Yesterday's post focused on Spring yarns, so let's continue the thread moving onto luxurious yarns by Zegna Baruffa/Chiavazza for the Spring/Summer 2014 season.
The palette is inspired by an explosion of colours including pale peach, caramel, pearl, and tones inspired to sugar candies - such as orange, bright yellow and fresh green - or to gardens in blooms, plus a selection of new shades of blues, from azure to mid-blue with gold reflections.
The Zegna Baruffa line features new blends and classics: apart from the timeless must-have basics for all knitwear collections - "Millennium", "Today" and "Antibes", all superfine merino crepe yarns - the new collection includes "Maui", "Bering" and "Acqua", light blends of viscose and natural fibres (wool and cotton) with a shantung glossy-dull effect.
The ultra fresh yarn selection includes "Memphis" (cotton and linen - first image in this post) and "Sand" (high twist and dry cotton), while "Sirio" (second image in this post) in its silver and gold version and "Selene" are the perfect yarns to add subtle sparkling shiny effects to a design, even though it's also possible to use them to knit an entire garment (tip: they are much better when used in colour combinations).
Fans of innovative yarns will enjoy "Ribes", a linen/wool denim design for casual trendy knits, and "Brand New Wool", a hightech revolutionary yarn, suitable for making easy care sweaters since it captures and gradually releases moisture leaving the skin fresh.
The Chiavazza line includes instead "Origami" (lucid linen combined with cashmere), "Lavanda" (linen and wool) and "Olmo" (silk, linen and cashmere).
The Cashwool line yarns remain among the most exciting ones: synonymous with quality, versatility and contemporary taste, these 100% merino yarns in six brand new contemporary colours are perfect to create guipure-like effects (images 3 - 7 in this post).
Even though the latter are usually considered as romantic and sweet, the swatches showcased here seem to form modern lace openwork or broderie-like motifs that at times have an architectural edge and are not excessively cutesy, but give designs a neat and structured consistency especially when paired with geometric effects based on simple repetitions. These yarns aren't just useful to create delicate details, but are also strong enough to design unusual effects that work on different garment categories.
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