Every year at the end of January, the knitwear elite and fashion enthusiasts alike descend on Florence for the Pitti Filati trade show. It is hear that designer get to see all the exciting new things that the yarn manufacturers have to offer. New trends, new techniques and new philosophies. For our designers at Wool and the Gang it is one of the highlights of the year. Like kids in a candy store, they explored the fair and came back laden with goodies to show us.
Here our designers give a quick recap of their favorite trend themes from this years trade show.....
No washing machine…… I’ll do it by hand
— Hand in hand with our hand crafted ethos
— Delicate pieces designed to be treasured and cared for.
— Cleansing rituals associated with act of laundry, more intimate approach.
— Symphony of colours, temperatures, aromas and movements.
No Email ........write me a letter.
— Return to tactile and sensitive gestures
— Romantic element and historical value of the letter.
— Like body language, handwriting conveys emotion and personality in a way that digital mediums cannot.
No Car… lets go for a walk.
— Reconnecting with our surroundings.
— Encouraging us to explore, get lost and discover new things.
— Not bound by roads and traffic and the cellular surroundings of the car.
From NYC to Pitti Filati
Meet our new friends!
We had a visit from the girls behind 5Preview yesterday. The masterminds behind the brands simple white tees with bold graphic prints, came by to give us a preview of their new 5 piece paper magazine. We loved the girls so much we've decided to throw a party next monday with them and the coolest shop in NYC Inventory! (more info below)
"The first issue of 5-piece-paper has the theme "5 photographers". The photographers Camille Quancard, Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter, Francesco Ercolini, Sanna Berger & Fredrik Ottosson all got a box of 5preview T-shirts and then they interpreted those shirts in 5 pictures each. The result is stunning! All of these talanted photographers has their own style and all the pictures turned out really different from each other.
It's a bag. Inside there are 5 pieces of paper. Each paper contains an interview with the photographer (made by journalists we found here on the blog), 4 small pictures and on the back a big poster. The posters are printed on high quality Maxioffset 120g ecologic paper.
The design of this particular magazine is made in collaboration with a Stockholm-based graphic-design duo Lovisa & Linnea under the name Studio Ove.”
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Join the Thompson Street gang!
We've only been open two months and already we've built up a strong community of Wool And The Gang regulars at our Thompson Street location. Here are just some of the people who've caught the knitting bug with us.
Get in on the action yourself and drop into one of our 'knitting surgeries' on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 5 - 7pm, where the Studio/Shop team will be happy to help you get started with one of our kits, trade tips or even just give you someone to chat to while you knit -- they look forward to meeting you!
Knitting tour around the globe
We are so proud to get new recruits coming everyday from all around the world! After our launch last year in Paris, the word was spread little by little in knitting cities all around. Here's a little tour of the gansta shops now welcoming kits in their selection:
— BlackBlock (Paris)
13 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
+33 (0)1 47 23 37 04
Photos by Karl Hab
— D&Me (London)
309 Brompton Road
London SW3 2DY
+44 (0)20 7589 2684
— New High (M)Art
1720 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, Ca 90027
— Barneys
575 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10017
+1 (212) 883-7604
— Noa Shop (Geneva)
10 bis rue du Vieux-College
1204 Geneva
+41 21 312 47 04
— Bon Genie Grieder (Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne)
www.bongenie-grieder.ch
— Wunderschön (Lausanne)
16 rue Mercerie
1003 Lausanne
+41 21 312 47 04
— Frl. Schumacher (Hamburg)
Hegestrasse 17
20251 Hamburg
— Tomorrowland (Japan)
www.tomorrowland.jp/tomorrowland
Happy New Year / Happy New Scarf
2010 HERE WE GO! The GANG wishes you an happy crazy wooly sexy knitting year! Lots of exciting things are coming up this year — starting with this little surprise to celebrate 2010, A NEW CRAZY SEXY WOOL KIT!
Today we are introducing the HOODY SCARF, a multifonctional, warm, cosy and clever scarf that won't just heat up your neck but make your head and ears warm too! The newyorkers are served first as you can already buy the ready-to-knit kit and ready-to-wear in our Studio/Shop on Thompson Street, but no worries the scarf will be available ONLINE January 11th for everyone!
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