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Chinè by Carvico
Great for the gym, but also perfect for work, for special occasions or during your free time…Carvico has adopted the “Athleisure” trend with Chinè, Chinè Soft and Chinè Rock: three soft mélange fabrics for comfort and performance, they’re technical and glamorous. Three weights, three types of construction and three different performance: the result of months of research in collaboration with the creators of the premium material. Chinè fabric is Lycra Sport certified and is available in classic or gauze versions.
Taiana presents Denim Maison
New denim: urban chic jeanswear fabrics are now being used in different areas of fashion. The denim specialist Taiana is expanding into intimates and beachwear using InkJet or with a vintage effect; the superstretch fabric has a lot of give, which is ideal for leggings, active and yogawear.
Mühlmeieir expands its soft cup M-TEC range
The German specialist in soft cups launches its innovative M-Tec Real Breast Feel “Lite Slide”, a new cup with many benefits: a breast identical touch and feel and a natural adaption to the curves of the bust. Other innovations for the season are the M-TEC Stay Fresh, enriched by a new polygiene formula, which offers a great fresh feeling and stops odors from developing… ideal for sports underwear and bigger sizes.
New yarns for Siva lace
For S/S 2017 Siva is focusing on the different characterics of yarns for new refined and stronger lace. The bi-color articles are offered in black polyester to contrast with the design colors and equally with the inclusion of viscose yarns and embroidered twist thread. The natural fiber with cotton accents and liner yarn use the new “back” technique for more definition in the patterns: for a delicate design finish, comfortable and consistent hand. Siva’s new jaquardtronic and textronic line has transparent characteristics similar to filigree, which are obtained using a thread under high tension that weighs 40% less than a traditional one.
Iluna Group gets innovative
This is an offering that’s stylishly coordinated with lace, flocking, embroidery with the possibility of doubling materials and print lamination. Iluna Group has for S/S 2017 developed a new collection, which presents the seasonal trends with coordinated drawings in different materials to offer fashion designers creative options for the use of their products. At the same time Iluna Lab, the heart of the R&D department, is focusing on new sports fashion jacquard and lace typologies: Iluna is using a new high performance synthetic fiber developed by Golden Lady, which combines quick-drying, breathability, strength and a cotton-like feel. For S/S 2017 Iluna will also be launching Piuma, a new range of ultra light lace that will be offered as part of their textronic series. Among the new styles are Burano Lace inspired motifs, which have been reinterpreted in a lighter and more refined way. Lastly they have a molding, which combines lace and fabric spacer.
JL Dream Fit from Jersey Lomellina
Jersey Lomellina releases a new collection for the fitness world: a top-end fabric offering both style and performance, a successful collaboration between Invista that uses the benefits of the Lycra Sport fiber (elasticity, shape retention and maximum performance), assuring wearability, correct muscle compression and freedom of movement. Also available from the JL Dream Fit range are the Nair in evergreen; the double face fabric B-Natural (the comfort of cotton and the technicality of polyester); the new melanges Funky, Favola, Festa, Fantasia, in different weights and constructions of contemporary textures and soft touch – and a new 3D fabric inspired by tennis shirts. JL will also be launching its first beachwear print collection for S/S 2018, which has been developed by their new style team, but they’re also offering personalised and exclusive designs.
Tattoo effect from Tessitura Colombo
For S/S 2017 the super light and transparent Jacquardtronic lace line by Tessitura Colombo, which unifies modern technology with refined laces of old has been renewed with the addition of a special black yarn: it gives the optical illusion of a tattoo on the skin, for a look that’s refined and seductive.
Liebaert’s new pigment printing
Pigment printing with a subtle mixture of lacquer effects and rose gold mother of pearl: for F/W 2016/17 the Belgian firm presents an innovative technique of working pigments with a combination of lacquers for the matte elements and for the rose gold design, a new range of ultra fine pearl pigments. The mother of pearl pigmentation is perfectly elastic and allows the material to retain its shape. This technique creates a precious fabric, which is available in a variety of natural golden mother of pearl hues.
The new ultra fine jersey from D2P Billon
D2P Billon is introducing a new line of t-shirt fabrics for S/S 2017. The ultra fine material has been worked on a newly acquired knitting machine with a fineness size of 36. Ultra fine, fluid and soft to the touch, these jerseys are created for lingerie, homewear and ready-to-wear. The premium quality jersey is made from 65% micromodal, 28% micro polymide, and 7% lycra and is offered in five colors (black, dusty pink, ash purple, sky blue and ceramic green) and a second quality made up of 65% micromodal, 28% silk and 7% Lycra – with a chiné effect and a range of three colors (black, delave indigo and antique rose) aimed at the high-end market.
Brugnoli的Br4-8
Launched in January 2016, the new Br4 family of fabrics combines a production process that has a lower impact on the environment (patent pending) and a material that is 100% biological (Fulgar’s new Evo yarn). This expands the range and presents new jacquard materials, a distinctive Brunogli technique that’s been in use for over 40 years. The new Br4-8, which exhibits all the characteristics of the Br4 (eco sustainability, elasticity, excellent heat insulation performance, quick-drying, maximum breathability and bacteriostatic action) is offered in different structures: geometric design and raised motifs, piqué and mesh.
The new laces of Femina Lace
For SS 17 Femina expands its ultra light and ultra smooth collection of new generation laces. Femina continues to innovate with the new technology. Highlights for this collection is the gripper technique used in the edge of the lace giving it a firm grip on the skin ideal for sportswear. Included in the collection are also delicately designed ultra soft and smooth functional laces in very wide width using high denier elastane ideal for use in light shapewear.
Denim Addicted by Fulgar and Santoni with Its Machina Lonati
The marriage between a new generation environmentally friendly machine (SM8/TOP2V) by Santoni and the new 100% biological high-tech EVO yarn by Fulgar has born a special project with the students of vocational training college. “Its Machina Lonati” was presented by Fulgar and Santoni at ITMA 2015 and the project was very much in line with the sustainable “technology” theme. Some of the students from the “Fashion Technologist Designer’s” course reinterpreted seamless stitching using the EVO yarn. The creativity of the young talents combines with technological innovation in textiles while reducing environmental impact for a seamless eco-friendly capsule collection: inspired by denim for an urban, modern and comfortable look.
Dogi’s sporty side
A new range of Active/Sportswear materials will complete the 2017 Swimwear collection, four lines: tops, leggings, jackets, complements, with weight, compositions aimed at different uses: sports or everyday wear. The palette of 60 colors in Liquid Matt presents the idea of coordinated swim/activewear from a fashion/sports perspective. Relief effect textures, jacquard micropiquet and raised decorations for t-shirts and vests; the Complements range presents structures, mesh, perforated and double face materials and neoprene fabric as inserts for a cross-section of sports/outerwear. The polymide is ideal for performance and breathability, moisture management odor control, anti-bacterial properties and UV protection. For Leggings the advantages are based on elasticity, opacity and compression – complemented by the possibility of incorporating the cosmetic finishes: Slim, Aloe Vera and Firming. As for style the focus is on the new melange fabrics. Lastly the different polyester material weights are a perfect base on which to print.
The new Lycra Beauty Cooling technology by Invista
Lycra cooling responds to the problem of shapewear discomfort due to body temperature. The secret to this innovation lies in the Coolmax fibers, they’re made using Lycra and X6300 nylon, which has a four-channel cross-section designed to wick moisture away from the body and disperse it for more efficient evaporation. Tests conducted by Invista revealed a 2-3° temperature difference between the Lycra Beauty Cooling technology and the standard nylon shapewear; all it takes is a couple of degrees for the body to notice a cooling effect. This is the first collection of commercially-available fabrics to integrate Lycra’s Cooling technology and Austria-based Willy Hermann will be the first mill in Europe to present the fabric in 2016.
Deep by Ripa, the new dimension in color choice
Maglificio Ripa, Roica by Asahi Kasei and Erca have partnered to present Deep by Ripa, a technologically advanced fabric, which offers exclusive performance in terms of color and functionality as well as in tones and nuances, intensity and refinement. Deep by Ripa gives ample choice of vibrant colors and doesn’t present any of those white or grey nuances caused by the untinted elastomer, a phenomenon which commonly occurs with polyamides, viscose, wool, cotton and silk. The fabric uses premium stretch yarns from Roica Colour Perfect family, which can be dyed in combination with all aforementioned fibres. Deep by Ripa also uses an innovative technology; Onetone by Erca; specifically aimed at optimising the process of dyeing which in combination with cellulosic fibers offers great depth of color and excellent color-fastness. Moreover, Erca is attested Bluesign along with the auxiliaries it employs for the Onetone process on the fabrics produced using Roica Colour Perfect premium stretch threads. Huit has already adopted the new innovative fabric to a range of their underwear garments.
Rhodia launches Amni Soul Eco
Rhodia, part of the Solvay group launches the world’s first biodegradable polyamide yarn. The fruit of five years of research, Amni Soul Eco is a polyamide 6.6 textile yarn, which has been developed to quickly decompose once disposed of in landfills, making the articles environmentally friendly. While other fibers take decades to decompose, it only takes about three years for Amni Soul Eco to disappear from the planet. Amni Soul offers consumers the benefits of Rhodia’s polymides – soft touch, great comfort, breathability, moisture management, easy-care, easy washing, and it is easily dyed in different colors for the industry to produce any kind of garment for every segments. Aside from being biodegradeable, it is also recyclable and the product is also Oeko-Tex (standard 100, class 1) certified. The sustainable innovation has received two awards: the Kurt Pulitzer Prize from ABIQUIM (a chemical industry representative association), and one from the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).
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