Florence, 5 July 2006- A unique concept, plus an effective, targeting strategy makes Pitti Immagine Filati not only the trade-fair par excellence for the knitting yarn industry, but, more important, a true barometer of what the international market is doing.
Pitti Immagine Filati represents the sum of excellence in the industry. The exhibitors are the world’s finest manufacturers of yarns for the knitwear industry, the best in technological innovations for the textile industry and providers of complementary services and products.
Pitti Immagine Filati’s leadership is confirmed by its audience comprising representatives of the creative world dedicated to producing and designing the fashion product, and by the increase in the number of exhibitors who will participate in the next edition. And this increase, points strongly to signals of recovery in the textile industry.
6,885 buyers at the last summer edition
3,313 of which (48 % of the total) were from abroad
The main foreign reference markets: Germany, Great Britain, United States, Japan, France, Spain, Hong Kong, Turkey, Holland, Austria and China.
The main expanding foreign markets: United States, Great Britain and Japan
The only one of its kind in the world, a trend workshop/laboratory, the Spazio Ricerca – coordinated by fashion designer Angelo Figus, and assisted by knitwear expert Nicola Miller – is the key part of the event.
It is a visual installation, a blend of fashion, art and design, that uses knits to convey the inspirational inputs for the fashions of the coming seasons. The Spazio Ricerca at Pitti Filati 59 is Bodybazaar, a structural analysis of the human body and its relationships with esthetics and biotechnology, the quest for immortality and perfection. And all this serves as the background for the research and development of yarns and knit fashions for the 2007-2008 fall winter season. Fashion at Work just keeps on growing: there will be 35 exhibitors at this edition.
The section is devoted to complementary businesses and technological experimentation, revealing the major investments on the part of international firms specializing in research and new technologies.
Japan Blooms. A Pitti Immagine Filati Special Project
Japan Blooms. 15 Japanese fashion designers and 15 Japanese knitters meet Pitti Immagine Filati is a project developed by Pitti Immagine to present the new frontiers in research and product quality of Made in Japan fashion knitwear.
Produced with Itochu Corporation, Mitsui & Co.
and Sumikin Bussan, Japan Blooms, showcases the creations that have flowered from the cooperation of fifteen Japanese manufacturers and the same number of young fashion designers. In the Cavedio, the courtyard inside the Fortezza da Basso, about five hundred garments made specifically for the event by the best artisan firms and design by Japan’s new creative forces illustrate the experience, penchant for innovation and creativity that have led Japanese knitwear to achieve a leading position on the international market for high-end fashion products.
The Events
In the Cavedio, Pitti Immagine Filati presents: Japan Blooms.
15 Japanese fashion designers and 15 Japanese knitters meet Pitti Immagine Filati.
From 5-8 July (10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) the Stazione Leopolda will host the eighth edition of Vintage Selection, the fair featuring strictly vintage clothing, accessories and designer objects. Italian and foreign operators who are internationally acclaimed for the quality of their work, will be showing (and selling) clothing and accessories rich in content and points of inspiration for the trade. This edition’s overall theme is sports: an exclusive selection of vintage sportswear from the major international brands will be displayed in a special setting that recalls a soccer stadium.
And the sections Remake and Selected Id are continuing along their path of success, devoted to custom made and recycling.
The Fondazione Pitti Discovery celebrates sports with HUMAN GAME. Winners and losers (at the Stazione Leopolda, through 21 July). An exhibition that reflects on sport and its central role in contemporary society. On occasion of Pitti Filati, there will be a cocktail party and to view the exhibition for the press and the exhibitors, at 6.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 5 July.
Florence 99% Contemporary a packed calendar of international art exhibits in the city’s venues dedicated to contemporary art continues in cooperation with the Fondazione Pitti Discovery.
