Epson, For.Tex and F.lli Robustelli will present the Print Your Vision project at Itma in Milan, 12 – 19 November. For the project four young designers were asked to reinterpret designs preserved in the Como Antonio Ratti Foundation Textile Museum’s archives. They will reproduce them using the MonnaLisa digital printer and Genesta inks and the results will be shown at Itma on the three participating companies’ stands, decorated with tapestries depicting the four designer’s final creations.
Visitors can learn about the latest developments in technology and see how the textile tradition may be revisited using the designers creativity and revitalised with the help of the three partners’ digital printers.
Print Your Vision coordinator Matteo Augello is a fashion and popular culture historian who selected the designers. He said: "With Print your Vision we wanted to show how digital printing technology can be a great resource for fashion. It is a way to revisit the past in a modern way through the study and reworking of ancient fabrics. It means they can find the most diverse uses, from interior design to high fashion. Print your Vision is a link between past and future, making it possible to combine the vast, important Como cultural heritage with
the new technological scenarios that will influence the textile industry in the coming years."
The four designers involved are Mariagrazia Cuccuru, Silvia Lo Presti, Arianna Moroder and Teresa Ribeiro. They spent a day with the Epson, For.Tex and F.lli Robustelli team at the Textile Solution Center to understand digital printing. They later visited the MuST historical archives in Italy where they identified artefacts to use for their projects.