On 12 November the Embassy of Italy hosted the fourth episode of “Italian threads: conversations on fashion”, a series run by the embassy, in collaboration with the online journal ThePlatform, dedicated to one of Italy’s most iconic industries: fashion.
The event, entitled “The culture of Italian textiles – partners in fashion houses around the world”, featured one of the world’s oldest and biggest silk producers, the B-corps Ratti.
The CEO of Ratti, Sergio Tamborini, who is also the president of Sistema Moda Italia, was in conversation with Maria Silvia Sacchi, founder and director of online magazine ThePlatform. He told the story of the brand and described the production processes and explore where top-quality Italian silk products are found in London, tracing a contemporary plan of the city based on maps drawn by British artist Jenni Sparks for Evermade. They also discussed the strengths of the Italian fashion production line, the only one that has maintained all its production stages almost intact.
There was also a demonstration of traditional hand printing using 19th-century planches from the Ratti archive in Guanzate in the province of Como.
This event concludes the series “Italian threads: conversations on fashion” launched by Maria Silvia Sacchi, which has showcased some of the most important names in Italian fashion. The guests this year have been Luca Sburlati, CEO of Pattern Group; Renzo Rosso, founder of OTB; and Alfonso Dolce, CEO of Dolce & Gabbana. 2025 will see a new series.
