Sport & Outdoor Preview: All About Mobility
Born to meet the performance demands of sports and extreme activities, technical fabrics have now made their way into city streets, offices, and even the most fashion-forward wardrobes. They are water-repellent, breathable, stretchable, crease-resistant… protecting without weighing down or restricting, combining safety with freedom of movement. Designed for effort, these materials have become allies for a versatile everyday life. More than just a trend, they represent a deeper shift that is establishing a new standard in clothing — mobile, hybrid, and multi-purpose.
Protective Lightness
Supporting every movement, freeing gestures, while ensuring real protection against the elements — this is the promise of today’s technical textiles. Influenced by the rise of activities such as climbing — both outdoors and indoors — they are gaining in lightness while pushing the limits of protection. Jacket-weight fabrics are becoming thinner and more fluid while maintaining their essential performance. The three technical layers are being reinvented: finer, waterproof, breathable, and bi-stretch, designed for ultra-lightweight protective outerwear that hugs the body without constraint. True Swiss Army knives of the contemporary wardrobe, these materials embody the outdoor spirit — practical, agile, and functional.
Multi-purpose and Hidden Performance
Running, cycling, climbing: these practices are now fully integrated into urban daily life, flowing seamlessly between work and leisure. In response to this lifestyle that navigates between different worlds, textiles blend visual sobriety with technical performance, thus reconciling city style with sporting comfort. Beneath this apparent discretion, the materials reveal advanced technicality.
Lightweight and supple, these materials sketch new silhouettes with generous volumes, animated by draping and fluid falls where freedom of movement comes first. Bi-stretch pant-weight fabrics emerge as a hybrid alternative between leggings, joggers, and outdoor trousers. Both comfortable and more city-appropriate, they offer ideal versatility to effortlessly accompany the diversity of daily activities, becoming essentials of the urban wardrobe.
Discover the full Sport & Outdoor trends for the Autumn-Winter 26-27 season in the Manufacturing, Sport & Outdoor and Lingerie & Corsetry Focus at Première Vision Paris, on September 16, 17 and 18, 2025.
