Pitti Filati: scenarios and trends

Despite crisis in its sector, Pitti Filati stands out as the most important and most popular international appointment with operators and style offices, offering excellence in the form of top-of-the-range yarns. It is also a privileged observatory thanks to forecasting and creative application of the trends showcased every season in the Research Space. We met fashion designer Angelo Figus, responsible for the Research Space and asked him for a preview and forecast from the world of yarns.

How is the yarn sector evolving and has it introduced anything new?
Angelo Figus: “The world of yarns is striding out ever more enthusiastically towards all that is natural, which no longer has that rustic, bio-boring aspect it used to have. Today it appears sophisticated and contaminated by a certain techno inspiration. Main players will be linen, cotton and silk blended with synthetic yarns for improved performance and yield or more simply treated with finishes and processes that give a technical, futuristic appearance to the fibre.

Will this new dimension of nature be the real star of the Research Space?
Angelo Figus: “It is the hybrid nature of the yarns that has led us to conceive Futurural, a study into trends based on the wonderful fusion of rural life, feet firmly on the ground, natural and no-nonsense, reworked with a futuristic input and the need for progress: a nature that is not contemplative, but active, aggressive and high-performance. A hypothesis that looks to a new lifestyle narrated through four themes allowing us to develop four different approaches to life in the country; sometimes romantic, sometimes full of energy”.

What other new entries come with the new Pitti Filati?
Angelo Figus: “An extraordinary partnership with New Holland, Fiat’s farm machinery division, which has led to creation of an amazing techno-dramatic installation, decidedly different from any in the past and quite probably unrepeatable. This project highlights the transversal nature of a Pitti Filati that is one step ahead of all the others in terms of colour trends and not only for the fashion sector. A creative laboratory followed by anybody who has anything to do with design in its broadest sense”.