Pitti Filati’s spring/summer 2025 is full of colours, joyful, increasingly immersed in nature, but extremely attentive to the quality of the proposals and the application of new technologies.
Nature bursts forth in the yarns designed for summer, but also in those products now disconnected from a precise seasonality, essential for dealing with climatic tantrums. Even if the markets are looking to 2024 with caution, the liveliness and creativity of the collections expresses precious yarns in appearance and blends, refined in the contrasts of extreme shine and matt, perfect in linear or slightly wavy structures, in the search for advanced techniques for “blowing” all the fibers and creating new lightness and impalpable volumes, or to make the knits compact, waterproof, lacquered, almost as if they were fake leather.
Pitti Filati Trend Area
There are many new features, but all aligned with the theme of sustainability, the use of recycled fibres, in particular polyester and polyamide, often essential to the structure of the yarns. The recycling of denim fabrics which are transformed into yarns or ribbons for shirts perfectly in tune with the irreplaceable jeans is interesting.
Cotton is the protagonist in all variations, very fine almost like an organza, nautical style corded yarns, classic and mercerized, organic or recycled, but also in rougher and more rustic aspects, wavy, flamed, often dyed in vegetable colours. Note the very soft, dense but light cottons for non-seasonal uses, but also the increasingly sought after blends with fine merino wool, cashmere, mohair or alpaca.
Among the natural fibres, linen and hemp stand out, seen in 100%, but also combined with cotton and silk or for chiné dyeing effects with polyester, polyamide or viscose, with the addition of a pleasantly soft touch.
Silk is present in numerous collections, from unusually opaque aspects to brushed and blown silks, to make the yarns weightless, impalpable and sensual in contact with the skin. There is no shortage of blends of silk with fine wool or cashmere with a refined shine. The tussah and shappe silks are rougher with an almost wild appearance.
Viscose ones are typically summery, fluid and shiny or opaque and creamy, sometimes wet to the touch or rippled and snappy. Mother-of-pearl colors or shaded prints stand out.
There is no shortage of surprises. Magical and surprising yarns that change color due to the effect of UV rays. Bright yarns like neon, laminates, rich in sequins and crystals. Proposals for hardened, rubberized meshes with the intervention of polypropylene and polyurethane. Or even finishing on worn, faded, bleached kmits. For a season that is hopefully generous, the result of the interaction between creativity, technology, experimentation and craftsmanship.
Concept by Ornella Bignami, Elementi Moda
