Zegna Baruffa has presented its latest Autumn/Winter 2015-16 yarn collection at Pitti Filati trade show that took place in Florence last week.

The selection adds to the company’s already wide range of worsted yarns for knitwear, featuring a  range of counts and colours for Cashwool, the famous extra fine merino.

A wide assortment of fancy yarns, soft, warm and eco-friendly also includes the classic boucle Mousse, together with the feminine Orsetto and  Teddy.

Lightweight but bulky

Based on the design of highly technological Sailor worsted yarn, a 60% fine wool and 40% polyamide blend, suitable for contemporary and casual knitwear, the company has developed Supersailor, clean but chunky yarn, perfect for jackets and coats to be matched with light knitwear.

To create lightweight but bulky garments, Thyme, a 93% fine merino wool and 7% polyamide, was designed. This chainette produced with  the use of the Air-Spun technology is said to be ideal for those who are looking for concreteness in new trends.

Chiavazza

A brand representing the broad range of woollen spun yarns, Chiavazza, presents a rich collection, ranging from the very soft and luxurious Babà, a 70% superfine merino wool and 30% cashmere, to Cashmere 2/28 that is ready in stock in 164  excusive colours, and Must Supergeelong, a 100% baby extra fine merino, the most famous among basic classic yarns available in 135 stock service colours.

Cashmore Soft, the highlight of the collection, is made from extremely fine wool (finer than cashmere) offering a great level of softness. Azhar, Daphne and Hedera introduce contemporary country-chic knitwear – three different ways to interpret counts, weights and colours, achieving aesthetically inspiring results.

Begonia, a 80% superfine wool 15,5 micron - 20% silk, is a valuable fine woollen spun yarn, produced by blending superfine wool with top quality silk. It completes the already broad range of fine woollen spun yarns, together with the already well known New Geelong, Breton, Brittany, Raja and New Cashmere.

Sophisticated range

The colour trend shade card ‘I Colori’ displays six chromatic sequences inspired by artistic, social or purely aesthetic matters, outlining some relevant colour concepts for the coming season.

It ranges from the transparency of extremely light and diluted ‘non-colours’ contaminated by grey shadows to the refinement of cool and very delicate, vaguely sour-tasted tones, which gradually change into light and dusty colours, to be combined to a cool purplish grape and to a doughy garnet.

Then other colours appear: carnation, orchid, blood-red, very dark aubergine followed by Indian yellow and saturated mid blue. La Grande Bellezza, an ideal tribute to the Italian cinema, a sequence of cool, medium saturated tones  - from sky  blue to forest green, passing through a raw cedar yellow. The presence of a dark grape must deletes the otherwise inevitable feeling of freshness, creating an energetic and sophisticated range.

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