LINEAPIÙ LOVES JAPAN リネアピウラブズジャパン
The Pitti Filati of Lineapiù Italia, dedicated to Japanese culture

For the 93rd edition of Pitti Filati, Lineapiù Italia presents the project "Lineapiù Loves Japan" in collaboration with the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo.

June, Florence 2023 – Lineapiù Italia showcases at Pitti Filati introducing the Bunka Fashion College of Tokyo, one of the most renomated fashion schools in the world, as guest of honor in its space. “Lineapiù Loves Japan” is the project that intends to create a dialogue between Japanese culture and aesthetics applied to Lineapiù yarns, to define new levels of interpretation of knitwear in which fashion, creativity, art and culture come together: in the architectural frame of the Fortezza Da Basso, presenting a series of contemporary reinterpretations of the traditional kimono designed by the students of the famous Japanese fashion school.
An item of clothing with an inimitable charm and a thousand-year history, the Kimono, is a fashion archetype of the costume which finds unexpected variations and a vibrant use of knitting yarns through the visions of the Bunka students. The result is 8 new versions of this iconic garment that leads us to explore new frontier territories between concepts and material developments, sight and touch, shape and essence.
Lineapiù Loves Japan is a project that focuses on the ability to interpret time and culture through yarns.

The collaboration with the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo

Bunka Fashion College, founded in Tokyo in 1919, is characterized by a peculiar approach to the development of ideas and by its distinctive way of treating yarns. Lineapiù Italia - which had already collaborated with this famous training institute in the past - has launched an open call to invite knitwear students to deal with new ways of interpreting yarns, capturing their meaning to try to investigate new ways of expressing the relationship between history, form, and matter.
From this call emerged the desire to confront the symbolic role of the Kimono in Japanese aesthetic culture. The path of ideas carried out between the college teaching staff and the creative team of Lineapiù Italia has progressively selected the best examples of the research paths proposed by the students to arrive at selecting 8 Kimonos with a contemporary flavor.
Made with Lineapiù and Filclass yarns, these high knitwear works know how to give new nuances and suggestions to the classic concept of this archetypal dress, reinterpreted according to today's sensitivity.

“Love for history, for beauty, for experimentation has always characterized our way of doing business – says Alessandro Bastagli, President of Lineapiù Italia -. Japan not only represents a country with an enigmatic and fascinating culture, a place full of suggestions and inspirations, but it has been an important part of my personal professional growth journey, having been the first country I was lucky enough to get to know in depth and towards which I developed my first entrepreneurial activities. I am therefore particularly happy and proud to be able today to christen a project that combines my personal and professional passions of all time. A thank you – continues Bastagli – goes to the teaching staff and students of the Bunka Fashion College who have worked with us in recent months”.

ph. DAVIDE CETTA