The best and much sole Italian and Anglo-Saxon fabrics

We have always paid close attention to satisfy the needs of our consumers, with the only use of the best fabrics and much sole of the Italian and Anglo-Saxon tradition representing the most advanced synthesis of comfort, versatility, lightness, crease resistance and beauty and quality. Virgin wool, cashmere, vicuña, linen, cotton and silk. All linings are 100% Cupro by AsahiKASEI.

Merino Wool

Wool was the first natural fiber used for clothing and still remains among the most important fibres because of its hygroscopic, breathable and insulating characteristics. The most precious wool comes from the merino sheep, which originated in the Mediterranean coastal area but was introduced towards the end of the eighteenth century in Australia and New Zealand, where they found an ideal habitat.

Cashmere

Cashmere is a rare and precious fiber with extraordinary traits. It is obtained exclusively from the fleece of the Hyrcus goat, native to the mountainous regions of Cashmir and now present mainly in Northern China, Mongolia, Iran and Afghanistan. In order to survive in a hostile environment, with bitterly cold winters and torrid summers, the Hyrcus goat has developed beneath its coarser outer coat an underfleece called duvet, which we know as cashmere. This incredibly light, soft and fine fiber that measures around 14 microns (thousandths of a millimetre) has an extremely elevated capability of maintaining thermal insulation against both cold and hot climates. Cashmere is such a precious fibre because of the small quantity of duvet the goat produces each year, about 150-200 grams.

Baby Cashmere

Baby Cashmere is the duvet exclusively obtained from young Hyrcus goats. This incredible fibre - extremely fine and soft - is obtained through a delicate combing process, which is absolutely harmless for the little animals.

Vicuña

The world's finest fibre. It was only in the early 1960s that the WWF, together with the Peruvian government, started a programme of protection that saved the species from complete extinction, declared endangered in the Washington Convention of 1976. At the time they only numbered no more than 5,000 but have grown today to over 160,000 in South America of which over 100,000 are located in Peru, all living in the wild. The world's finest fibre. It was only in the early 1960s that the WWF, together with the Peruvian government, started a programme of protection that saved the species from complete extinction, declared endangered in the Washington Convention of 1976. At the time they only numbered no more than 5,000 but have grown today to over 160,000 in South America of which over 100,000 are located in Peru, all living in the wild.
Fragile, graceful and very shy, but also gifted with extreme agility, the vicuña is the smallest of the camel species, growing to an adult height that varies from 70 to 90 cm. and a weight of no more than fifty-five kilos. The ambitious and successful program for the conservation and international promotion of vicuña products immortalizes the legend of the people of the Andes that this unique fibre was a gift of the gods and therefore too precious and exclusive to be used by anyone but the royal family.
Already appreciated and protected by the Incas, who forbad them to be killed, as their fleece was reserved to clothe only the highest class, vicuñas are still worshipped as sacred animals by the Aymara Indians of southern Peru and Bolivia today. The Inca emperors wore nothing but clothes made of fabrics woven from vicuña wool. They would wear them only once, before offering them to a favourite as a priceless gift. In this way, the Inca sovereign would express his decision to honour and flatter those people who had served the state well or done something of special merit.
The extraordinary characteristics of this fibre justify the legendary aura. The extremely fine, light, soft, and resistant fibre, with an average diameter of 12-13 microns, performs an amazing heat regulating function that protects from the severe winters and the torrid summers. The vicuña developed this extremely precious down, that varies from golden chestnut to a deep tan colour, in order to survive this typical climate of the Andean highlands. The adult animal produces only 250 grams of coat every two years which is then reduced to 120 grams after shearing. Therefore, to produce an overcoat in vicuña the fleece of 25 to 30 animals is needed. This rarity of this fibre along with the authentic expertise and knowledge of how work it further increases the intrinsic value of vicuña fabrics and garments.