Posted by Erica in Textile fairsAug 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Today I want to present you Pitti Filati Fall Winter 2011-12, It’s a seasonal fair in Florence and usually for Italian fashion designer is very important because it presents all trend about knitwear. I always go to this fair, the tendace area is always interesting and it offers you a lot of new ideas for developing your collection.
As usual at the bottom of this page you can find colours and all pictures of Pitti Filati fall winter 2011-12. There are about 300 picture to download and 5 digital sheets with pantone color codes.
Pitti filati Fall winter 2011-12
MOVE!
A vigorous, passionate and...
Posted by Erica in Textile fairsJul 26th, 2010 | No Comments
This time I want to present you colours and pictures from Pitti Filati. this is a textile fair who takes place twice a year, precisely in February and July in Florence. For this fair people come from any par t of Europe, usually it exposes knitwear trends for the next year.
COLORS AND PICTURES OF PITTI SPRING SUMMER 2011
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Symbolically rejecting the culture of digital communications for a more sincere method. Digital has developed sensitivity in the fingertips, but it has diminished our manual skills- our natural movements...
Posted by Erica in Collection planning, Textile fairsJul 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
After a very long break, i decidet to restart wrinting in English. I know my articles are not good as an American mother tongue but I want to try to tell you what I know about fashion fairs as better as I can.
Today I want to star with Expofil Fall Winter 2011-12.
This fair is the first of the season, and it is a small part of the parisian fashion fair Première Vision. It presents more than 15 monts in advance, what tendances will be right for the next seasons.
Expofil ai 2011-12
Autumn winter 2011-12 traces its source to Expofil, under the theme «CLOSE PROTECTION».
Yarn, the material...
Posted by Erica in Collection planning, Textile fairsOct 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
After 10 days without broadband finnaly I am back to tell you what’s new at the french fashion fair Premiére Vision, here are the four temes of the fall winter 2010-11 show:
Rudimentary: From a world lying fallow, extracting unrefined elements, almost raw materials, to costruct a solidly optimistic future. Building alliances between roughness and refinement with raw and industrial aspects, natural and virtuoso degradations with resolutely lively alterations.
Excessive: Leaving the lukewarm waters of indecision and throwing oneself into the estreme. Saying yes to the most outlandish dreams,...
Posted by Erica in NewsSep 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Today I want ot tell you about Expofil which is a small part of Premiere Vision in Paris. Expofil presents yarn previews for spring summer 2011. Unfortunately it is forbidden to take pictures so I will make a little resume of the exhibition.
A welcoming and dynamic seasons that underlines the vakue in alliances and plays on complementary blends. “benefical combinations” play on the diversity of advantages for fabric that are ever mor performant; easy to live and wear. Tecnology progressed and offers new opportunities for fashion in the dimains of confort, research into aspects, the...
Posted by Erica in NewsSep 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Las week took place as every season, Milano Unica fair in the centre of Milan, which is a fabrics and accessories fair. Unfortunately it’s not allowed to take pictures of trend presentations, so i can only tell what I saw there.
Jewellery detais: Baroque mood, cashmere prints, swarovski applications
Most viewed colors: Red and claret, gold, prune/aubergine violet, metallic grey.
Most viewed materials: Chantilly laces, gold leafs printed knitwear, spangles sewn or embroiderered laces, squared and rounded studs applied on materials so close to each others that looked like an armour,...
Posted by Erica in NewsJul 31st, 2009 | No Comments
There are many ways to get ideas all over the world. I have never been to America so I can suggest you some place where you will find good ideas Italy and England.
Bologna:
In Italy a place where I like to go is Bologna market which is a good place for finding vintage and new things. Usually vintage clothes are on the top of a ill and new ones are in a square place in front of the hill. Also there are lost of shops along the main street who brings to Piazza Maggiore. All this in very close to the rail station so you can get there very easily by walk.
Florence:
Another interesting place Is Florence,...
Posted by Erica in NewsJul 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Today I want to tell you the importance of a good planning for you fashion brand. In the last years every time I get into a clothing store or a shop I see most of the clothes are copied from other brands and the quality looks very cheap.
Have you ever asked yourself why the most famous brand in the world like Gucci, Louis vuitton, Chanel etc are so loved? It is not because they are expensive, to me the answer is only one…collection planning.
Since the beginning of fashion every designer has invented something caratteristic for its brand like Yives Saint Laurent with his sahariana, Armani...
Posted by Erica in NewsJul 21st, 2009 | No Comments
During the last 6 months I started to use a fantastic program called Illustrator, I am sure you have already heard obut it. This sofware is made by Adobe as Photoshop but is quite different from the last one.
Photoshop is a bitmap program, which means that more you enlarge the immage less clear it will be (it is called pixel effect). This program is very good for make artistic things like shadows with any sort of brush, tools are like your free hand and it’s the best program for photo retouch.
Illustrator is a vector program which means that it works with points, lines and curves, it’s...
Posted by Erica in NewsJul 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Today I want ti tell you about the importance of Photoshop immages. During my career I met fashion designers who have no idea of what is a psd layer, I also met people who use photoshop daily without even consider this fantastic option.
For a period I fixed my boss files because she didn’t want to learn. She affirmed that it was only a waste of time, but the only truth was that my designer in chief was lazy, she did not like tecnology very much so why learn sometingh she didn’t like?
I believe that in the 21st century you can’t choose of use or not tecnology. It has become an...
