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Trending Ideas from the Italtex Historical Archives

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  Trending Ideas from the Italtex Historical Archives Blue & white fancy patterns from revisited classics for a sophisticated look suit well the present trend for elaborated fabrics evolving from classics. Over and glen checks or houndstooth are combined with unusual structures and paired with textured yarn-dyed bottoms. From the Italtex  Womenswear Historical Archives . Exclusive designs, sophisticated colour combinations and yarn samples tell the story of men's wear trends from the 1980s put together by one of the greatest Italian men's textile designers, Mr Casalino - from the Italtex Menswear Historical Archives .

Italtex Womenswear Colour and Fabric Trends Spring/Summer 2024

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  Italtex Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 provides complete information on all the main elements of the season: from fibres to woven and knitted fabrics, colours, patterns, finishes, pictures suggesting their use and mood pictures. PURE HEMP FOR SUSTAINABLE FASHION Tinted whites and neutral hues match blue in natural hemp fabrics. Thanks to its low impact on the environment and the limited water consumption necessary for its transformation into a yarn, hemp can be considered a naturally sustainable material. Besides, it is beneficial to the soil, 100% biodegradable and healthy on the skin thanks to its antibacterial, antiallergic, and sun-protective qualities. In this mood board, we suggest it in knittings, woven light fabrics with textured decorations where it blends with cotton, viscose and kapok, rustic effect heavier jacquard stitches made with coarse yarns, and a noteworthy denim version with indigo. BLUE & WHITE FOR OFFICE Classic blue and white is the perfect match for off...

Italtex Menswear Colour and Fabric Trends Autumn/Winter 2023/24

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  Italtex Menswear Colour and Fabric Trends  Autumn/Winter 202 3/24 The Italtex trend on colours and fabrics for Menswear Autumn/Winter 2023/24 contains the bases for planning your new collection: colour trends, complete fabric trend for women's wear fabrics - woven, knitted, jacquard - pictures on fabric usage suggestions and description of key elements of each theme. REINTERPRETING BLACK & WHITE Apparently regular geometric motifs in a jacquard pullover. Checks of different dimensions on womenswear wool structures for long or bomber jackets plus a wool and blends coat to pair with highly daring cotton with a shiny PU coating. Loopy yarn plays in jacquard structures creating macro houndstooth patterns. NATURAL SHADES Moretta wool is the wool yarn resulting from selecting the natural colours of sheep fleece, thus naturally sustainable. The resulting patterns have an old-fashioned but very refined look like that of the tartan to pair with a milled coat or a felted knit ...

Italtex Womenswear Colour and Fabric Trends AW 23/24

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Womenswear Colour and Fabric Trends AW 23/24 The Italtex trend on colours and fabrics for Womenswear Autumn/Winter 2023/24 contains the bases for planning your new collection: colour trends, complete fabric trend for women's wear fabrics - woven, knitted, jacquard - pictures on fabric usage suggestions and description of key elements of each theme. MULTICOLOUR Fluo colour blends on classic black&white houndstooth imitation jacquard. Multicolour yarns decorate nocturnal tweeds and bold Mexican style prints on black. Iridescent lurex bold stripes on lightweight canvas. Digital colour sports terry cloths and very long hair chenille in jersey and polyurethane plastic lacquering. FOGGY COLOURS A dim fog veils the cold hues of grey, light blue and beige for lace-looking knitted jacquards and soft fleece with carved textured designs.  Chenille intertwines tweed yarns in jacquard coats. Pastel colours decorations on classic double-face checks or warm hairy alpaca and mohair coats. EMER...
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  Italtex  Macrotrends Spring/Summer 2023 Men's and Women's Wear CHROMAVERSE As the Metaverse is defined as the future of the internet - a shared 3D universe that users can exist in perpetually - and more of our lives are spent online, it's becoming harder and harder to distinguish real life from life lived virtually. Therefore, materials and colours have a digital approach also in "real" life, as consumers are getting used to animated fruition. TECHNO GREENS The boom of the game market and the metaverse have an impact on the way we perceive colours. Acid lime shades go from casualwear to eveningwear, fitting every occasion. FORMALCORE Versatility becomes the key word of the new formal dressing. The emphasis has moved from fine and formal tailoring to a more relaxed and everyday kind of look. A more easy going formalwear takes shape in reinvented classic patterns appealing to a younger market. URBAN PASTELS Focus on calming colours, as consumers are looking for re...

Menswear Colour and Fabric Trends Spring/Summer 2023

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We are leaving a time of contrasts, where our soul is constantly torn between two different aspects of reality, and the image of us we wish to show to others plays between truth and fiction, thanks to avatars and augmented reality. Clothes express our personality, and fabrics tell this game of contrasts POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE The theme of opposites moves around stark navy blue/ivory and black/ivory contrasts. It finds expression in corroded checks in polyester/nylon mixtures on double-face jacquard damask, clean edge discharge printing on young-taste cotton shirts and floral prints on fluid viscose t-shirts, refined cotton/polyester shirts. NEW FORMAL The new formal blurred patterns feature cool-wool jackets woven on a jacquard loom. Washed out stripes on cotton/linen are the patterns of the new suits and sports trousers. Fake plain polo shirts in jaspé cotton with subtle neps and jacquard effects in linen mixtures create delicate light plays for jackets and sweaters. DELICATE TEXTUR...