“A Future Together”: that’s the name of the partnership set up a few months ago between Maglificio Gran Sasso and IED Roma to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the company and imagine the future together.
A partnership that forges the constant alliance between manufacture and Italian design institutes, among which IED is one of the most prominent in the design field. Here, every year, hundreds of future professionals are trained in visual arts and design: an excellence program aimed at developing transversal and professional skills that allow students to have a great impact on future projects, in the name of quality, sustainability and cultural preservation. “Future Together” stands out as the genuine meeting point between experimentation, freshness and the quality of Italian manufacturing tradition.
In the first phase of this collaboration four graduate Fashion Designers conceived four special knitwear collections, on which each of them outlined their own thesis inspired by a central theme, the result of their social and cultural baggage.
Thus, the collections MIOPIA, MEMORIES, KABAYAN and RETE came to life, each embodying the summary of a story to be told through the language of fashion.
Following the first ideas, sketches and drafts, the future designers were able to see their thoughts take shape. In fact, during a meeting with the style office at the headquarters of Maglificio Gran Sasso, pattern drafts were presented, giving the students the opportunity to revise their concepts which, until then, were just figments of their imagination. On this occasion, the yarns selected for each collection were also presented, each closely related to the central theme the garments pivoted on. For instance, the theme of the net was associated with the fancy openwork stitch that recalls its weave, while the theme of myopia was embodied mainly by the English rib stitch, which, thanks to its ability to produce stretch properties in the fabric, perfectly conveys the meaning of something that is at first concealed, but then revealed when stretching the garment.
All the yarns proposed for these collections are organic and made of sustainable materials, while the dyes to be used in the manufacturing process are guaranteed by GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standards).
