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- 15 key areas designed to foster an effective and stimulating exchange between international buyers and the creators of yarns, fabrics, leathers and furs, decorations, accessories and apparel sourcing.
- A pathway dedicated to discovery, deciphering and inspiration.
- A trail designed to quickly find one’s bearing in the season, and thus not miss any of the news selected by the fashion teams.

The first steps on the road to spring-summer 13, to whet the appetite for news. An area that plays on notions of addition as a factor for innovation and creation, displaying exclusive developments created especially for the season, along with selections from the best exhibitor collections.

Hotspots of indispensable inspiration and information. Key areas designed to stimulate a lively, efficient interaction between the creators of yarns, fabrics and designs and international buyers. A pathway providing a means to discover, decipher and be inspired by the autumn winter1213.

General Forum / Hall 5 - Aisles L-N
A forum to dive into the essence of the autumn winter 1213 season. Discover a unique and surprising atmosphere, the season's most representative fabrics, the most cutting-edge colours and directions. An area to be drawn into the flow of the season, to be stunned and surprised by the fashion innovations of tomorrow, with the nominees of the 2011 PV Awards.

Latest News Forum / Hall 6 - Aisle R
The season's very latest fabric creations, brought in by exhibitors the evening before the show's opening and arranged in display overnight. An area to discover the very latest developments, with enlightening and explanatory quotes from exhibitors.

The autumn winter1213 Film / Hall 6 - Aisle R
An immersion in sounds and images, in the rustlings of fabrics and all the bursting aesthetic influences of the season. Be turned about in the swirl of words, and soak up complementarities to build new fashion planets.

Seduction Forum / Hall 5 - Aisles A-C
Capture the energy of the most outstanding fabric creations from the fluid and fancy universe, with silks, prints, lace, embroideries, ribbons, knits, fancy woollens and fake furs, for fashionable, everyday, elegant or spectacular silhouettes.

Relax & Distinction Forum / Hall 6 - Aisles H-L
From formal to casual, from jeanswear to the truly exceptional, this space proposes a contemporary reading of the products from these two universes, providing a true dialogue between suitings and sportswear, between elegant casualwear and comfortable citywear. All the ingredients to build the entire silhouette, with products for small and larger knit items, for shirts, pants, suits and coats.

Pulsation Forum / Hall 6 - Aisles E-F
An area dedicated to creations from the sports, technical and performance universe: knit and woven technological innovations targeting extreme sports, lingerie and clothes for everyday.

Actualisation Forum / Hall 5 - Aisles F-G
This forum displays essential fabrics and fashion directions so buyers can realize their final silhouettes for spring-summer 12. A cutting-edge selection made on the basis of surveys of major international buyers.

A fashion area that invites visitors to grab hold of this poeticized city, where plant and urban silhouettes intersect, and be carried away by the playful signage featuring the season's key graphics emerging from the 1213 Influences, or selections from exhibitors' collections.

The inspirations of Winter 2012-13 allow us to be “footloose and fancy free” with our feelings. The Trend Gallery showcases skins, furs and textiles in organised chaos. Delight, Enthusiasm, Amazement and Upset will guide materials and seduce us. A synthesis of a selected and unique range of the finest production from tanners, furriers and coaters.

DISPLAY
The general forum DISPLAY unveils the trimming trends for the men's and women's ready-to-wear, casualwear and sportswear markets. A source of inspiration and an essential place of the show, DISPLAY offers a wider vision of the products showcased at ModAmont through exhibitors' samples and finished products customized. Display inaugurates a new scenography. The themes of this new season are interpreted in a constructivist spirit and the range of colours for the Interlocking theme will be represented in 3D.

LEATHERGOODS & SHOES
This forum is entirely dedicated to the sectors of luggage, leather goods, belts, footwear, gloves and small leathergoods, it displays a unique offer of buckles, zips, chains, ornaments and other components that have a direct application of these markets. The theme proposed this season is based around the idea of an Imaginary Museum, 4 themes will be covered in a theatrical décor.

JEWEL CASE
Jewel Case, the area dedicated to fashion jewellery has become a permanent fixture of ModAmont's fashion information. The scenography reworks the display case theme to present the various jewellery components, the exclusive prototypes and the finished products which illustrates the season theme: “Onirism & futurism”

INDEX
This entrance hall allows visitors to focus their product searches and organise their visit to the show. Each exhibitor showcases a sample of the product ranges on offer for this season. The Index is both a catalogue and a library of materials, which illustrates the market sectors and showcases the excellence of the know-how of all the exhibitors present at the show.

Fashion blogger and photojournalist Hervé Dewintre has lovingly photographed and compiled a “diary” of catwalk shows by 10 up-and-coming couture designers. These snapshots of behind-the-scenes work are a tribute to the passion of young fashion designers and French couture skills. Artistic experimentation, a love for tailoring, exceptional skill and traditional craftsmanship – Paris is hosting a new generation of international designers in a one-of-a-kind atmosphere favouring the emergence of a genuine new concept of luxury. Established names are on show alongside young talents at Zoom by Fatex.