Pitti Filati: the key International rendez-vous for the textile and knitwear industry where new fashion and lifestyle trends are launched will be held in Florence. This, the 79th edition, will feature previews of yarns for the 2017/2018 fall-winter season. The event will also showcase products like such as A & B Studio Adriana Sorg Csas, Industria Spa Italian Yarn, Acorn, Alpes Spa Manufacturing Yarn, Biagimar Zipper, Poala Botto Spa, Cariaggi Lanificio Spa, E. Miroglio Srl, Spa Filartex and many more etc. in the Apparel & Clothing industry.

Both a dynamic research lab and an authoritative global observatory that looks onto lifestyle trends for the future, with a total of 140 brands at this edition, 30 of which are from abroad, Pitti Filati presents world-scale excellence in yarns to its audience of international buyers and designers from the biggest names in fashion who come to Florence looking for creative inspiration.

The new names and re-entries at this edition include: Olimpias (Galli Filati, Filma, Goriziana), Sato Seni, Filitaly Lab, Knoll, Power, and Woolyarns, Polipeli, Mohair South Africa.

Pitti Italics, is the program through which the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery promotes and supports internationally promising new-generation Italian or Italy-based fashion designers. Now for the first it will present a special event at Pitti Filati. The featured name will be SANSOVINO 6, the brand founded by the American designer Edward Buchanan.

The event is produced by Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery in collaboration with Pitti Immagine

Elsewhere, the new edition of Feel the Yarn will be stronger than ever. Produced by Pitti Immagine and Consorzio Promozione Filati – the competition is for aspiring designers from some of the world’s best fashion schools, and it aims at supporting young talents who will create original knit garments, thereby expanding the creative potential of yarns manufactured by the finest mills in Italy.

Around twenty-six students from 13 prestigious schools, and 22 Italian mills, coordinated by Consorzio Promozione Filati will be participating at Pitt Filati. The theme for the competition, coordinated by Ornella Bignami of Elementi Moda, will be 'Knitting Time'.

The Spazio Ricerca, the experimental observatory where trends are analyzed and launched, will take place under the theme, H24 – twenty-four hours in knit, and will explore the materials’ potentials in relation to chemical and physical changes, sensations and needs that regulate our bodies and our days.

Pitti Filati a three day event will take place from 29th June to the 1st July 2016 in Florence, Italy.