Heaps of Creativity

“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working.” Henri Matisse ILARIA MANIFATTURA LANE, Art. Carnaby FILATI BIAGIOLI MODESTO, Art. Aran Necessity leads to the greatest discoveries. The world scenario pushes us toward the need to reinvent our yarns in a more sustainable way but without compromising quality and imagination. Collections of higher quality and greater…

Multi-head but not multi-ideas

“Tomorrow’s truth feeds on yesterday’s error.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Toscano, art. Tecnogym Mister Joe, art. Ande Human history is a mixture of progress and repetition, we definitely are in a phase of great progress but at the same time we are repeating the same mistakes. We are approaching total microplastic pollution of all the world’s…

The Cyber Designer

Honestly, I am not too old for the metaverse, and to be honest, no one is; because in the metaverse we are all what we would like to be, with no age limits and no appearance limits. I live it every day on INSAGRAM, where now everyone, even the supersonic model of the new media…

Sandcastles

“A machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of an exceptional man.” Elbert Hubbard Lanificio dell'Olivo, art. Noir The Royal Co., art. Viseé We create extraordinary machines to make jacquard that look like photographs but every season knitwear is reborn from the hand knitting needles and…

Tridimensional Beauty

“True beauty is not something that can be seen, but felt” Lanificio dell'Olivo, art. Butterfly Di.VE', art. Crew Let’s face the arrival of spring together. Seasonal change is something traumatic, expected but always disruptive which can only be faced by firmly grasping a beautiful sweater that to the touch tells the story of this unexpected…

What are designers thinking?

“The Future is Handmade”  Tina Damgaard Lanecardate, Canberra Stretch Manifattura Lane Ilaria, Malachite A powerful spontaneous movement, started in our own houses, is setting trends and forcing spinners and designers to rethink their knitwear collections. Handmade, with coarse and colourful yarns, light and soft to make fast stitches with immediate output. Hand-made knitwear responds to…

The Touch Knit

The “Passion colors everything it touches.” Baltasar Gracián Each season is a new beginning, it’s a new opportunity to change and to tell the new emotions of our civilization. The designer interprets and narrates human nature in its present, detaching from the past and accompanying it towards the future. The fundamental ingredients for the summer…

Multiple voices

“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.” Howard Gardner OLIMPIAS, Art. Strike The combination of multiple cultural influences makes this season an intersection of colours and stitches, in a complex knitted web. We therefore find strong knitwear in global trends,…

Revolution

Autumn is the new winter! Pinori Filati, Art. Bubu Nm 6000 Filatura Papi Fabio, Art. Ecomanuel Nm 2/14000 This emerges from a lucid analysis of the weather, because nowadays, as well as working on the product, designers have to work on the context and be the first to process change. To design a knitwear collection…