European Parliament approves Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Focus on Transparency and Supply Chain Impacts

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDD), the aimed at preventing and mitigating corporate impacts along the supply chain, takes another important step forward with the European Parliament voting in favor on June 1. The Directive, presented by the European Commission on February 23, introduces the concept of corporate responsibility for sustainability and human rights…

The Silk Road

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.…

It’s polo time

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…

Across the board

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

Diffused Innovation

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…

Contradictions enhance opposite innovative solutions in knits

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…