Jacquard focus for PV Denim

22/05/2025
Jacquard focus for PV Denim
The organisers of PV Denim are exhibiting their support for creativity by spotlighting the concept of hybrid denims, the theme of its trend forum for Autumn/Winter 26/27, with a special focus on jacquard constructions. Swedish textile designer Kelly Konings delivered a talk on her work in which she demonstrated how the two-dimensional fabrics that weaving produces can create three-dimensional products. This, she said, makes it possible to bridge the gap that usually separates the textile engineer from the fashion designer.

“We see denim evolving towards hybrid forms specifically in the luxury market using jacquard constructions,” Desolina Suter, head of fashion at Première Vision, told Inside Denim. She mentioned the work of Aurélia Leblanc, also on show in the trend forum, as another example of innovative artisanry using leftover denim fabrics to create hybrid products.

Exhibitor Kilim Denim has featured its new range of jacquard denim fabrics that the Turkey-based denim mill is seeking to develop. “We do not impose minimum order quantities for these fabrics, and we have a library of a hundred designs that customers can choose from, or they can have their own motifs and patterns made,” Isil Candan, Kilim Denim sales manager, told Inside Denim. The range can be made in four different colours, in weights spanning 7 to 14 oz, and the fabrics can also be overdyed for added depth of colour.

Pantone’s Moka colour of the year is another key focus of many products exhibited at PV Denim, which is on today in Milan. Isko for instance, has developed a series of denims with brown or burnt casts, waxes, overdyes, and such. Brown appears to be viewed as another way that denim mills can expand the palette of traditional denim aesthetics.

Photo shows a Kelly Konings design for Italian mill Gommatex created for the PV Denim trend forum.