Innovations Spring // Summer 11

ADDITIONALS

Hartmann: Eco Unlimited

M. Grabher: Gel Gems

Seram Europe: Transfers par Excellence

New textile transfer processes are highlighted by the French for the next season. Famous the world over for all types of decorative accessories, this company presents them in various designs from logotypes all the way through to ornaments. All of them are suited for even the finest materials including lace, muslin and micro-fibre fabrics, to name but a few. This is made possible by laminating the materials with polyurethane film, which allows for smooth die and laser cutting. With the right heat transfer press customers can even apply these transfer prints themselves.
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Lampo

Zip fasteners mean the “world” to this Italian firm. A new addition to their eco line are organic cotton tapes and casein tapes. In addition to this the collection revisits yacht challenge and sports themes in blue and white.
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Knopf und Knopf International: Salmon Leather

Fish skin is a novelty in itself. But now the German fastenings specialists have also used it to cover buttons and belt buckles in different sizes and shapes. An added kick: salmon skin can also be dyed in a wide variety of colours. Other innovations here are the firm’s new in-house developments for metal press studs in various sizes from small to big.
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Butonia-Kahage: Bottles become Buttons

These additionals specialists in the Dutch Butonia Group take sustainability both seriously and literally. They have recently developed buttons, buckles, drawstring stoppers and ends from recycled PET bottles to perfectly complement the apparel fabrics made of 100 % recycled PET. The transparent base material with a green tinge resembles recycled cullet and can vary from batch to batch depending on waste product availability. Using eco-friendly dyestuffs many original colours can be recreated. The surface is coloured but the transparency of the base material is retained.
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Klaus Korte Etiketten: Go ahead

Label expert Klaus Korte Etiketten from Schwelm, Germany not only runs its own production facilities in Schwelm and the Romanian city Odorheiu but has now also expanded distribution with partners in Turkey and Hong Kong/China. By company accounts finer, high-resolution labels are currently in greater demand and the market is seeing a lower propensity to take risks in terms of colour – this is because Corporate Design often also puts a stop to creative will and because customers are now demanding extremely short delivery periods.
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Ozkural Labels: Optimism

The labels from this Turkish firm put you in a good mood. For prints they use natural materials as well as organic cotton. Dyestuffs are natural and ecofriendly. Woven labels convince us with a soft feel and scribble effects, similar to pencil drawings, so fine and pure. Decorative beads and the occasional shiny effect, on the other hand, make for opulence. And for children’s wear fine textures and lots of colour are very much in fashion.
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QST Europe: Worth a Look Inside

The design team at this the world’s largest supplier and producer of fashionable and innovative pocket linings, creative trouser waistbands and other garment “insides” has created various highlights. Mixing with sophisticated yarn colours, prints and discreet Italian weave structures are brave coloured denims and garment-dyed items such as purple as well as fancies like reverse prints for womenswear plus ginghams and ticking stripes. Sporty and casual menswear can look forward to geometric designs, fashion coloured plaids and new stripes.
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Bornemann-Etiketten: Colour Symphonies

Here labels radiate with clear-cut design and bold colouring. The modern sports and outdoor labels for all segments from women’s wear through to children’s wear and underwear follow the “loop” trend theme. Rural and idyllically inspired, handmade looks also feature in the collection as do cosmic inspired denim themes. And there will also be celebrations at the stand because Bornemann-Etiketten GmbH will be five years old!
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Avery Dennison

A wealth of materials, ideas and styles are brought together by the international design team of this American label maker in their seasonal theme “Evolve”. Handcrafted techniques and artistic recycling feature in the trend theme “Improvisation”. The interplay of naturalism and high-tech display all new looks in “Discover”. By contrast, the mood at “Ambiguous” is fragile and delicate while “Metamorphosis” experimentally but sensitively copies nature.
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COLLECTIONS

Wolbo: Lively

KBC: Reflection

These German fabric finishers take us off into fantasy worlds: yarns shimmer in different colours, surfaces reflect or mirror light. As does the new satin in 52% cotton/48% PA or the new satin in 62% cotton/38% PA with a sparkling effect. Likewise, film laminations and metallic and matt/shine effects produce subtle reflections. Chiffons, silk crepe, novel silk gauze and delicate polyester items fuse a light weight with a soft, flowing drape. In contrast to this, natural fibre fabrics with fine textures, irregular surfaces and various washes project natural modernity. In addition to neutrals the focus is on red tones such as orange and coral but also on yellow and blue with a green tinge. And: “Khaki is gaining in importance”.
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Huber Tricot: BrighTex

These Swiss jersey experts are debuting their new special treatment “BrighTex”. This finish gives such materials as cotton, viscose, micro modal and Tencel a classy lustre and a pleasantly soft touch. This effect is particularly fascinating with wool fabrics. Instead of itching they boast a high cuddle factor and clearly improved pilling properties.
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Feinjersey: New Generation

“Feinjersey Finest” is representative of an entirely new generation of fine rib fabrics. These Austrian knit specialists have collaborated with leading machinery manufacturers to develop finest ribbed fabrics that project an extra-fine, opaque and, hence, smart look – comparable to that of single-jersey fabrics but boasting the wear properties of fine ribbed ware. High-tech machines with the finest needle gauge currently available on the market and highest- quality yarns make for an extremely clean look and interesting fabric widths.
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Heritage Cashmere: Luxury Summer

For summer this comparatively young English company uses innovative yarn blends and creative patterns to underscore the uniquely natural character of cashmere and its creative potential for luxurious knitted items and accessories. Cashmere, silk, lamb’s wool and mixtures of these luxury fibres form the backbone of the collection. Innovations thrive on new technology such as printed warp yarns and irregular dyes.
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Crespi 1797: Linen Symphony

“Orbetello” is a blend made of 58% linen, 39% viscose and 3% spandex and these Italian linen specialists have already convinced haute couture designers to use it. 290g light and 1.40 m wide the fabric is piece-dyed and also supplied with a machine-washable finish. Also new here are denim looks, also as dyed yarn fabrics in indigo-coloured cotton and coloured linen yarns. The colour card for solid or striped fabrics is lavish covering 20 shades.
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Lanificio di Tollegno: More Casualness

These Italian wool weaving specialists have come down from classical Mt. Olympus, as it were, and are now also offering, for menswear, printed, scoured and pigment-dyed wool in weights between 270g per running metre for jackets and blazers and 240g per running metre for suits. Alongside this there are printed and scoured wools with pinstripe designs, rough, crepe-like wools and pigment-dyed fil à fils. Blends with linen-polyester and wool made to look and feel like cotton through by finishing are new. Beyond this, small-patterned cotton-linen blends are amongst the summer highlights. Colours: natural tones and blue.
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Lectra: Speed Design

Six months after the launch of the new version of Lectra’s Kaledo Design Suite (V2R1) comparative tests have shown that designers now only need half the time for repetitive steps. Large files can be processed in record time. Kaledo also saves lots of time over the industry’s earlier U4ia standard. Incidentally: the V2R1 also features a plug-in that enables you to save and classify sketches from Adobe® Illustrator ® CS3/4 straight into the Kaledo Suite. These sketches can not only be shared during the entire design and development process but they can also be edited, elaborated with colours and fabric patterns or added on for creating collection boards and other communication materials. This simple and efficient interaction speeds up the exchange of ideas, avoids error and creates more time and scope for creative work.
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Vieböck: Colourscape

For these Austrian linen specialists the words “test tube” feature nowhere in their vocabulary. Here designs are still produced by hand before they go to the loom. For summer they feature fresh patterns and colours, checks and stripes – woven in the finest cotton yarn and thread or in linen. The colour scheme includes warm and cool tones: fresh yellow, orange, red and lilac tones plus blue and green. New combinations feature red and black and yellow and green.
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Mieta: Colour

These Czech coloured woven specialists combine classic designs with high-fashion coloured checks and feature easy care finishes and slightly tumbled items in their range. In addition to pure cotton and Lycra blends the summer range also includes linen.
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BLUEZONE

Vicunha: Ladylike

YKK goes bluezone

These specialists for jeans accessories now also have direct access to denim fans at munichfabricstart- pre collections. YKK Turkey is represented with its Turkish branch as a newcomer in the bluezone but is just as innovative as its colleagues in the additionals segment. In both segments vintage-jeans tack buttons and studs are reminiscent of corroded tools and therefore look masculine and rough. Oriental influences and patina enhancements are designed for women’s jeans, which can also take discreet diamante decorations. For the “in” denim blouse theme there are pepped-up mother-of-pearl, sprocket-style press studs as well as new colour and material combinations featuring glitter or jiggy prints.
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Hecking: Vintage & Sons

“Good vintage denims are timeless” say this German firm – because this material features a beautiful, unpretentious flame yarn in the warp in such traditional colours as indigo, blue black or grey and similar weaves. Weights for women’s and men’s wear trousers/skirts fluctuate between 8 and 11 oz. More emphasis has now been placed on highfashion weaves, stripes and checks – also in a dirty look – now that vintage has become standard and destroyed-look washes are at an apex. Trendy shirts feature both rustic and exquisite preppy blends offered in cotton/micro-Modal/cashmere.
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Badjatex: Fit For Europe

Many stretch materials also containing Dow XLA form the focal point of the Indonesian prime collection Badjatex. Materials made of up to 100% organic cotton or denims in recycled cotton follow the trend towards ethical consumption and sustainability. Top-fashion fabrics include rayon admixtures since they add shine to jeans. This collection represented by the agency Bitzer + Single also features various coatings, textures and washes.
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Isko: Sexy Jeggings

The most recent concept from this Turkish firm follows the latest trend – super lightweight denim weighing under seven ounces (after washing), as supple as a second skin and featuring “certified” shrinkage levels, as they call them. This fabric comes in different finishes and colours including highly topical leather looks. Other themes are Hyper Stretch, Recall, 4-Motion and Blue Core Man.
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