In a previous post we looked at the collaboration between Zegna Baruffa and a group of students from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design who made some showpieces for the Italian yarn company. Let's look today at another collaboration, this time between Lineapiù Italia and Naira Khachatryan.
The young designer of Armenian origins has collaborated for a few years with the Italian textile group, creating for it also the pieces showcased at Linepiù's stand during the latest edition of Pitti Filati.
Khachatryan seemed to favour in her pieces - and in particular in the tops and shorts inspired by Chanel - mohair, wool and merino yarns (Lineapiù's “Bouclé”, “Renoir” and “Sinfonia”).
The designs with emphasis on the back or on the shoulder area were the most interesting ones. In some cases they featured sensual slashes, in others the designer tried to add an architectural touch, coming up with rigidly sculptural shoulders, or employing metallic yarns to inject in her pieces subtle sparkling effects.
Lineapiù's Autumn/Winter 2013-14 collection includes quite a few surprises: one is “Milka”, inspired by Medieval religious severity and ideal to create layered styles, scarves and veils since it comes in modern blends such as milk fibre and cashmere or more traditional combinations like cotton and cashmere.
The new collection also includes yarns for fine and stretchy (“Ambra”) or thick and padded (“Gulliver”) effects, while tweeds have been reinterpreted in fantasy versions. The brightly coloured “Poncho” yarn is for example characterised by three-dimensional knots.
Three-dimensionality and the architectural theme are actually two main trends in Lineapiù's A/W 2013-14 collection that also features felted yarns made with cooked Tyrolean wool ideal to create more rigid and sculptural garments and soft and stretchy products for elaborate surfaces and geometric effects.
Focusing on the future and on space discoveries, Lineapiù also came up with “Scilla”, an innovative wool/viscose yarn with hologram-like effects, “Rock” a fluid and dynamic metallic yarn that gives out titanium and mercury-coloured nuances inspired by moonbeams, and “Metallica”, a brushed mohair and wool yarn with a metallic glow.
Art inspired a wide palette of mohair yarns named after painters and including "Rubens" and "Renoir", while fans of luxury materials will be happy to hear about the company launching mohair and Murmansk fox fur blends and rediscovering yak fibre.
Spun for thousands of years, yak fibre has now been recreated and transformed into yarns with an elegant, gauzy or fuzzy feel, but with modern elasticity and functionality.
From the S/S 13 season, Lineapiù Italia relaunched the FilClass line, including in it bold and daring yet functional yarns. For the next autumnal season the main point of this line is trying to turn complex yarns into simple and modern ones: with this aim in mind, Lineapiù created for FilClass alpaca yarns blended with viscose, wool, or linen or in two different contrasting shades.
Among the main themes of the FilClass collection there are rapid changes in modern society and human beings adapting to different conditions of life, trends embodied by cotton and wool stretch yarns (“Remix) or by blends of matte viscose, merino wool, mohair and shiny polyester (“Goldy”), perfect to design rusty and eroded effects and patterns.
Also the FilClass collection features yarns - such as "Pop" - inspired by the future and by the 3D theme, or by space like the wool/mohair/viscose "Gaia" enriched by sparkling melange effects.
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Wow! Like the dresses here. Totally fashionable.
Posted by: online fashion shop | August 03, 2012 at 05:47 PM
I am blown away by the designs on this post. I can't believe that all of this was accomplished with yarn. This is a creative beacon of fashion you have here. I feel that these types of patterns and textures are a variation of older styles that looked great then, and will look amazing now. I hope I will see some of these yarn designs inspired in other types of clothing like vests, pants, and even custom scarves with the winter weather around the corner. Thank you for the great styles on this post. I am going to share this post on my pinterest. Thank you.
Posted by: Giana Forzareli | September 17, 2012 at 02:13 PM