Let's continue for another day the yarn thread that started earlier on this week with a follow up about the Spring/Summer 2014 trends. This time it's the turn of Millefili, a company that Irenebrination readers know very well since it has been widely featured here and there in previous posts.
Purity and cleanliness are the main Millefili themes for the S/S 14 season and these key words were introduced at the Pitti Filati stand in January through herbal infusions, natural yogurts and colourful soap bars.
Buyers were also rewarded with an inspiring fun box of vividly coloured swatches that evoked such themes.
After the previous season "iKnit" iPhone-shaped sample box, this time it was the turn of a Pop Art evoking box of detergent with a series of square swatches stitched together like a rug or a series of soft, fluffy and disposable dusters and a colour card formed by several cotton swabs dipped in intense shades.
Yet the main theme of the S/S 14 yarn collection - "Le clean....c'est chic" - doesn't only refer to a metaphorical sense of cleanliness in general or to the act of uncluttering our wardrobes and aim for a new sense of style maybe based on quality rather than quantity.
It also refers to a fresh and energetic palette to chase away with a new vitality the winter blues (and therefore to random fibre mixes and crazy colour combos) and to lightness, well defined lines and shapes and yarn structures ideal to create uniform designs.
The main theme is also tackled through a series of sub-themes that follow hereunder (please take note: you can see more swatches in the galleries featured on the Millefili Facebook page).
Sweetness: Includes a selection of yarns as soft as second skins such as cashmeres blended with silks or fine wools (Griffe, Mongolian, Paradise, Atelier, Bon Ton, Avatar, Perrier and Schweppes).
Supernatural Flashes: Blends of linen with cotton, viscose and metallic yarns for multi-coloured and joyous contrasting effects (Care, Celebrità. Alèalè, Golfino, Tatami, Zen, Wagamama and Daitan).
Vibrant Pigments: Yarns characterised by linearity but with a blast of colour added that offers an unexpectedly elegant edge on fine yarns and an extremely stylish attitude on chunky ones (Caspiterina, Badaben, Belvedere, Eureka, Urukay, Zio Sam and Momix).
Glazed and Metallic: A series of full-bodied yarns studied for sophisticated constructions and garments in which subtle sparkling effects are mixed with thin and thick yarns that create transparencies, layered effects and innovative and unusual motifs (Ichecocco, Cocoloco, Cocomild, Astrococco, Aqua, Tulle, X-Factor, Mavalà and Metallika).
Tulle (images 5 and 6 in this post) is particularly indicated for see-through intarsia or for graphic effects, while X-Factor (the following image) is better for light knits or to create multi-ended twists and loopy motifs with a certain degree of foamy lightness.
Clean and Basic: New fine yarns that include delicate matte and stretch viscose, soft cottons, crepe yarns and technical yarns with a rubbery consistency ideal to create innovative surface motifs and textures, slippery effects and compact and lucid "hi-tech" moments (Ping Pong, Bassetti, Minimal, Pappappero, Marameo, Miss Molly, Frizzante and Sub). Some of them are perfect for slight embossing or for iridescent Vs matte contrasts.
This section also features a yarn called "Twitter" and another named "Google" that hint at the high-tech aspect. The latter is particularly useful to obtain graphic effects (in the swatch hereunder is used in conjuction with Perrier, Care and Miss Molly yarns). In the case of this specific yarn the "clean" theme applies more to precision and to geometric structured yarns for garments characterised by a sense of dynamic movement and by multi-layered motifs.
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Purity and cleanliness....Good theme! Every stuff in this post is quite interesting. Its good to read about all this. I am really admired for this information in this blog and the nice approach is visible in this blog.
Posted by: fashion lookbooks | April 04, 2013 at 09:56 AM