Spring-Summer 2024 heralds a growing interest in refined yarns and knits in which silk will have an important place with all its variations and precious characteristics. Among the best-known yarns, those with a bright, delicate and light appearance win in particular, where the fiber expresses all its excellence, but also associated with other top-of-the-range fibers.…
The Green Claims Directive on the substantiation of environmental communications came out on March 22. Approval by the European Parliament and Council is expected in mid-2024. The Green Claims Directive was created with the aim of encouraging the use of clear, reliable and verifiable green claims in all countries of the European Union, to protect…
Part shirt, part T-shirt with collar. Some have buttons, some do not. Polo-style knitwear is reworked in every possible way, injecting some light innovation into this versatile, everyday piece. Sportmax insets it with lace while Proenza Schouler carefully manages the size and fit in a pleasant jade green. Adeam’s gilet and Deveaux’s chunky knit nod…
The complex diversity of our different roots and traditions. Free associations, mixing and interference between distant cultures. The authentic knowledge of craftsmanship, a mix of patterns, stitches and effects, the beauty of imperfection and handmade. Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini
Innovation runs fast and always discovers new opportunities to support creativity, sustainability, speed of realization and diffusion of the finished product. The yarns, the absolute protagonists for quality knitwear with a contemporary style, performing and increasingly pleasant to wear, push themselves towards the search for new materials with unexpected origins to respect sustainability, to promote…
What is vegan and what is sustainable? The two terms do not mean the same thing, quite the opposite. Consciously or not, many fashion brands misuse the former. And there are not a few cases of those who profess to be vegan without equal attention to the environment. Let’s set the record straight to help…
A single movement enveloping the body and following its every step. There are plenty of knit dresses available next Spring/Summer. Maxi metallic mesh or denser honeycomb (Chloé and Max Mara), long vest dresses with details (Blumarine and Jil Sander), aerodynamic cut-outs and openings at Fendi, Michael Kors and Off-White: all these styles feature a combination…
With knits we can move seamlessly between superfine, smooth and fluid qualities to coarse, strong, stiff effects, providing contradictory solutions as to fibers’ blends, yarn construction, finishing processes. This represents a revolutionary approach to garment design, combining the elegance, comfort and functionality with new shapes and extreme volumes, opening to sporty market segments, as well…
Our thinking on wonder is often distracted, superficial, careless. We think of it as an unimportant added extra; we often relegate it to childhood and dismiss it as sentiment that has little to do with being an adult. We tend to be complacent about it, as if it were a weakness or did not concern…
Often associated with comfortable homewear and bordering on the banal, the cardigan is enjoying a comeback. Fringed and oversize at Ports 1961, chunky and honeycomb at Brunello Cucinelli, technical at Miu Miu, and optical with geometric buttons at Missoni. Fasteners come in an eclectic variety of styles: plastic appliqués at Christopher Kane or lacing at…
