Zegna Baruffa, a leader in the production of fine yarns for top-quality knitwear, has produced its Spring/Summer 2017 collection that is inspired by the combination of dream, reality and fantasy, according to the company.

The dream concept is presented by natural fibres, which represent the backbone of the summer collections. These mainly include cotton and linen that help protect us from the heat, silk for its incomparable glamour, and lightweight wool and cashmere for less clement climates or evenings.

The materials are experimented on, manipulated and shaped in new ways to produce a new sense of reality and look at the future with new eyes. Fantasy here aims to represent the original approach, the company reports.

Glass

Reflected in an antique stained mirror, evocative images of a magical, unreal, dreamlike nature appear. Deep and shiny, sometimes mystical, the colours suggest – without revealing them – arcane attractive presences.

This colour theme features fresh dark brown, plum, bright petroleum, dusty mauve suddenly light up, next to a very pale lilac, grass-green and turquoise, creating a sophisticated and dreamy range. 

Crystal

This theme includes pale enchanting colours. The inspiration comes from flowers like hydrangea, gerbera daisy, lotus and yellow, as fresh as the petal of a Comtesse du Berry rose. The range shifts then towards greens, thyme, laurel and rosemary, passing through a pale golden cedar colour.

Amber

This theme features warm and doughy amber–coloured tones, as well as fresh or slightly acid colours: this is a rich and fluent palette in which past and present, false and true live together in perfect balance.

Extremely bright apricot and peony compensate the calm of antique rose and burgundy; the light effect is at its highest point, next to a very vibrant, unreal and symbolic amber colour. In the end, mustard and canary yellow shine like gold, followed by an unexpected aquamarine.

Tempus Fugit

Meditative and melancholic, spiritual colours, appear between darkness and light; colours are offsetting each other without losing balance in a sort of an invariable dusk.

A sequence of pale and colourless pastels – aqua, rose quartz, nude, very light periwinkle – produces, next to opaque gold, wet grass, chalk and greenish pale blue, an overall alienating, very contemporary effect.

Somewhere

Dense and surreal, hypnotic colours produce subtly disturbing reflections. It is all about shiny, elusive tones, misleading like the presence–absence of shades in their magic intermittent appearing and disappearing.

The concept includes colours of black grapes, dark olive and celadon that are the harsh prelude to a series of unexpectedly luminous colours, including radiant fog, golden sun, dark sky and cloud – reflecting the timeless mood of the inspirational photo.

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