The company also opened its archives for the occasion, transforming memories and future plans into an original themed-display and a publication presented to buyers and visitors.

The ‘From years to yarns’ theme summarises 60 years of the Italian company’s history. Founded in 1954 in Biella by Fernando Savio, Safil is a company which managed to overcome downturns in the sector through constantly offering innovative yarns, technological modernisation and judicious acquisitions.

Conceptual and inspirational

Safil’s Women’s A/W 215-2016 collection represents volumes and lightness for knitwear with sophisticated construction. Drawing inspiration from the natural characteristics of the superfine wools and excellent quality, the company created enveloping and ethereal timeless pieces, with voluminous shapes but light to the touch, that skilfully blend contrasting techniques and counts.

The 18 gauge fineness of the Plume 2/80 yarn contrasts with the 3 gauge Aran-Clipper-Bubble yarn, and Tundra and Top Wool yarns give the idea of handmade, the manufacturer reports.

Safil’s Men’s collection, designed to correspond with the everyday style, is comprised of yarns with a high technological content. It is the interpretation of daily life with elegance, style and pragmatism, the company says.

With the same practicality Safil has developed its Cool-Alps, Cool-Wool and Woolmax yarns, making them, what the company calls, the protagonists of a series of menswear with a sports-chic mood.

Wool yarns for knitwear

The Topwool collection maintains the high standards of South American wool, strictly non-mulesed, untreated or with total easy-care treatment that makes is machine-washable, and pairs it with a modern, original taste.

Filato X-Compact is a last season’s innovative product that continues to be a success thanks to its particular evenness, smoothness and lack of hairiness. According to Safil, it combines the properties of wool fibre with an appearance that recalls man-made fibres in some aspects, and is made in pure wool in exquisite wool/silk or total easy care wool/nylon versions.

Safiella, the extrafine Australian merino yarn, now comes in an updated range of solid and melange colours, with special focus on colours for womenswear. Safiella twisted yarn with a Lurex filament is said to provide an exquisite, sophisticated effect.

Wool and cotton yarns

Safil’s distinctive product in this category is the 60% wool and 40% worsted cotton yarn that represents an innovative element in knitwear collections, where even winter pieces acquire ‘light’ wearability and textures.

New for the season is the untreated wool version, which makes it possible to create boiled wool fabrics with a modern, non-traditional handle, as well as the total easy-care treated wool version.

Active yarn

Safil’s exclusive blends of extrafine merino yarns and patented technical fibres have heat and moisture regulating properties that are said to ensure a high degree of comfort in all situations.

Two of these blends are Cool-wool (20% merino and 80% Coolmax) and Woolmax (45% merino and 55% Coolmax), that ensure natural comfort on contact with the skin and do not obstruct the body’s natural breathability and heat regulation, according to the company.

Fancy yarns

Fancy yarns is a non-traditional sector for Safil, and in the past few seasons the company has taken up the creative challenge of fancy yarns with quality results.

The seasonal collection favours frisé, bouclé, brushed finishes, melange blends and nm counts between 1000 and 14000.

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