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Loro Piana is a Vertically Integrated Company where social and environmental topics matter: Nature is where we source our fibers, and it represents the core of where our inspiration comes from.
Valuable raw materials can be kept in circulation through technical cycles, using innovative and creative ideas.
Students have therefore been asked to regenerate two Loro Piana finished knits, incorporating them into their final Project, using both new and past collection yarns. Participants will have the opportunity to add their own personal touch by playing with a group of nuances within the Loro Piana spectrum.
From Nature’s cycles and the beauty of the finest fibers, come the excellence of Loro Piana yarns.
From Nature’s cycles and the beauty of the finest fibers, comes the excellence of Loro Piana yarns.
Play with colours and nuances to create an unexpected color palette.
Play with colours and nuances to create an unexpected color palette.
An opportunity to up-cycle, recycle and think of innovative ideas; to give back.
An opportunity to up-cycle, recycle and think of innovative ideas; to give back.
Transform and bring new life to the yarns with the use of stitches to create textures, three dimensionality and matrices.
Transform and bring new life to the yarns with the use of stitches to create textures, three dimensionality and matrices.
Creative director of the Sozzani Foundation. She collaborates with many educational institutions and serves on a number of boards working and creating awareness for a more responsible planet. She is part of the advisory board of the Circular Fashion Summit, in support of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. To date she is Educational & Scouting Advisor for Vogue Italia after founding Vogue Talents with Franca Sozzani in 2009. Vogue Talents has been a worldwide project and network supporting independent creative talent.
In collaboration with Altaroma, she curates the Who is on Next? competition in support of Made in Italy. She regularly attends as a judge and consultant in several fashion competitions, including LVMH Prize, the Woolmark Prize, Fashion Trust Arabia, International Talent Support (ITS) and many others. Since September 2018, she has been International Brand Ambassador of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. In 2019 she launched A New Awareness a project that aims to create more awareness and consciousness to the younger generation.
In May 2021 she received the Positive Change Award from Monte Carlo Fashion Week.
Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica, Jordan Anderson is a creative director & a fashion and culture journalist who is currently based in Milan. His work often magnifies & explores political themes in and outside the fashion industry including race, gender, identity & brand and cultural ethics. He is the founder of My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness (MQBMBQ), which is an online platform which explores Black Queer identity through fashion, music, art and all other creative forms. Anderson is editor-at-large of nss magazine and a contributor to a variety of publications including Document Journal, A Magazine Curated By, Vogue Italia among others.
His first job, in 1991, was to research and design fabrics at Romeo Gigli for seven years where he learnt his passion for textiles, for in-depth search and analysis and began developing an instinctive love for beauty itself. Afterwards, until 2003, Andrea free-lanced as a creative consultant with brands such as Trussardi, Maska, Cerruti, Lawrence Steele, Kashyama, Arfango, Les Copains, Alberto Aspesi, Bottega Veneta building a vast knowledge about branding and creative management, in addition to a continuous research in fashion and textile design.
In 1999 he began collaborating with the fashion school Istituto Europeo di Design in Milano where he was first teaching fashion design, then became head of education and then headmaster of the school. Andrea kept the position for five years. This is where he discovered a deep love for teaching and where he met all responsibilities linked to the management of an actual business company. He completely reorganized the school’s learning strategy and didactic methods along with the teaching staff and human resources in order to make it become one of the first Italian fashion school by number of students and revenues. Andrea also created a personal and professional relationship with Franca Sozzani, then editor in chief of Italian Vogue and scientific director of the school.
In 2009 he created the Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda, the first Italian fashion schools’ association, gathering all major fashion institutes in Italy. His teaching experience is also applied to corporate training, focusing on creative dynamics of the fashion market with clients such as Wella Italia, Davines, Alfaparf, P&G Prestige, Pernod-Ricard. From 2009 to 2016 he founded and co-directed PIZZA one of the first Italian independent fashion magazine, a biannual publication, and its daily website pizzadigitale.it, both with the aim of gathering Italian young talents in the field of fashion, arts, photography and design.
Since 2010 Andrea is a creative strategist using brand storytelling as a medium of communication. He also collaborates with the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana handling all projects related with fashion schools and having the creative direction of Milano Moda Graduate event.
Fashion and costume journalist, Giuliana Matarrese started her career in the editorial staff of Glamour, and then collaborated with Vogue, L'uomo Vogue, Marieclaire, Icon and Flair. Interested in the relationship between fashion and music, and fashion and counterculture, Giuliana leads a podcast produced by Linkiesta called The theory of Fashion. She interviewed Paul Smith, Donatella Versace, Jack White and Dapper Dan and many others. Born in Puglia, Giuliana today is split between Florence and Milan, where she focuses on speaking about Italian fashion from Linkiesta Eccetera, Dust and Cap 74024.
Sara Sozzani Maino
Jordan Anderson
Andrea Batilla
Giuliana Matarrese
Sara Sozzani Maino
Jordan Anderson
Andrea Batilla
Giuliana Matarrese
The iconic CASHMERE 2/28, in pure Top China®cashmere, from remote regions where goats produce the softest duvet, arrives to our factories where the fiber is transformed into precious yarns. The cashmere 2/27, the carded par excellence, is soft and voluminous, perfect for a classic and comfortable knitwear. The autumn winter season is enriched with a new color palette. Distant landscape typical colours come alive and become a ton sur ton melange, delicate pastel shades, brighter in red and purple nuances.
The COARSEHAIR is an iconic yarn, already used for years. It appears slightly hairy with a soft and comfortable touch. It is a cashmere with a higher micron for a perfect combination of elegance and versatility, ideal for casual items and sporty allure.
Multicolour shades made of this fiber enhance its appearance and give to the final product a Shetland sweater characteristic, but with the Loro Piana softness.
A new version of the iconic coarsehair carded yarn, where softness and comfort sporty characteristics have been maintained, welcoming buttons in 3 or 4 different colours that have been added to some basic coarsehair melanges, both in a ton sur ton variation, for a more elegant appearance, or in contrast, for a fancy result.
SUPERCASHMERE is a very fine yarn, composed of pure cashmere Top China® (selected for its exceptional finesse and length characteristics). Very thin and soft, in 100% combed cashmere recognized for perfect regularity and high strength. Suitable for a classic and very comfortable knitwear.
ROYAL is a worsted yarn, composed of pure Top China® cashmere (selected for the exceptional characteristics of finesse and length) and a 30% of silk in intimate mix that gives to this classic yarn shine and slipperiness properties without equal. Very thin and soft: it's suitable for classic and very comfortable knitwear. Its lightness allows garments to act as a second skin layer.
Classic and timeless combed yarn, Wish, 100% extrafine merino wool, 15.5 microns. An extraordinary fluid yarn, comfortable even in direct contact with the skin. Ideal for 4 seasons knitwear. It is possible to have the Nm 2/60 and Nm 2/80 titles with the RWS certification to prove certified sheep usage, specific animal welfare and quality of life requirements and best practices in land management. The wool is tracked along the entire production process.
This yarn accentuates the wool fibre's natural properties, delivering peerless comfort. The pristine fluidity and softness of Wish is blended with a hint of stretched yarn which makes the resulting knits ultra-comfortable and super wearable. Available in all shades of the Wish® colour chart, enhancing all the uses of the classic yarn.
An historical Loro Piana yarn whereby it is possible to find all the precious qualities of the cotton, is BCI certified. The yarn presents a textured look with a soft, inviting handle, and is ideal for creating functional knitwear pieces for leisure time. The dyeing technique used, creates full and creative colour effects: from dusty shades to more vibrant hues, all inspired by nature during spring and summer.
