leathers — Leathers with geometric grains — Quilted calfskins — Super-shiny leathers — Leathers with embossed motifs

Cracked patent leathers — Leathers with shot reflections — Perforated leathers — Leathers with metallic flashes — Patent leathers and vinyls

Watersnake skins — Smooth, quilted nylons — Double-faced patent leather and mesh — Waterbased PU — Pearlized and shot nylons Fabrics with metallic coatings

 

Motifs & Accessories

Kinetic prints — 3D motifs — Graphic accessories — Ultra-lacquered metals — Artificial shine — Ethno-futurist motifs

 

About APLF

We bring leather, material and fashion businesses together: an opportunity to meet and greet face to face. We bring them from all parts of the world so that they can find fresh partners, discover new customers or suppliers and keep ahead of industry developments.

 

We organise a number of trade exhibitions which focus on fashion and lifestyle: sectors that are constantly in flux, so visitors and exhibitors alike need to be constantly aware both of the changes around them and those forecast for coming seasons.

 

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