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NewDes sito
NewDes sito

Feel the Contest 2022: it’s time to apply for New Designers and students

Our contest is open for application till the 14th of January, when a special jury will select the candidates for this new edition. Interested people just need to write to team@feeltheyarn.it or go directly to the private group of Fb “Feel the Yarn – For New Designers” and search for the “Mandatory information for applying”. The documents…

innov wewb
innov wewb

Knits face climate changes

The climate change emergency is the most relevant problem the earth is facing in these days, during the COP 26 meeting organized by the United Nations Organization. We all know that the textile industry is among the most polluting activities and serious investments have been made in Italy to develop circular strategies aiming at reducing…

ftyC sito
ftyC sito

n.12 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

eli web
eli web

Unstable equilibriums

Graphic lines and color abstractions, shadows and corroded, uneven surfaces: the flow and wear of time on things. Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini

sostenibilita web
sostenibilita web

The Sustainable Renaissance of the Fashion Supply Chain

The pandemic has put everyone to the test and the fashion industry has suffered substantially. Analysis from the consulting firm McKinsey showed a fall in profits of 93% in 2020, after +4% in 2019. Looking at it from a different perspective however, this sudden shock acted as an accelerator for sustainability, making it the first…

newdes sito
newdes sito

Feel the Contest 2022, registration is open!

The annual appointment with creation, fashion and knitting design is back, Feel the Contest is back. The twelfth edition is about to start. The 2022 formula has developed by looking even further into designers’ world, with an interesting shift to a phygital format. Not only talented students in their last year, but also young designers,…

style sito
style sito

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 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, strengthened by a…

sostenib sito
sostenib sito

Sustainable Fashion and Purchasing behavior. Focus on the Z Generation

There are many researches that investigate the purchasing behavior of consumers. Usually, what emerges is the greater sensitivity of Gen Z towards sustainability issues. This sensitivity, however, does not always have a coherent practical implication. Let’s see why. According to the research The Future of Retail Store and Customer Engagement in the New Normal, the…

amy 5032
amy 5032

Alternative choices

Knitwear is even more important in the prêt-à-porter collections, from the most traditional brands to the most innovative ones, no more as an accessory, but as the essential element, supported by its values of practicality, comfort and innovation. Of great interest is the availability of yarns that the Italian spinning mills have developed in tune…

fty choice sito
fty choice sito

n.11 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here what you are looking for (article’s name/code, composition, NM, etc.). Company:…

eli
eli

One, no one, one hundred

Fluid transformation and constant changing. Mobile, multiple, hidden and rewritable identities. Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini

eli sito
eli sito

Natural sensuality

An innate and natural erotism described in every shades of red, from skin pink, to violet, to brick red. Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini

style
style

Revolution

Autumn is the new winter! 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 in step with the times, in addition to being creative and innovative, the…

new des sito
new des sito

Introducing Marianastasia Giovanardi Gatti

One of the designers of the latest Feel the Contest tells us about her projects and 3D Software. Where did your passion for yarns and knitwear come from?  I started hand knitting when i was 5 years old with my grandmother. When the weather was bad we used to spend our afternoons knitting and crocheting…

Fluid in Tokyo FooterEN.
Fluid in Tokyo FooterEN.

“Fluid” AW 22.23 | Italian yarns collections in Tokyo

– OPENING HOURS – 12th – 13th October from 9,30 a.m. to 5,30 p.m. With Harajuku Hall 1-14-30 Jingumae, Shibuya City Tokyo 150-0001 REGISTER HERE 新型コロナウィルス感染症対策 ご来場の際には、検温実施、マスク着用、手の消毒をお願い致しますのでご了承ください。 ご協力いただけない場合には、入場をお断りいたします。 （もし検温の結果が37.5度以上の熱があった場合は、ご入場いただけませんので、ご了承下さい。） 各メーカーのブース内の定員は、代理店の担当者様を含めて5名とさせていただきます。 For more information and registration e-mail workshopfilatitokyo@gmail.com EXHIBITORS ACCADEMIA – INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI AVIA CASA DEL FILATO DI.VE’ E.MIROGLIO FILATI BIAGIOLI MODESTO FILATI NATURALI FILATURA…

innovation
innovation

Fluffy Softness

With the approaching of the Winter season grows the wish for protection, soft, light and fluffy. Yarns and soft knits stimulate all our senses and let us rediscover the tactile pleasure, post-pandemic. The sensorial comfort and thermo-physiological is often essential as a motivation for purchasing, decisive element for the expectations of comfort whilst wearing, for…

ftychoice
ftychoice

n.10 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

sustainability
sustainability

Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence: Germany beats Europe to the punch

If in Europe the publication of the bill that will make due diligence on human rights and environmental mandatory for all Member States has been postponed by a few months, Germany is moving forward with the approval of the Supply Chain Law. Licensed by the Bundesrat on June 25th, the law introduces new obligations and…

Fluid in London Footer
Fluid in London Footer

“Fluid” AW 22.23 | Italian yarns collections in London

– OPENING HOURS – FIRST DAY | Tuesday 14 Sept. – from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. SECOND DAY | Wednesday 15 Sept. – from 9 a.m. to 5,30 p.m. REGISTER HERE Registration for the event is highly recommended Covid-19 Health & Safety Information: access to the venue will be granted only to visitors showing…

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per sito 1

“Fluid” AW 22.23 | Italian yarns collections in Shenzhen

– OPENING HOURS – FIRST DAY | Monday 6 Sept. – from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. SECOND DAY | Tuesday 7 Sept. – from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information FTY Team e-mail team@feeltheyarn.it EXHIBITORS ACCADEMIA – INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI BOTTO GIUSEPPE E FIGLI CASA DEL FILATO FILATI BIAGIOLI MODESTO FILATI NATURALI FILATURA POLLONE FILITALY-LAB…

Fluid in Paris Footer
Fluid in Paris Footer

“Fluid” AW 22.23 | Italian yarns collections in Paris

– OPENING HOURS – FIRST DAY | Wednesday 8 Sept. – from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. SECOND DAY | Thuesday 9 Sept. – from 9,30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information FTY Team e-mail team@feeltheyarn.it DOWNLOAD THE CATALOGUE

STYLE
STYLE

Fluidification

This newsletter will not be about style, but about trends. This year, style will only be determined by those who can answer these trend questions! Are your ready? FLUID or NOT FLUID, that is the dilemma What will the winter season be like? The concept of fluid is not at all obvious. Fluid does not…

NEW DES
NEW DES

Introducing Raquel de Carvalho

This is Raquel’s story: the winner of the last Feel the Contest 2021 dedicated to new designers. Where did your passion for knitting come from? Before moving to London, I lived in Sao Paulo and I was studying fashion design at my university when I was one of the students  selected  worldwide to take part…

02 Copia
02 Copia

The three “R” of Circular Economy

In the fashion sector, the pandemic acted as a detonator, bringing out contradictions that have actually existed for some time. One of them is the disproportion between supply and demand: just twenty years ago, fashion houses came out with two collections a year, today some brands offer 24, one every 15 days! Clothes worn a…

05 Copia
05 Copia

Fluidity

Fluidity as a state of mind, as the capacity to adapt, change or transform. Fluidity as a constant process of change, as continuous creation of new and impermanent forms. Fluidity as an instrument of freedom, as a gateway to the new and the unexplored. Fluidity as the harmonious movement of the body. Finally, knitwear is…

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04

Natural elements for a natural style

The influence of sustainability motivates interesting new yarn qualities, based on a careful selection of fibres, on loose and voluminous constructions. A specific selection of the natural colours of the original fibres is a leading theme as well as the choice of undyed qualities. Smoothness and lightness characterize the yarns from the finest to the…

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01

n.9 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

Fluid in New York Footer 1
Fluid in New York Footer 1

“Fluid” AW 22.23 | Italian yarns collections in New York

REGISTER HERE Registration for the event is highly recommended Covid-19 Health & Safety Information: access to the venue will be granted only to visitors showing proof of vaccination or negative Covid Test within 48 hours (antigen/rapid test is allowed). Confirmation is preferred, walk-in accepted. It is requested to wear a mask at all times during…

6 WEB
6 WEB

Sustainability as a shared commitment. Feel the Yarn Charter of Values

Sustainability is a strategic choice that often implies a radical change in the business model. Radical changes are not achieved through spot initiatives or marketing actions disconnected from concrete projects, meaning real measurable and accountable performances. Sustainability is an obligatory path too, because all the market indicators converge towards this evidence. Challenging? Yes. Onerous? Of…

2 WEB
2 WEB

Sustainability attributes: watch out for differences

In the textile and fashion world, voluntary sustainability initiatives, brands, labels, third party certifications … in short, all the “licenses” that certify in more or less credible way environmental and social ethics of a company multiply day after day. Finding your way around is complicated both for companies in the supply chain who want to…

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3b078942 3876 ab38 d16c f613774005fd

The Sustainable Stylist

Spinning mills, knitwear factories and customers are making great efforts to try to balance  industrial production and sustainability. The heart of the fashion system is not the product but the creativity, the designer behind the collection. “The sustainability of the product lies in the style.” It is the designer who determines the fundamental choices of yarns,…

1 WEB
1 WEB

Extending the life of fibres and yarns

New production chains are increasingly developing to face the problems related to textile and plastic waste and to the necessity to save water, energy, fibres, materials by extending the life of fibres and yarns. Thanks to these processes recycled raw materials can be used to create innovative fancy yarns. Once discarded knitted and woven textiles…

Copenhagen Invito
Copenhagen Invito

Workshop in Copenhagen Sustainable Italian yarns | Fluid AW 22.23

The 15th of June, 25 Italian spinners will move to Denmark to show their new collections to Nordic customers. A big chance to know in advance the trends for the AW 22.23 in a safe, close by and relaxant venue. FTY companies are focusing more and more on sustainability and like to communicate their effort…

OUR NEWS web
OUR NEWS web

Happy little places

These times that have obliged us to limit and sometimes to cancel trips and movements, reminded me of a famous sentence by Proust. It more or less sounds like this: travelling doesn’t mean looking for new places but having new eyes. In fact if the lockdown has brought about a positive thing, it is the…

SUSTAINABILITY web
SUSTAINABILITY web

Fashion and environment: microplastics in our clothes poison even the Arctic Ocean. A decalogue to eliminate them from our wardrobe

35% of the 1.4 million billion microfibers present in the oceans comes from washing synthetic clothing, especially those of low quality. Is it possible to do one’s part to reduce the impact? The fact that even a remote and apparently pristine ecosystem such as the Arctic is invaded by microplastics is a clear sign of…

STYLE web
STYLE web

Post Bellum Knitwear

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom”.               -Bob Dylan Few of us have seen the war and yet we all feel like veterans. This feeling of loss of certainties, habits and freedom takes us back in time, to the 50s. These were the…

INNOVATION web
INNOVATION web

Radiance

New season, new adventure to live in a chromatic atmosphere of sunny shades, that are overexposed, energizing. A statement of positivity, the research of beauty, a condensed of contagious optimism to wear with pleasure, as opposed to the monotony of soft shades, with a touch of anarchy. A summer season expecting yarns with unusual and…

NEW DESIGNERS web
NEW DESIGNERS web

Introducing Wenke Müller

This is Wenke’s story: it talks about her passion for yarns and knitwear. Where did you start from?  I studied at the renowned art college Burg Giebichenstein and graduated as a fashion  designer in 2008. At the SDBI FASH competition, I was able to win the recognition award  with my diploma collection. This was followed…

FTYCHOICE web
FTYCHOICE web

n.8 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

OUR NEWS
OUR NEWS

The weight of lightness

In such difficult and uncertain times we need to get back to doing everyday things, like travelling, going out, meeting friends and family. But, what we really need is to feel  like these things are normal. We may have finally understood the importance of  lightness, and this should not be taken lighly. A story of radiant…

SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability Reporting

Making projects, measuring performance, communicating commitment. The Sustainability Report is the result of a process that companies carry out to highlight their economic, social and environmental performance to stakeholders. This definition and the broader ones by the European Court of Auditors or the Global Reporting Initiative, among others, emphasize precisely the term process, because the…

STYLE
STYLE

Lightly Knitted

“Simplicate and add more lightness” William Bushnell Stout Forget confinement and uncertainty typical of the winter season, dress lightly and go out with your mind free from negative thoughts. Go for a walk without your mobile phone, your watch, your fitness bracelet. Fashion is now pocketless, light, free of burdens and heavy thoughts. This can…

INNOVATION
INNOVATION

Let there be white!

WHITE, the colour of the suspension, of the expectation for something inponderable, prelude of important events that will engage our future. It marks the beginning and it’s the sum of all the colours. Classified among the “non colours”, it is actually a real crowd of tones; from white luminescence to natural white, from milky hues…

FTY CHOICE
FTY CHOICE

n.7 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

NEW DESIGNERS
NEW DESIGNERS

Free webinars on yarns and knitwear for new designers

Feel the Yarn organizes a cycle of 5 webinars focused on yarns and knitwear, dedicated to students from the best international fashion schools. The webinars are held by Ornella Bignami (Elementi Moda – Milano) with the special participation of testimonials from the spinning industry. We stronlgy believe in technical education in order to help students…

Workshop Tokyo aprile 2021 POST SITO
Workshop Tokyo aprile 2021 POST SITO

Workshop Tokyo SS22

13 and 14 April 2021, TOC of Ariake | Convention Hall, Koto City, Tokyo. The italian companies that exposed their SS22 yarns collections to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: CASA DEL FILATO SRL FILITALY-LAB SRL LINIFICIO E CANAPIFICIO NAZIONALE SRL PINORI FILATI SPA DIVE’ SPA FILPUCCI SPA LINSIEME FILATI SRL SERVIZI E…

SHENZHEN
SHENZHEN

Workshop Shenzhen SS22

On March 22nd and 23rd 2021, Four Seasons Hotel, 138 Fuhua Third Road, Futian District, Shenzhen the italian companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: ALPES MANIFATTURA FILATI SPA FILITALY-LAB SRL LANIFICIO DELL’OLIVO SPA PINORI FILATI SPA BOTTO GIUSEPPE E FIGLI SPA FILIVIVI SRL LINSIEME FILATI SRL SERVIZI…

SCARPINI
SCARPINI

The beginning of splendor

Spring In Proto Indo European, the word meant to hurry or to pounce, in Sanskritt to wish eagerly. By old English it meant to arise, to gush, to spring out, to arch upward. Each meaning of the word “Spring”is connected to a recovery, rebirth, youth, and the idea of a fresh start. It reminds us…

SOSTENIBILITA 1
SOSTENIBILITA 1

Organizational well-being: a strategic lever for businesses and the community

In recent years, we have heard a lot about organizational well-being and corporate welfare, often in relation to the sustainability strategy (real or presumed) pursued by management. However, do we really know the impact that these concepts have on the functioning of companies and on the community where they operate? To answer, we should talk…

STYLE
STYLE

Blossoming knitwear

“Where flowers blossom, so does hope” Mrs Johnson, USA’s First Lady,1963 Every choice we make has an impact on the planet, on the plants, and on the magic world of nature. Nature is an ode to cooperation and freedom. From the beginning, the vegetal and animal kingdoms have worked jointly to increase the natural wealth…

NEW DESIGNERS
NEW DESIGNERS

It’s almost time to vote for your favorite outfits

Feel the Contest is arriving at its final stage on digital: judging and voting the outfits to select the 5 finalists, who are going to compete for the absolute winner award during Pitti Immagine Filati (to be held at the end of June). The 27 contestants are finalizing their projects. Despite Pandemic’s troubles, they have…

INNOVATION
INNOVATION

Blooming nature, a message of rebirth

The Spring season opens with a colourful atmosphere: fresh, restoring, revitalizing tones that will help us to consider a more free and optimistic approach to future. The yarns expand from very fine qualities, shiny and fluid, with refined iridescent effects and graded shades to coarser qualities where the lustrous viscose enhances the contrast with random-dyed…

FTYSCHOICE
FTYSCHOICE

n.6 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

OURNEWS
OURNEWS

Towards a better place

In difficult times we need concreteness and safety. We need to move within reassuring and clear boundries, not to close ourselves in a comforting nest, but to build a better place and a responsible and quality dimension. Essentiality of shapes end colors, far from extremism and extravagance.   Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini

SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY

The point on traceability in fashion

There is no true sustainability without transparency, but you can’t get far without methodologies and support tools. The United Nations Global Compact defines traceability as the ability to identify and tell the story, distribution, location and application of products, components and materials to ensure the reliability of sustainability claims in the fields of human rights,…

STYLE
STYLE

Organic yarns is the answer

“Be like a flower, survive the rain and use it to grow”. Every summer season is a real challenge for knitwear. We often choose not to choose and we end up in the safe and reassuring path of things already experienced. In this new summer season we are forced to change and we don’t have…

INNOVATION
INNOVATION

Trend Priority: health and wellness

The recent events, climate change, natural disasters, pandemic emergency have deeply impressed the world people. The consumers have developed a particular interest for all the elements, from food to cosmetics, from technological devices to textiles, that can control safety, take care for wellness, protect health, respect humans and the environment. The entire textile pipeline has…

NEWDESIGNERS
NEWDESIGNERS

Feel the Contest – first step: Moodboards’ publication

The new format, involving 27 young designers between the ages of 22 and 35, is entering into the moodboards’ publication stage. After the match with the Italian spinners, the participants received the colour cards of the yarns that they will be using to interpret the theme “Fluid”. The first outcomes are in the updated moodboards they are presenting right…

FTYSCHOICE
FTYSCHOICE

n.5 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 38 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here what you are…

OUR NEWS WEB
OUR NEWS WEB

Essential

As rudimentary as a blank page. A clean slate for rewriting and redefining. There is a need for cleanness, quality, to abandon extremism and complacent and ephemeral extravagance, to do away with the superfluous and get to the real essence of things. Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini A better place Concreteness, sense of reality, need…

SUSTAINABILITY WEB
SUSTAINABILITY WEB

Chemistry in production: how to buy “clean” clothes thanks to Chemical Management

Chance are the expression chemical management will sound very technical and not very interesting to the average consumer who enters the store to buy an item of clothing, a pair of shoes or an accessory. I have to buy a shirt for the gym, a sweater, a belt… What does chemistry have to do with…

STYLE WEB
STYLE WEB

Summer & Co(vid)

“As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were”.          Paulo Coelho Sometimes uncertainty is more frightening than the problem. Summer 2022 is so far away that we can shape it in order to face it with strategy and…

INNOVATION WEB
INNOVATION WEB

Seasonless collections open to new fashion concepts and materials

The fashion system has always been based on a seasonal framework. Today we start to breach the boundaries of this model of creativity and are open to include a variety of different body types, of heterogeneous origin, of cultural diversities. Concept as no-gender and no-season are stimulating the development of a new aesthetic freedom, fluid,…

NEW DESIGNERS WEB
NEW DESIGNERS WEB

Feel the Contest: support your favorite young designer!

Many young designers eventually applied to be part of the new competition by Feel the Yarn. During the next 3 months they will be developing their ideas with the yarns of the FTY spinning mills. In this period the FB group FTY for new designers will host their moodboards and, finally, their outfits to be…

MERCHANDISING WEB
MERCHANDISING WEB

The 5 fundamentals for the marketing plan

Before starting to talk about how to prepare the collection plan, we should take a moment to reflect on which are the main fundamentals, that identify a brand its strategy to be successfully on the market: customer target brand style product specialization price level distribution network Customer target For a brand already existing on the…

FTYS CHOICE
FTYS CHOICE

The latest information on Italian yarns and knitwear at a glance

The music is changing: discover the new contents designed by the FTY’s platform to give ever more support to whom likes to create lovely and price targeted SS22 knitwear collections. www.feeltheyarn.it is on-line with new features, starting from an easier home page: A fast gateway to the new collections of 38 Italian spinners A selection of…

OUR NEWS
OUR NEWS

About Environment and Art

Feel the Yarn Magazine has often talked about sustainability either through stories dealing with it directly or looking at the works of artists who consider the environment in what they do. I would like to look at two of them here: “Grassland Repair” by Linda Tegg, curated by Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright (in Still…

SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY

Reset Fashion

The 2020 4sustainability® Event photographs the state of the art of the fashion sector showing the way to rebirth. Reset Fashion. A New Era: this is the title of the 8th Evento Annuale 4sustainability®, staged online on November 26 as a sign of vitality and confidence in the future, in spite of everything. Let’s be…

STYLE ingela lhirman
STYLE ingela lhirman

The Cultural sustainability

“Give me a lever and a fulcrum and I shall move the Earth” Archimedes Many complain about the too high cost of sustainability, others argue that sustainable production is unsuitable for creating trendy knitwear . Stylists are the revolution’s protagonists and have the important task of drawing the right lever to find the balance between…

INNOVATION el anatsui
INNOVATION el anatsui

The multiple ways to Sustainability

Sustainability is confirming its value as an incentive for innovation and growth along the whole textile and fashion pipeline, not only implementing the development of new sustainable fibres and processes, but also with great consciousness and responsibility as to environmental and social performances. Without quality there is no sustainability. Therefore, the research and careful selection…

NEW DESIGNERS
NEW DESIGNERS

Feel the Contest 2021

The time has come: eventually, FTY launches a competition dedicated to young designers who are in love with knitwear. Given the extraordinary situation, we have chosen to organize an extraordinary format for 2021, which will allow the participation of anyone who aspires to be visible in the restricted world of knitwear or to start a…

MERCHANDISING
MERCHANDISING

Introducing Merchandising

This section aims to give some notions on what the general rules are to prepare a “collection plan”. The collection plan is a set of indications to be followed to develop a clothing brand (with the specific characteristics an accessories brand too) of any kind of target, gender, type. Designers will find it as a…

FTY CHOICE liu wei
FTY CHOICE liu wei

n.4 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

1 our news
1 our news

Global aesthetics

Art always rereads, interprets and transforms suggestions coming from other cultures. You just have to think about the influence of African sculpture and Japanese prints on artistic avantgarde movements in Europe at the beginning of 19th century. Fashion has always done the same. It is impossible not to think about the fascination of aesthetic contaminations,…

2 sustainability
2 sustainability

There is no sustainability without stakeholder engagement

In the current market context, companies are facing two transformations. The first one, which is internal to the organization, concerns the growing complexity of the value chain: processes and products have impacts that go far beyond the employees, customers and business partners of the single company. The second type of transformation, which is external to…

3 style
3 style

Natural boundaries

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou Nature has drawn boundaries on the skin of earth; rivers, seas and mountains, they have naturally separated us for millennia, until our main biological imperative prompted us to relate to others and invent means…

4 innovation
4 innovation

Colours enhancing the season

The yarn collections for Autumn-Winter 21.22 have invested in yarns that are timeless but reinventing them through creative and exclusive colour effects. Colours are helping us to feel good, to face the difficult times we are living with a positive attitude, to be expressed in new combinations, mixes of solid shades and colourful shadings. To…

5 new designers
5 new designers

Introducing @vicky.knits

Viktorija Mineikyte is an ex-FTY’s contestants. She now makes handmade knitwear with fun vibrant colours. She has created her Instagram page (@vicky.knits) with the hope to help the community with designs, patterns, and technique tutorials. In this issue we have meant to know more about her story and passion… How did your studies at NCAD…

6 FTYs choice 1
6 FTYs choice 1

N.3 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Feeling Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type here…

1 MOVE BEYOND HUMANISM
1 MOVE BEYOND HUMANISM

The beauty of darkness

Only in the darkness you can see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr. An unexplored and misterious shaded area, dark and neutral colors, veiled in grey, serious, deep, yet never gloomy tones overlapping. Almost like monochromes not anywhere near the absoluteness of black.   Photo and concept by Elisabetta Scarpini

2 SUSTAINABILITY
2 SUSTAINABILITY

How to communicate sustainability

Sustainability has become a buzzword over the years. All the indicators tell us that the future belongs to companies authentically committed to sustainability meant in its three key-dimensions: environmental, social and economic-organizational. The critical point consists in that authenticity component we don’t always find in the communication of projects and initiatives “sold” as sustainable: one…

3 STYLE
3 STYLE

Aware knits

“Authentic humanism is built on the awareness of human insufficiencies.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila. We have always lived an anthropocentric life, focused on ourselves, supreme human beings and exclusive creators of the Universe. A relevance experienced as a simple superiority over the rest of the (animal) world or as a presumed pre-eminence over reality. One day,…

4 INNOVATION
4 INNOVATION

In tune with natural sensitivity

It’s time to approach a new, more positive vision of the future, to relax and feel good, to appreciate the relationship between comfort and softness, moving towards smarter lightweight yarn qualities that embody elegance and preciousness. Yarns can be designed to offer smooth tactility, comfort, wellness, shelter and cosiness, mainly in their natural color palette…

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5 NEW DESIGNERS

FTY for New Designers

Let’s create a virtual place where schools, spinners and knitwear companies can develop positive connections for aspiring designers. After the positive experience of the FTY 2020 contest, we decided to invest even more in digital relations. The FB group broadens its scope and change its name: Feel the Yarn for New Designers is born. For…

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6 FTYS CHOICE

N.2 | The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our NEW choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs… Finding Italian yarns in Covid-19 times has never been so easy! FTY collects materials coming from 39 Italian companies and classifies them according to the most common fashion needs. FILTER’S GLOSSARY: Search (text): type…

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WorkshopJapChina

Workshops start again from Asia

​Live meetings in Tokyo and at Shenzhen to show the A/W 2021/22 collections. Time has come for the workshops to restart: Tokyo (13th/14th October  – “Feel the Yarn – Workshop Yarns Tokyo – A/W 21.22 Move Beyond” – TOC Ariake, Convention Hall) and, in collaboration with ICE, Shenzhen (20th/21st October – “Workshop Feel The Yarn…

OUR NEWS
OUR NEWS

Hic et nunc

Maybe it is a school memory, but September coincides with the beginning of the new year for me. It is time to make a balance and take new resolutions, it is time to look ahead. Yes, because the present has always been – but even more so after these difficult months – a strangely elusive…

SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY

Ecodesign: how to manufacture a low impact product?

It’s certainly true that the consumer is increasingly oriented to purchasing sustainable products and willing to even spend a little more. It’ equally true that there’s very little clarity on the real or presumed product sustainability, even if the perspective is that – more advantageous, on paper – of the manufacturer. Let’s narrow it down…

STYLE
STYLE

Over Knit Glance

Crises and adversity often become an opportunity for inner growth and change. Fashion has a huge secret weapon… knitwear! Revolution starts with the choice of yarn that is organic or recycled and it’s made by an ethical and sustainable production process. The FW 21/22 Season debuts the driving force of new technologies, showing itself in…

INNOVATION
INNOVATION

Responsible evolution

Deeply impressed by the extreme events that have involved and shocked the whole world, aware of the individual responsibility, people have realized the absolute need to respect the society and the environment and to take care not only of humans but also of animals, vegetation and climate. Fashion, knits and textiles are engaged in a…

NEW DESIGNERS
NEW DESIGNERS

Contest 2020: a digital story with real winners

The social voting officially ended on September 3, at 6 p.m., and declared the winners of the 2020 edition of the contest created 11 years ago by “Consorzio Promozione Filati – CPF” and “Pitti Immagine Filati”.  The community of the Facebook group “Feel the Yarn – The Contest”, consisting of students, experts, influencers, companies and yarn lovers, declared…

FTYS CHOICE
FTYS CHOICE

The easiest way to find the best Italian yarns

Take a look at our choice among the best yarns from Italy and filter the articles according to your needs…

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1 MOVE BEYOND ok

The utopia of control

“To Those who know The Stimulus there is in Danger – Other impetus Is numb – and vitalless.”

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2 SUSTAINABILITY ok

Ethical claims, sustainability labels and certifications… How to find your way

Unfortunately, there is no single standard for measuring the sustainability performance of a company in terms of both processes and products, which is a fertile ground for the proliferation of ethical claims, labels, company and product certifications.

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3 STYLE web

Knit fragments together

May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears, said Nelson Mandela.

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4 INNOVATION web

Knitwear leads us beyond fears

When anxiety and fears for the future accompany our daily life, knitwear represents more than ever the refuge item, able to warm up, to cocoon and to protect, creating an encouraging and comfortable ambience.

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move beyond quadrata

A new point of view on yarns

From now and on, FTY becomes a newsletter as well. One more chance to talk with all the people who make a living with knitwear, but are also proudly fond of their job.

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sustainability quadrata

Covid-19: six opportunities to rebuild a resilient and sustainable fashion industry

The special edition of the CEO Global Fashion Agenda 2020 published last May in collaboration with McKinsey & Company is entirely dedicated to Covid-19 and aims to orient the fashion companies’ CEOs choices to recover profitability.

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style quadrato

Knitwear crossing-cultures

Since the ancient history, borders represent the end of the known in terms of society, custom, language and tradition.

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innovation quadrato

Between tradition and innovation the new warp knitted textures

The autumn-winter 21-22 season will respond to the difficult times we are experiencing with renewed energy, looking for new expressions and daring innovative knitwear solutions, evoking textile arts.

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designers quadrata

Once upon a time there was a Contest

Once upon a time there was a contest where nearly 200 students from the best International fashion schools have participated over the years.

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ok1

#03 theme 4 – Consciousness

The need to rediscover a consciousness that allows us to get back as much control and reassurance as we can, to lay new foundations on which to build with more awareness and intelligence.

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ORDER DISORDER

#03 theme 3 – Order/disorder

Theme 3 The continuous oscillation between harmony and disharmony is a movement that develops autonomously, and from which we cannot diverge. The harmonious dimension induces a sense of self-congratulatory wellbeing that inhibits forward motion and the search for new possibilities of expression, but which is inevitably destined to change. On the contrary, the rejection of…

LOST PARADISE
LOST PARADISE

#03 theme 2 – Lost paradise

Theme 2 Nature rebels, shows us its power and strength but at the same time its fragility and state of irreparable damage. What we have before our eyes is a planet out of control, and we must face up to it. A story suspended between chemical colours and botanical tones, in which despair for the…

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fellthe4

#03 theme 1 – Filtered reality

Theme 1 Human relationships are increasingly mediated and filtered by virtual  and digital relationships that “keep us safe” and prevent direct contact and hinder emotional awareness through the senses. Paradoxically, all this is happening at a time when we seem to reveal ourselves through the continuous exhibition of our private lives, with a new and …

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feel the yarn ss21 copertina scaled 1

ISSUE 03 | Feel the Yarn The Magazine “Out of order” SS21

The Magazine comes from the desire to talk about knitwear trends with the focus squarely on yarns. The images and words behind the inspiration for knitwear creators will be placed alongside yarns, clothes and garments that provide the best visual representation of the themes chosen to depict the reality around us, or what will sum…

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Workshop Filati Tokyo | FW20/21

On October 3rd-4th, Bunka Gakuen Tokyo the italian companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: Italian yarns brands list AVIA, CASA DEL FILATO, DIVE’, FABIFIL, FILATURA DI POLLONE, FILATURA PAPI FABIO, FILATURA PETTINATA LUISA 1966, FILITALY – LAB, FILMAR, FILIVIVI, FILPUCCI, GI.TI.BI. FILATI, INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI, LANECARDATE, LANIFICIO DELL’OLIVO, LINSIEME…

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IMG 20191001 110216 650

Workshop Filati Seoul | FW20/21

On October 1st, Textile Centre Seoul the italian companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: Italian yarns brands list AVIA, CASA DEL FILATO, FILIVIVI, LANIFICIO DELL’OLIVO, LINSIEME FILATI, MANIFATTURA IGEA, SERVIZI E SETA, SUEDWOLLE GROUP ITALIA, TOLLEGNO 1900. Italian knitting mill MOMA CONCEPT

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IMG 3198

Workshop Shenzhen | FW20/21

On September 10th and 11th, Four Seasons Hotel, 138 Fuhua Third Road, Futian District, Shenzhen the italian companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: Italian yarns brands list BOTTO GIUSEPPE, CASA DEL FILATO, FABIFIL, FILATURA DI POLLONE, FILATURA PAPI FABIO, FILITALY – LAB, FILPUCCI, GI.TI.BI. FILATI, IAFIL –…

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Rendez-vous italien à Paris | FW20/21

On September 4th and 5th the italian companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: Italian yarns brands list CASA DEL FILATO, DIVE’, FILATI NATURALI, FILATURA DI POLLONE, FILATURA PAPI FABIO, FILATURA PETTINATA LUISA 1966, FILITALY – LAB, FILIVIVI, FILMAR, FILPUCCI, GI.TI.BI. FILATI, IAFIL, LINSIEME FILATI, INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI,…

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sharing

#sharing memories

Personal and collective memories to be shared with nostalgia-free lightness. The beauty of little things, of the everyday and of affection. The pleasure of normality far removed from sensationalism and extremism. A story of gentle, soft, welcoming colours. Pop colour: dehydrated orange. Feel the yarn “Roots” | issue 02

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new arch

#new archetypes

A story of rigorous tints similar to chemical yellow. Contemporary graphic details derived from artistic, sensory experiences. Chromatic geometry, dissonant combinations, unexpected dialogue between form and content. Dynamism, unexplored interpretations of comfort and sport. An attempt to define a new aesthetic of the present. Pop colour: cadmium yellow. Feel the yarn “Roots” | issue 02

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privatewunder

#private wunderkammer

Collecting wonders in the physical and metaphysical sense. Choosing, perserving, handing down. Drawing pleasure from the intrinsic veauty af things. Finding connections between past and present, between an intimate dimension and a harmonious relationship that represents it. A sort of private portrait, an identity defined indirectly through particular looks, colours and forms. Deep, enveloping tones.…

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ORIGINS 1

#origins

The origin of all things, the first step, the starting point. Let’s begin here, to understand and to investigate, from an absence (also of colour) thet allows us to conceive a new, personal definition of the present. Looking back over and recycling the past to firmly construct brand-new ways to grow and learn. Neutral, desaturated…

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feel the yarn ai20 21 RootsBassaDef Page 01

ISSUE 02 | The first trend magazine wholly dedicated to yarns and knitwear

The Magazine comes from the desire to talk about knitwear trends with the focus squarely on yarns. The images and words behind the inspiration for knitwear creators will be placed alongside yarns, clothes and garments that provide the best visual representation of the themes chosen to depict the reality around us, or what will sum…

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Copenhagen 120619

The Nordic Countries roadshow | FW20/21

On 12 June (Copenaghen) and 13 June (Amsterdam) the italian companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: AVIA – BOTTO GIUSEPPE – DAVIFIL (only Amsterdam) – DIVE’ – FILATI NATURALI – FILATURA ASTRO (only Amsterdam) – FILATURA DI POLLONE – FILATURA PAPI FABIO – FILITALY – LAB – FILIVIVI FILMAR…

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IMG 20190411 WA0005

Workshop Shenzhen | Slowing down SS20

On 11 and 12 April 2019 the companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: CASA DEL FILATO SRL, FILPUCCI SPA, GI.TI.BI. FILATI SRL, IAFIL SPA, INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI SPA, LANIFICIO DELL’OLIVO SPA, LINIFICIO E CANAPIFICIO NAZIONALE SRL, LINSIEME FILATI SRL, MANIFATTURA IGEA SPA, MANIFATTURA SESIA SRL, PECCI FILATI…

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IMG 20190409 WA0023

Workshop Tokyo | Slowing down SS20

On 8 and 9 April 2019 the companies that exposed their yarns to the workshop organized by Feel the Yarn were: AVIA SRL, CASA DEL FILATO SRL, FILMAR SPA, FILPUCCI SPA, GI.TI.BI. FILATI SRL, IAFIL SPA, INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI SPA, LANIFICIO DELL’OLIVO SPA, LINIFICIO E CANAPIFICIO NAZIONALE SRL, LINSIEME FILATI SRL, MANIFATTURA IGEA SPA, MANIFATTURA…

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pag.118 FREE SPIRIT web

#free spirit

Positivity and optimism. Individualism and freedom of expression. The pleasure of moving in the open air. Everything is allowed within unusual colour combinations and clean graphic details. Primary colours dialogue with bold, playful tones without ever falling into excess.

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pag.98 STILL WATER sito

#still water

A range of warm and cool greens inspired by the colours of lakes, where greens and blues dialogue with ochre and earth. A silent nature that awaits us.

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pag.47 SOUNDLESS sito

#soundless

A dimension of suspension, the dilated time of a summer morning, the serenity of a clear, flawless space. A story of silent colours, bleached by the sun, slightly desaturated, of off-whites and dusty neutrals, but also of clear, fresh pastels.  

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pag.48 IMPERFECT BLOOMING sito

#imperfect blooming

There is a strange beauty in the moment in which things show their ephemeral side. A fragile, transitory sensuality that is tormented and flawed. The fleeting moment when tones change, becoming deeper, as though imbued with a touch of melancholy. A range of intense, sophisticated and passionate colours.

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Sponsor immagine del 02

Feel the Yarn – The X Contest

Feel the Yarn, the only International contest wholly devoted to discover and support aspiring knitwear designers has arrived at its X edition. Since 2010, more than 200 students of 20 top International fashion schools from more than10 Countries have challenged each other with creativity and technics. Different stories, different nationalities, a unique goal: to work…

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Coperina Magazine 1

The first trend magazine wholly dedicated to yarns and knitwear

The Magazine comes from the desire to talk about knitwear trends with the focus squarely on yarns. The images and words behind the inspiration for knitwear creators will be placed alongside yarns, clothes and garments that provide the best visual representation of the themes chosen to depict the reality around us, or what will sum…

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BandiOshimaIncagliVentura

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…

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DON 5688 scaled 1

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’…

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LSRR7220

Au 30 boulevard Saint Jacques Paris

On September 5 and 6, at the 30th boulevard Saint Jacques, Paris, the presentation of new knitting and weaving yarn collections was held with a selection of knits for the F /W SEASON 2019-2020 and interventions by personalities and talents of the industry and fashion. The companies present were:

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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feel the yarn hybridization ai19 20 57bis

#Out of conformity

Renovate the past in order to give a higher meaning to the present. Openly combining different eras and cultures. This is Not Kitsch: It’s Contemporary.

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feel the yarn hybridization ai19 20 44bis

#Organic transition

The concrete natural turns into hyper-natural. Not something different from us, but comes from us and it’s not scary.

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feel the yarn hybridization ai19 20 3

#Contaminations

Nature and urban environment have a reciprocal contamination. Like a mutual invasion. Man is taking benefit from this subtle war, using the strength and the energy to improve his life.

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feel the yarn hybridization ai19 20 12

#Sensorial

In a world full of heavy stimulus, senses are our light guides. It’s because of them we choose for our good. Let’s trust our senses.

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studenti 2018 scaled 1

Their first day at FTY2018

Here they are! The 26 students coming from 14 top fashion schools just arrived in Florence to take part in the Feel the Yarn 2018 contest! A whole week for learning more about fancy yarns that will end with an exhibition of their creations at Pitti Immagine Filati 83 Good luck to all of you!

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gomitoli

Future is blossoming all the time

A welcome gadget at Feel the Yarn (Pitti Immagine Filati 83) AMI Foundation is a charity organization that supports the child and maternal area of the Prato Hospital. Only for Pitti Immagine Filati they have created a welcome gadget for teh Feel the Yarn booth’s guests. A lot of colours for a nice accessory. Come…

FTY 2017 premiazione gruppo
FTY 2017 premiazione gruppo

Feel the Yarn 2018

Yarn training experience and design award for future knitwear designers A new and richer edition for our contest at Pitti Immagine Filati 83 (June, 27-29): 26 spinners for 26 students coming from 14 fashion schools. Among them the new entries of DK – Designskolen Kolding (Denmark) and the Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art. (Israel). It’s…

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copertina

Hybridization

Hybridization_social and estical mixture_cultural mix_broaden the horizonts_contaminations cultural nomadism_empathy_irony_aesthetic inconsistencies_twelcome and integrate the variety

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The Feel the Yarn contest is still growing and warming up for the 2018 edition IX

The ninth edition of the “Feel the Yarn” contest is scheduled for Pitti Immagine Filati 83 (June, 27-29) with a slightly new formula. More than 50 students from 10 International fashion schools have applied this year to participate, submitting their general portfolios, together with the concepts and sketches for the knit outfits they would lke…

Feel the Yarn 2016
Feel the Yarn 2016

Feel the Yarn: and the winners are…

Wang Yanjun won the Feel the Yarn 2016 contest. The special prize offered by Salvatore Ferragamo has been assigned to Yan Wen.

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[Feel the Yarn sponsor] Trafi Creatività Tessile

Among the companies which are supporting this year contest, there is also Trafi Creatività Tessile. Clicking on ‘Feel more’ you can read something about its history and mission.

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Cos Swimwear

Swimwear by Cos

The new collection of swimwear branded Cos makes its debut in its stores all over the world: one piece swimming suits and bikinis suitable for who wants to be comfortable but sophisticated and those women who want to be sober but always recognizable.

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studenti filature 1

Feel the Yarn 2016: the matches students/mills

2 students per school, for a total of 13 schools and 22 between mills and companies enrolled: these are the numbers of the 2016 contest branded Feel the Yarn, that heated up the motors few weeks ago towards the finish line on the next June 29th, Pitti Filati.

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Feel the Yarn 2016

Knitting time: the concept of Feel the Yarn 2016 contest

The students that will take part of the Feel the Yarn contest will have to follow a very specific concept, that the coordinator of the project, Ornella Bignami, called ‘Knitting time’.

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CELC Feel the Yarn

[Feel the Yarn sponsor] CELC

MASTERS OF LINEN® spinners, suppliers of linen excellence to the knitting industry, support our Feel the Yarn contest.

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A workshop by Brachi and 4sustainability at Pitti Filati

On June 29th 4sustainability is organizing a short workshop at Pitti Filati about sustainability in the fashion supply chain.

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[Feel the Yarn sponsor] La Rosa

Among the companies which are supporting this year contest, there is also La Rosa. Clicking on ‘Feel more’ you can read something about its history and mission.

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feel the yarn winners 1

Feel the Yarn 2015: and the winners are…

Last Friday at Pitti Filati the award ceremony of this year contest took place: Verena Winkelmann from Hochschule Niederrhein and NG Siu Mui from The Hong Kong Polytechnic won the competition!

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SHIMASEIKI 1

SHIMA SEIKI supports Feel the Yarn

SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD. of Japan is a leading manufacturer in the computerized flat knitting machine industry.

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Feel the Yarn 2015: yarn training experience and design award for future knitwear designers

During next Pitti Filati (July 1-3 2015) Feel the Yarn 2015 is going to show all the creations made by the 21 young designers coming from the most famous international fashion and design schools.

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Stefanel and Feel the Yarn 2015

Stefanel Group, one of the most important fashion company where knitwear products are significantly listed in its catalogue, is offering a stage opportunity to the student who will be ranked as second at the Feel the Yarn contest.

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CELC and Feel the Yarn 2015

Feel the Yarn 2015 contest is supported and sponsored both by the mills you can find listed in this post and by other organizations, such as CELC Masters of Linen, the European Confederation of Linen and Hemp which promotes products made using European linen and certified Masters of Linen 100% Made in Europe.

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Matilda FTY 3 1

Matilda Norberg and Industria Italiana Filati

Feel the Yarn allows students coming from the most famous international fashion schools to test their skills as well to promote them. At the same time the contest allows the mills to meet young knitwear designers and to establish new collaborations.

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Feel the Yarn 2015 1

Feel the Yarn contest: the matches

I already wrote about this year contest theme: Feel the Yarn and the students involved in the project will focus their skills on ‘Dual: Contrast or Fusion’. Now I’m happy to spread the word about the matches between students and mills.

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feeltheyarn2015 1

Feel the Yarn 2015: Dual

Consorzio Promozione Filati and Pitti Immagine, together with the most important Italian yarn industries, launch the 6th edition of Feel the Yarn, the contest dedicated to knitwear designers.

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Hogan Rebel Valentine 2015 Special Edition

The renowed Hogan Rebel Hi-Top an Low-Top sneakers are decorated with symbols of love and desire: heart, roses and stars are printed on a soft white leather with hot-red or silver threads.

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Raffaella Ruggeri

Her name is Raffaella Ruggeri and she is the owner of a small atelier in the famous Brera district, in Milan, and she is the designer of woollen and cashmere T-shirts.

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Charles James, Beyond Fashion

The MET dedicates the exhibition ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’ to the Anglo-American couturier Charles James. Born in the UK in the early years of the last century, the fashion designer war a real artist of haute couture.

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EcoComa

EcoComa is the name of the new shirt brand, created by two young men from Brescia, Gianluca Canziani and Simone Curti. The brand name stands for a static phase, when everything is going well, but nothing is moving.

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Zoe Waters ITS 2014 GGi0251 1

ITS Contest 2014: and the winners are…

Last year I just wrote the following post concerning ITS (International Talent Support). This year, I did something more and I went to Trieste myself, in order to take part in the emotion and joy of 40 young designers.

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Feel The Yarn la premiazione 003 1

Feel the Yarn 2014: and the winner is…

Last Friday at Pitti Filati the award ceremony of this year contest took place: Matilda Norberg, one of the students coming from the Royal College of Art in London, won the competition.

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Feel the Yarn 2014: the contest

For the fifth year in a raw, Toscana Promozione, Pitti Immagine, Consorzio Promozione Filati and the most important italian yarn producers will promote in 2014 a contest for knitwear designers.

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Industria Italiana Filati and the FTY project

Industria Italiana Filati was among the companies which took part at the Feel the Yarn project. In this edition the two students who represented the company were Carolina Russo and Giulia Astolfi.

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And the winner is… Yiyi Gou!

Last Friday was a great day for Feel the Yarn: during Pitti Filati the award ceremony of this year contest took place. As already explained by Ornella Bignami, tutor and coordinator of the project, the theme of the competition was ‘Pull Lovers’.

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An interview with Ornella Bignami

What is the theme of Feel the Yarn 2013 contest and how it was born?

The theme of the context is “Pull-Lovers”. A theme that transfers into knits feelings of pleasure, wellbeing and love.

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FTY 2013 web 1

Feel the Yarn 2013

For this year’s project, each student has designed and produced 2-3 knitted outfits inspired by the theme ‘PULL-LOVERS. A new feeling for knit’, using yarns from one of the participating Italian spinning companies.

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Hochschule Niederrhein Fashion Show

Hochschule Niederrhein – University of Applied Sciences was one of the fashion schools which took part to the Feel the Yarn project last year.

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And the winner is…

What happens when you win a contest? This is the question we should ask to Xiao Li, the winner of the Feel the Yarn contest. Student from the Royal College of Art, Xiao Li is a shy young lady who has been able to put all her creativity and professionalism within the clothes she created.…

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Feel the Yarn wins the Interactive Key Award 2012

When you get a prize you can only be happy and proud. I’m writing this post as the official spokesman of Feel the Yarn to let you know that we have recently won the Interactive Key Award for the Digital PR category. The award has a long history here in Italy and it is organized…

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1giugno 1

Feel the Yarn @ FashionCamp 2012

If you have learnt to know me during these last weeks, you should also know that FashionCamp is the project I love the most. If it is difficult to explain by words what FashionCamp is, while it’s easier to join us and to get involved in all the initiatives we are preparing for the public.…

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22marzo showreel 1

The importance of being social

Last Monday I met the students taking part to the Feel the Yarn contest: it was a great opportunity to explain in details what I’m doing and what people are supposed to do here. First of all I have to admit that I tried to merge myself with the students, pretending to be one of…