Paul Smith Blog

Thursday 17 September 2009

As you know last week I was in Milan to launch my new fragrance ‘MAN’ but also to go to a big fabric fair with some of my design team to select fabrics for winter 2010. I concentrated on selecting fabrics for suit jackets and trousers.

This week I was in Paris and apart from meeting some magazine people and being photographed for Liberation newspaper, I was again selecting fabric at Premier Vision fabric fair. I had lots of helpers, design staff from Britain and Japan.
We have many different collections (13 I think, if you include shoes and accessories) so it’s quite a big job, making sure they all have their individuality and fabrics in lots of different types, qualities and prices.
We develop lots of our own fabrics and design our own prints in the studio which are exclusive to us.