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Italtex Womenswear Colour and Fabric Trends Spring/Summer 2025

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Womenswear Colour and Fabric Fashion Trends SS25 is an exclusive report covering every aspect of the season, from fibre choices to woven and knitted fabric options, an extensive palette of colours, striking patterns, intricate finishes, pictures suggesting their use, and mood pictures. NATURAL LINEN BEAUTY The beauty of natural linen is expressed by raw colours and ivory variations for irregular yarns, rustic knits and wavy patterns in natural colors, leno lace fabrics reminding of tricot are enriched with cotton/linen slub yarns, subdued jacquards with irregular patterns reminding bark and delicate textures for tubular fabrics, where linen alternates with an extra fine synthetic yarn. SHINY VISCOSE Classic men's wear checks and one-colour fabrics are enlivened with shiny viscose and sorbet colours. Welcome then to a monochrome jersey with subdued motifs, precious rippled satins, and jacquard knits in blurred patterns lit up by shiny viscose, and viscose matching a linen weft in th...

Trending sustainable fibers: linen

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Last year I wrote on the evolution of the textile industry and its trends on sustainability. Of course, the impact of this key theme has expanded greatly over the months, so I seize the chance to raise the subject again, analyzing the importance of a key natural fiber: linen. Dominant material of Spring/Summer 2021 for woven menswear , this ancient fiber is the answer to two key trends: sustainability and a sports look. A natural fiber coming from flax, which requires very little water, pesticides and retains huge quantities of CO2, linen can be used without dyeing, since it naturally offers a rich colour palette. Additionally, linen's natural slubs confer a sports look to the fabrics woven with them. We find it in most trendy interpretations for jackets, trousers and sports shirts, especially in the Italtex fabric trend books of: Sports Style for Jackets, Menswear Drapperia, Menswear Scenario, Sports Shirts and Knit Shirts