Confirms position as unmissable event for Fashion Greats
Pitti Filati confirmed itself as the unmissable event for fashion greats and the best international knitwear companies: An edition beyond expectations, with P a very high level of research in the collections of the best spinning mills in the world. “According to the exhibitors, albeit a sample group of the same, this edition exceeded expectations,” says Raffaello Napoleone, CEO of Pitti Immagine “and was characterized by the importance of the Italian and foreign visitors as well as the very high level of research and experimentation contained in the collections presented, an incentive and a source of inspiration for all. At times of growth or in periods of readjustment for the market and consumption, such as this, Pitti Filati is truly the only unmissable rendezvous for the big names in fashion and the best knitting mills. And that is not what we, the organizers, are saying, but the members of the trade attending. Pitti Filati is where the entire fashion chain starts, its zeitgeist: The materials, the technological innovations, the colours, the feel, the combinations, the disciplined dialogue between free creativity and frontiers of production. All of this is the result of the commitment and investment of the yarn manufacturers exhibiting in the Fortezza da Basso.”
“It is quite astonishing to skim through the list of buyers representing the knitting mills and, above all, the style bureaus,” continues Agostino Poletto, General Manager “it is like reading the calendar of the London, Milan, Paris and New York catwalk shows, all together… For this reason, in a 2019 which is so tough for the economy and international trade and, unfortunately, for our country in particular, we are decidedly satisfied with the numerical results as well which confirmed the foreign data with regard to the figures for 2018 (completing three years of constant growth in attendance) and a modest decrease in Italian buyers. On our part we try to make sure that the fair is also an occasion for reflecting on the protagonists of recent fashion knitwear history – the exhibition dedicated to Pour Toi together with Modateca Deanna was a great success – and a platform for promoting new talents, for example with the Feel the Yarn competition which marked its tenth edition thanks to the collaboration with the Consorzio Promozione Filati and the best fashion schools in the world. Without forgetting the initiatives dedicated to the theme of sustainability – like the new Sustainable area – the new feature which, this year, also saw the involvement of a giant of luxury like Salvatore Ferragamo with its Young Talents for Sustainable Thinking project, and the always experimental work of Angelo Figus and Nicola Miller in the Spazio Ricerca.”
