he Italian sport-luxury luggage manufacturer Piquadro already present in the last edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence a similar jacket made with hi-tech fabrics but unfortunately they never produce that item. Maybe they were so scare to approach the international market with such innovative goods? Well…we believe that if a luggage industry want to approach the fashion market ( which is already full of ideas ) than they must do it with super innovative garment items. Piquadro is already known because of their good style and quality. They were able to in this pat years to stall a good part of this market to Italian Mandarina Duck ( that in the past try to produce garment items too but without much success). So we wish Piquadro will approach this adventure better. We know that they ask the cooperation to Studio Osti ( Massimo Osti’s fashion guru office in Bologna now owned by his son Lorenzo Osti ) to produce this item. We still cannot talk about a “collection” because they present only this jacket. We ask WHY? Also we know that Osti Studio create this beautiful item in cooperation with Saati Group form Como, that is one of the most important super technological fabric manufacturer for acoustics, micro filtration and aramidisc. They create under Lorenzo Osti’s inputs this super fantastic fabric that as” finish” was bombarded with plasma in a huge nanotech machine, technology owned by Saati. The Saati collection is really cool and contain several other fabrics and solutions. That’s why we wonder why Piquadro didn’t realised a full collection? Saati adventure in fashion industry is so young. But now luxury fashion and shoes manufacturers become curious and they will for sure pay attention on this innovative textiles ( we know that best French and Italian companies allready ask Saati samples to create their future collections ) . Here below, a short Italian text from Piquadro explain you the Screen Jacket characteristics.
“La Reversible Screen Jacket rappresenta il punto di arrivo sul mercato di un elaborato percorso di ricerca su materiali particolarmente innovativi e performanti che si è protratto per alcune stagioni e ha portato alla presentazione di una giacca prototipo durante la scorsa edizione di Pitti Uomo. Nella Reversible Screen Jacket di Piquadro la componente di innovatività del tessuto, una trama fittissima creata per la filtrazione dei liquidi anche in ambito medicale, si esprime nelle straordinarie caratteristiche che l’alluminizzazione a secco e il trattamento con nanotecnologia al plasma gli conferiscono rendendolo totalmente idrofobico e allo stesso tempo traspirante al 100%, caratteristica che lo differenzia dalle altre giacche antipioggia.”
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