PORTUGUESE RECREATE WINTER FABRICS
New blends and patterns are part of the fabrics and knits proposals from Portuguese companies for autumn/winter 2012/2013. Differentiated collections that promise, once again, to integrate the fashion proposals of major international brands and most renown fashion designers.
Preferred by names such as Chanel, Prada, Armani, Ralph Lauren and Burberry, the Portuguese companies return to Première Vision Pluriel to show the new proposals for next year’s cold season.
Adalberto Estampados, Penteadora, Arco Têxteis, Fitecom, Living Colours, Paulo de Oliveira, Riopele, Somelos Tecidos, Tessimax, Lemar, Teviz, TMG Textiles and Textil Vilarinho (which participates for the first time) are some of the companies that reveal the new fabrics which will give wings to the creativity of designers. At Living Colours, for instance, you can find «distinguished fabrics with fluid volumes, that allow the creation of new forms», explains Hugo Azevedo, company’s responsible for the development of new products. «We used conventional fibres but in differentiated blends, creating new looks and new sensations», he adds. Teviz, on its side, presents for the first time flannel with indigo base and bonded fabrics combining different textures moving into a new shirting approach. Simple stripes, bold stripes, small 3D effect stripes, printed fabrics and plaid are some of the unavoidable patterns according this specialist in fabrics for sportswear shirting. And at Adalberto Estampados, the trends are focused on «the need of physical and mental auto-preservation to better affirm our identity», explains Amadeu Santos, company’s designer. Among the presented themes, the spotlight is on “The Insolent”, with a summer colour palette – camel, greyish mauve, old pink and acid tones, such as sulphurous yellow and feminine pink – applied to winter fabrics, to «mock the conventions».
In knits, A. Sampaio & Filhos, LMA, Lurdes Sampaio and Sidónio Malhas show the most recent trends and the innovations for the season. Lightweight, soft and comfortable articles but with thermal and climatic properties which give protection and natural adaptation to the environment are part of the proposals of the collection Polar Winter – Survival Strategies of LMA. «We also highlight fabrics and knits with technical performance, isolated or in layers, with the application of a very thin synthetic film, laminated, which gives breathability and impermeability to water and wind», explains Alexandra Araújo, LMA’s administrator.
For those who want to get to know the yarns for spring-summer 2013, a stop at Tearfil and at Somelos Fios, at Expofil, is mandatory and for those who seek a high-quality manufacture, with all the know-how of “made in Portugal”, at Zoom by Fatex you can find the complete offer of the companies .J Gonçalves, Custoitex, Fiorima, Inarbel, Orfama, Posolis, Raith and Squarcione. The private label manufacture is, in fact, one of the strengths of the Portuguese Textile and Apparel Industry, with the apparel exportations reaching 2,214 million Euros in 2010. This year, from January to July, the apparel exportations have grown 7.78% to more than 1,406 million Euros, comparing to the same period of 2010.
The participation of these Portuguese companies at Première Vision Pluriel is an initiative of Associação Selectiva Moda, with the support of EU funds (Qren), inserted in the project From Portugal. Associação Selectiva Moda is an entity that promotes the internationalization of the Portuguese companies and for 2011 has a61 international actions program in 26 different markets, directed to yarn, fabrics and accessories, fashion, home textiles and decoration and technical textiles, with an investment of 7.43 million Euros.
