Quite a few readers - most of them students - contacted me about yesterday's post, asking if I had further images of the installation "Futurural" by Angelo Figus and Nicola Miller at Pitti Filati or, in alternative, further information about the yarns used.
The first image in this post image shows the colour cards and moods for the collection - my favourite palette and my favourite designs are the ones belonging to the "A-mish" theme/mood.
I really love the contrasts created in these colour cards (best souvenir given in ages at a fashion-related event - more of this, please!) by the combination of bright neon shades with neutral beiges and grey/blue/dark olive greens.
I'm quite happy to help the readers who wrote me since, as I said, most of them are students and are looking for specific yarns for personal projects, so this post may have an educational value for them. All the other readers, well, enjoy the pictures of the details and, well, why don't you try your hand at knitting rather than just sitting there reading this?
The following pic shows a detail of the skirt for the design portrayed in the second picture in this post. The main fibres employed for this piece are cotton, linen, hemp, viscose and polyester (produced by Olivo, Toscano, Linea Più, Be.Mi.Va, Filmar, I.I.F. and Filcompany).
The transparency theme tackled in this design that, as you can see, incorporates clear plastic makes me think a bit about Capucci's '60s designs in a new key.
The pic that follows shows instead Angelo Figus' favourite piece made with viscose and polyester fibres (by Igea) employed to create a piece reminiscent (albeit in a urban/tribal key) of Giacomo Balla's abstract landscapes of geometric figures and Fortunato Depero's colourful waistcoats.
If you're into luxurious fibres but would like to reinvent them in a more contemporary key, here's an option employing cashmere (by Scottish supplier of fine cashmere yarns Todd & Duncan), linen and polyester fibres (E.Miroglio and Alpes) with decorative neon yellow round sequins.
This is instead the back of a design (partially hand knit) already seen in yesterday's post (seventh image in that post), part of the "Sunday" sub-theme of this installation. In this case Miller opted for nylon, acrylic, cotton and viscose yarns by Filcompany, Filmar, E.Miroglio, Linea Più, Be.Mi.Va and Gi.Tib.Bi.
Both this jumper and the following one - a combination of cashmere, linen, viscose and cotton and polyamidic fibres - by Todd & Duncan, Linea Più, Olivo, Filmar, Filpucci, E. Miroglio and Filcompany - are inspired by foods and dishes traditionally eaten on Sundays and on festive occasions.
Here's also a detail of the fourth design in this post, with an appliqued image of a cockerel, and incorporating polyester, linen, mako cotton and kenaf fribes (manufacturers: Alpes, Toscano, Pecc, Ecafil and Olivo).
In some cases, the back of the designs was as interesting as the front: the following jumper has intarsia motifs of tools including rakes, shovels and buckets.
Different tones of green and bright orange are instead used for the following design made with cotton, polyester and cotton yarns by Filpucci, E. Miroglio and Filmar.
The best thing about this womenswear piece (wool and cotton/viscose) in a 3D undulating motif is the slash at the back that allows the design underneath, characterised by strong and bold colours, to create further contrasts.
The back of this menswear design calls to mind the construction of interwoven baskets with its knotted strips in cotton, nylon, linen, viscose, polyamidic fibres and metallised polyester (Alpes, I.I.F., Linea Più, Be.Mi.Va., and Filpucci) criss-crossing each other.
Hope you found some inspirations in these pieces: as a further suggestion, I can just add to bear in mind the difference between getting inspired and copying and to remember to always opt for the former!
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