Italian Excellence in Tokyo – 3 and 4 October, the “world tour” of Feel the Yarn Italian Excellence initiatives ended in 2018

The Tokyo appointment is the 12th organized in the Asian country and involved 130 Japanese companies. The workshop highlighted in particular the historical relationship of the consortium with the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, the main fashion university in the country. In the two journal of the workshop, hosted by the Bunka, there was also…

FTY – Italian Excellence in Shenzhen

Second edition of Feel the Yarn – Italian Excellence in Shenzhen – 11/12 september. A selection of the top 19 Italian Yarn suppliers for a private exhibition in Shenzhen This edition includes workshops and meetings between Italian companies and Chinese operators, a lecture on knitwear trends, an installation of garments made with Italian yarns from Chinese companies based on students’…

PORTS for FTY2018

Many awards were given to Pitti Immagine Filati 83 for the FTY2018 contest: a training internship in Shenzhen was assigned by PORTS, another sponsor of this edition, to Ellis Jaz of the Royal College of Art who based his project on Posthumanism, exploring genetic hybridization in the future evolution of the human species. Influenced by…

Trafi Creatività Tessile for FTY2018

One of the sponsors that this year supported Feel the Yarn in the awarding of the students who took part in the contest is Trafi Creatività Tessile who assigned a three-month internship to Büke Cayci of the Hoschschule Niederrhein who made his garments with the yarns of the Lanificio Dell’Olivo. The realized outfits express the…

Another beautiful edition of FTY: the winners

The Pitti Immagine Filati 83 edition ended positively in a lively atmosphere and with an optimistic vision for the future of knitwear. Many were the ideas that emerged from this event, to which the young designers who participated in the ninth edition of Feel the Yarn contributed with their creative proposals. Wins the FTY2018 award,…