The FEEL THE YARN competition is back

FEEL THE YARN: 22 young designers hang on a thread for the prestigious award focused on creativity

The 8th edition of the FEEL THE YARN competition starts on June 28th and Pitti Filati is ready to receive the 22 selected students from the most prestigious international fashion schools and colleges. Innovation is compulsory, fantasy is the key word. Based on the idea of sharing and exploring innovation, the award is focused on make the new stand out by combining it with the past through a series of fields visits to mills, companies focused on twisting and cabling yarns to make them thicker and research labs to give an opportunity to find out more about the spinning process and about quality and product control. Ornella Bignami once again leads the training program organised by CPF and PITTI IMMAGINE while the designer Carlo Volpi holds a lecture on his own creative path. A creative path that each of the 22 students is expected to daringly start and follow in order to twist their way and win the FEEL THE YARN competition, which as we know, is based on the productive processes and creativity of Italian spinning mills. The program also includes a workshop on sustainable fashion, a very important topic for the future of textile manufacturing. The FEEL THE YARN competition ends on June 30th with the prize-giving ceremony of the award sponsored by Biella Yarn that enables the best student to work in a specialised field as part of his or her training. FEEL THE YARN is also supported by Trafi Creatività Tessile, a company involved since the first edition of the prize that once again is creating something extremely scenographic. Banana Republic is also offering a special prize focused on creativity in Italian yarns.

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