Textile Update
Here are some musings on the A/W 2010/11 textile season.
Colours
Whilst we fully expect the berry palette to continue for the new season, the new narrative for the coat revolves around camel highlighted with mid to light blues. With big hitters such as DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Chloe, Miu Miu and Max Mara, all promoting a variety of camel tones on the catwalk. Wrapped or DB styling to the fore, soft in structure and hand feel.
Best Sellers Plains Articles
One fabric in our collection stands head and shoulders above the rest hitting all the sweet spots for touch, drape, richness and depth of colour, price and very importantly from a lead time perspective. A cashmere touch but with a price of less around $9 this 550gm fabric ( 70/25/5 wool/viscose/nylon) is perfect for volume business and when you consider we hold large reserves of ecru ready for dyeing enabling us to offer incredibly fast lead times it’s a no brainer.
Noble fibres are represented best this season by the alpaca and angora yarns. Our 85/10/5 wool/alpaca/nylon represents excellent value for a luxury item at around $12 and we have two options in wool/angora blends that are proving popular for those that require a soft hand feel but with a shorter pile.
Fancy Articles
At last, some proper design input from China! Slightly drawn articles in 100% wool or wool/polyester/viscose blends in transitional weights being the bases for well balanced check designs utilizing colour combinations of greys and yellows to compliment the predominately grey tailoring story for the season.
Alternatively there is the double face fabrics in wool/nylon blends that at 750gms are perfect for that sophisticated duffle look.
More stuff to follow but feel free to contact Will to see the complete collection of fabrics plus several new prototype garment styles just in.
