“Filo has many plans for 2014, all having the same target: strengthening the services and organisation available to the exhibiting companies and visitors. The economic situation is showing slight signs of improvement even in Italy and Filo aims at further strengthening its role as business platform in view of the recovery both in National and International markets,” said Paolo Monfermoso, Manager of the exhibition.

Exhibition

“Also the 41st edition of Filo intends to testify to the Italian ability to combine the often frenetic work rhythms with a taste for life, art, culture, beauty,” he added.

The pursuit of beauty and refinement is the theme of the product proposals elaborated for the March edition by Gianni Bologna, Creative and Product Development Manager of Filo.

Bologna explained: “In the society there is a yearning for freedom of movement, for a reduction of all kinds of constraints and for simplicity, which appears also in the tendency towards discretion, which grows stronger not only in our evolved, sophisticated (and in crisis) markets, but also in those emerging market sectors, which until a short while ago were seeking the ostentation and compulsive exhibitionism of the signs of the acquired wealth.” It is now time for the individuality to be central again, he believes.

Textile themes

The topic of individuality this season will be referenced in the textile themes. The desire for entertainment and fantasy remains as the expression of one’s own image and creative personality, the yearning for freedom of movement is brewing and the search for the best way of self expression continues.

The indications for the coming seasons are for this growing trend. They are developed in textiles and garments characterised by not excessive formal and structural visibility and, upstream, in more linear yarns or less evident patterns compared to the previous seasons, in more fluid and more comfortable shapes.  

There is a search for new styles and new volumes, for a balance between elegance and technical fabrics, sporting and casual elements without ever being shabby, balanced, smooth, rigorous silhouettes in contrast with that state of chaos of our times from which we want to escape as if it were a prison.

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