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Fashion Network
15-05-2025
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- Fashion Network
Italian brand Loro Piana celebrates legacy and linen at Knit Design Award
Italian luxury brand Loro Piana announced the winners of the ninth edition of its Knit Design Award on May 14 during a special event at Casa degli Artisti in Milan. This year's edition celebrated the heritage and creative potential of linen. Launched in 2016, the contest aims to support young designers while sharing the brand's expertise in knitwear craftsmanship. For the 2025 competition, Loro Piana invited 14 students from seven international fashion schools to reinterpret and elevate linen. Participants combined the material with Loro Piana's traditional winter yarns to create original and versatile knitwear designs. An international jury reviewed the submissions and selected the winners: Irish designer Morgan Rachel Boyce and Italian designer Simone Rizzato, both graduates of Accademia Costume & Moda. 'Our project aimed to explore our connection to linen's historical legacy. My family once worked in factories that produced linen parachutes for the Allies during World War II. When the war ended, those parachutes were repurposed into clothing for the community,' Boyce told "Sometimes the linen fabrics recovered from the parachutes were used to create wedding dresses. We wanted to highlight linen as a durable fiber that lasts, and that can become a symbol of love even in dramatic situations like war," added Simone Rizzato. "Our goal was to uncover an unexpected heritage of linen to offer a unique result." The winning project, titled 'Parachute – A Falling Legacy,' tells a story of resilience and transformation. Themes of rebirth and reinterpretation are woven into the design and stitchwork. 'The concept encouraged us to experiment with both lightness and structure, showcasing linen's natural properties enhanced by the refinement of Loro Piana's winter yarns, pushing the boundaries of knitwear. For us, the brief was an invitation to explore the dialogue between tradition and innovation for Loro Piana,' the designers concluded. Loro Piana will produce the winning garment and present it during the upcoming edition of Pitti Filati in July.
South China Morning Post
15-05-2025
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- South China Morning Post
Loro Piana Knit Design Award 2025: creative knitwear students from Italy's Accademia Costume & Moda shine with innovative linen designs incorporating the maison's traditional yarns
Morgan Rachel Boyce from Ireland and Simone Rizzato from Italy – two students in the creative knitwear design programme at Italy's Accademia Costume & Moda – are the winners of the ninth edition of the Loro Piana Knit Design Award, which just took place in Milan. Since 2016, the LVMH-owned luxury label has been partnering every year with leading design schools around the world. Each college selects two students for the competition, giving them the chance to work with Loro Piana's prized yarns. As the purveyor of the finest fibres in the world – from baby cashmere to merino wool and vicuña – Loro Piana provides students with the raw materials to come up with a unique piece and express their creativity. Advertisement A detail from the outfit created by Morgan Rachel Boyce and Simone Rizzato, which was inspired by parachutes. Photo: Handout This year's theme, 'Winter Legacy – Translating Linen into Heritage Knitwear', put the focus on a fabric mainly associated with summer garments. Participants were given free rein to blend linen with more traditional Loro Piana yarns such as cashmere, and create a piece that stayed true to the brief while reflecting their own design sensibility. The other schools selected for this year's edition were the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, L'École Duperré Paris, New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, London's Royal College of Art, and the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås. Mixing linen with some of Loro Piana 's proprietary textiles such as Cashmere 2/27, Coarsehair, Wish, Equilibrio and Libeccio, the finalists conjured up pieces with inspirations ranging from bamboo to parachutes, and paired linen with innovative materials including apple leather. Helmed by Loro Piana's departing CEO Damien Bertrand, the jury included such luminaries as Italian fashion editor Anna Dello Russo, Milan-based Japanese designer Satoshi Kuwata , French editor Gilles Denis and American curator Kimberly Drew. 'Besides being strong in terms of techniques and experimenting with the yarns, the two students from the Accademia also offered great storytelling, and their project was very inspiring,' said Dello Russo after the award ceremony. 'It was holistic and wasn't just about technical skills – it was very accomplished and the communication element was also strong.' The jury members: Italian journalist Antonio Mancinelli, French editor Gilles Denis, French designer Pauline Dujancourt, Loro Piana departing CEO Damien Bertrand, American curator Kimberly Drew, fashion editor Anna Dello Russo and Japanese designer Satoshi Kuwata. Photo: Handout The winners will each receive a 5,000 euro scholarship, plus the opportunity to spend time in the Loro Piana factories to remake the winning garment, which will be showcased at the Pitti Immagine Filati trade fair in Florence in June.
Fashion Network
15-05-2025
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Italian brand Loro Piana celebrates legacy and linen at Knit Design Award
Italian luxury brand Loro Piana announced the winners of the ninth edition of its Knit Design Award on May 14 during a special event at Casa degli Artisti in Milan. This year's edition celebrated the heritage and creative potential of linen. Launched in 2016, the contest aims to support young designers while sharing the brand's expertise in knitwear craftsmanship. For the 2025 competition, Loro Piana invited 14 students from seven international fashion schools to reinterpret and elevate linen. Participants combined the material with Loro Piana's traditional winter yarns to create original and versatile knitwear designs. An international jury reviewed the submissions and selected the winners: Irish designer Morgan Rachel Boyce and Italian designer Simone Rizzato, both graduates of Accademia Costume & Moda. 'Our project aimed to explore our connection to linen's historical legacy. My family once worked in factories that produced linen parachutes for the Allies during World War II. When the war ended, those parachutes were repurposed into clothing for the community,' Boyce told "Sometimes the linen fabrics recovered from the parachutes were used to create wedding dresses. We wanted to highlight linen as a durable fiber that lasts, and that can become a symbol of love even in dramatic situations like war," added Simone Rizzato. "Our goal was to uncover an unexpected heritage of linen to offer a unique result." The winning project, titled 'Parachute – A Falling Legacy,' tells a story of resilience and transformation. Themes of rebirth and reinterpretation are woven into the design and stitchwork. 'The concept encouraged us to experiment with both lightness and structure, showcasing linen's natural properties enhanced by the refinement of Loro Piana's winter yarns, pushing the boundaries of knitwear. For us, the brief was an invitation to explore the dialogue between tradition and innovation for Loro Piana,' the designers concluded. Loro Piana will produce the winning garment and present it during the upcoming edition of Pitti Filati in July.
Fashion Network
14-05-2025
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Italian brand Loro Piana celebrates legacy and linen at Knit Design Award
Italian luxury brand Loro Piana announced the winners of the ninth edition of its Knit Design Award on May 14 during a special event at Casa degli Artisti in Milan. This year's edition celebrated the heritage and creative potential of linen. Launched in 2016, the contest aims to support young designers while sharing the brand's expertise in knitwear craftsmanship. For the 2025 competition, Loro Piana invited 14 students from seven international fashion schools to reinterpret and elevate linen. Participants combined the material with Loro Piana's traditional winter yarns to create original and versatile knitwear designs. An international jury reviewed the submissions and selected the winners: Irish designer Morgan Rachel Boyce and Italian designer Simone Rizzato, both graduates of Accademia Costume & Moda. 'Our project aimed to explore our connection to linen's historical legacy. My family once worked in factories that produced linen parachutes for the Allies during World War II. When the war ended, those parachutes were repurposed into clothing for the community,' Boyce told "Sometimes the linen fabrics recovered from the parachutes were used to create wedding dresses. We wanted to highlight linen as a durable fiber that lasts, and that can become a symbol of love even in dramatic situations like war," added Simone Rizzato. "Our goal was to uncover an unexpected heritage of linen to offer a unique result." The winning project, titled 'Parachute – A Falling Legacy,' tells a story of resilience and transformation. Themes of rebirth and reinterpretation are woven into the design and stitchwork. 'The concept encouraged us to experiment with both lightness and structure, showcasing linen's natural properties enhanced by the refinement of Loro Piana's winter yarns, pushing the boundaries of knitwear. For us, the brief was an invitation to explore the dialogue between tradition and innovation for Loro Piana,' the designers concluded. Loro Piana will produce the winning garment and present it during the upcoming edition of Pitti Filati in July.
Fashion Network
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Italian brand Loro Piana celebrates legacy and linen at Knit Design Award
Italian luxury brand Loro Piana announced the winners of the ninth edition of its Knit Design Award on May 14 during a special event at Casa degli Artisti in Milan. This year's edition celebrated the heritage and creative potential of linen. Launched in 2016, the contest aims to support young designers while sharing the brand's expertise in knitwear craftsmanship. For the 2025 competition, Loro Piana invited 14 students from seven international fashion schools to reinterpret and elevate linen. Participants combined the material with Loro Piana's traditional winter yarns to create original and versatile knitwear designs. An international jury reviewed the submissions and selected the winners: Irish designer Morgan Rachel Boyce and Italian designer Simone Rizzato, both graduates of Accademia Costume & Moda. 'Our project aimed to explore our connection to linen's historical legacy. My family once worked in factories that produced linen parachutes for the Allies during World War II. When the war ended, those parachutes were repurposed into clothing for the community,' Boyce told "Sometimes the linen fabrics recovered from the parachutes were used to create wedding dresses. We wanted to highlight linen as a durable fiber that lasts, and that can become a symbol of love even in dramatic situations like war," added Simone Rizzato. "Our goal was to uncover an unexpected heritage of linen to offer a unique result." The winning project, titled 'Parachute – A Falling Legacy,' tells a story of resilience and transformation. Themes of rebirth and reinterpretation are woven into the design and stitchwork. 'The concept encouraged us to experiment with both lightness and structure, showcasing linen's natural properties enhanced by the refinement of Loro Piana's winter yarns, pushing the boundaries of knitwear. For us, the brief was an invitation to explore the dialogue between tradition and innovation for Loro Piana,' the designers concluded. Loro Piana will produce the winning garment and present it during the upcoming edition of Pitti Filati in July.
