Pitti Filati opens today, so let's take a break from the menswear and Haute Couture collections to look at one of the Spring/Summer 2015 yarn collections that will be presented this week in Florence, Todd & Duncan's.
As you may remember, the company quite often creates yarn collections taking inspiration from art movements. For the next season the main inspirations moved from light and neon tubing installations by François Morellet, Iván Navarro and Dan Flavin; watercolour and ink paintings by Scottish William Johnston, a painter of animals and birds who decorated ceramics with his designs, as well as landscapes in watercolour and pastel; bold and bright works like David Batchelor's and street graffiti.
The "Denim" collection (100% cashmere) revolves around blue shades, from indigo to electric blue; "Consort", is instead a smart cashmere/silk blend yarn with all the natural characteristics of silk; "Heux" is a new metallised two-tone wrapped yarn (cashmere and lurex) ideal to create bright effects with an etched look.
The colour palette is very exciting and includes a series of brights backed with black and white and electric colours directly inspired by Dan Flavin's neon lights.
The graffiti series is also intriguing since it offers surfaces covered with scratchy linear marks in an array of colours or monochrome ideal for irregular, geometric forms or for intarsia interpretations.
Apart from Flavin's neon installations, the collection also borrows from the confident blocks of colours in David Batchelor's works such as his plastic bottle light installations (remember the ones that lit up some of the early editions of Glasgow's "Festival of Light"?).
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