7 – 9 July 2009 - Fortezza da Basso - Florence

The next edition of Pitti Filati will focus on research and quality, strengthened by the new Moda Prima Tessuto project sponsored by Pratotrade, at the Fortezza Concomitantly with Pitti Filati.

The big news for the next edition of Pitti Filati (7 to 9 July at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence) is that Moda Prima Tessuto, the new project produced by the Pratotrade textile consortium will be held on the same dates and at the same venue.

“We will open the next edition of Pitti Filati with the highest hopes”, says Raffaello Napoleone, CEO of Pitti Immagine. “We accepted the request to work together with a different, but complementary industry, because it seemed an interesting challenge from the start. Flanking our exhibitors who represent the high end of Italian and international yarn production for the knitting industry with another that is right next to it in the fashion production chain will certainly help strengthen and complete the Italian trade-fair offering.

For our top buyers, many of whom represent the style bureaus of the most important names in fashion it will be the opportunity to see the excellence of international yarns and to get a better understanding of the coming seasons’ trends thanks to the textile preview. Therefore, the Pitti Filati Spazio Ricerca will be structured to interact with the trend area of this new show and it will be able to expand its essence as an ‘input workshop’ for the fashions of the future”.

Who-and-I, the new Spazio Ricerca

Who-and-I  is the title of the Spazio Ricerca at Pitti Filati 65, which, under the artistic direction of fashion designer Angelo Figus and knitwear expert Nicola Miller, will present the trends for the 2010-2011 fall/winter season.

The new version of the Spazio Ricerca involves the entire Cavaniglia Pavilion, including Fashion at Work, the area dedicated to the most advanced technologies and services for the textile/clothing industries. And, in the wake of the general approval the previous edition received, it will be presenting stitches selected from the historical archives of knitting mills and the great fashion houses, clothing and experiments in knits as well as concrete links with the world of textiles – washes, prints, embroideries, ornaments, and finishes furthering the development of a new concept in trend areas.

Who-and-I is a series of reflections on the topic of identity, a study that goes back seeking origins and identifying characteristics. With its five themes - Pre-History, Re-Tailor, Chil-Dish, And-Rogine, U-Nisex – it will lay the foundations for a new future and a new esthetic.

The Spazio Ricerca, which is made possible at each edition of Pitti Filati thanks to the contributions of our exhibitors, is continuing along its path of researching the latest innovations in ecological, ethical, fair trade and environmentally sustainable yarns.

Pitti filati 65

World preview of knitting yarn collections for the 2010/2011 fall-winter season

Exhibitors

123 firms (42 in the Fashion At Work area), 29 of which are from abroad   

Area

23,000 square meters

Buyers                  

5,527 buyers attended  the last summer edition, and of these 2,534 (46%) were from abroad the main foreign markets: Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Spain, United States, Turkey, Hong Kong, Holland,  Switzerland, Cina and Austria, the main growth markets: Russia, China, Poland, Turkey and Israel

New names and returns

3B (Italy), Ca-Tex (Italy), Chris Judge Design Studio (United Kingdom), Eisaku Noro (Japan), Hasegawa (Japan), Ideafilo (Italy), Inca Tops (Peru), Marchi & Fildi (Italy), Michell (Peru), Minardi Piume (Italy), Nardi Filati (Italy), Sato Seni (Japan), Schoeller Wool (Austria), V.V.G. (Italy).