As for the programme of the two-days exhibition, the starting point is the motto “Do not change a winning team”. In fact, the no. 57 edition of Filo brings again the “Dialoghi di Confronto” to the stage of the Networking Area.

They are short talks, led by technicians and experts in the sector, created for tackling current topics, associated to the underlying theme which characterise the two days of the exhibition: sustainability and material’s regeneration.

The themes will be discussed by the very protagonists of the textile-fashion system: entrepreneurs, such as Tomaso Trussardi (Trussardi spa), representatives of organisations committed in promoting noble fibres, such as Fabrizio Servente (Woolmark), Ornella Bignami (Celc – European Confederation of Flax and Hemp) and Associazione Commercio Laniero; managers and technicians from companies specialised in man-made fibres’ sustainable innovations, like Bemberg, Lenzing, Gruppo Radici; testimonials from projects matching together art, fashion and sustainability, like Olga Pirazzi and the young artists from Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto.

To start orienting yourself in the yarn proposals present at Filo, you can already browse the online exhibitors’ catalogue, while to understand the stylistic “mood” of the 57th edition, you can consult “Alternatives”, the product development proposals that inspired the creation of the collections on display.

To access the exhibition hall it is mandatory to pre-register online. At the entrance to the fair, visitors must show the “reinforced Green Pass” (i.e. a certification of the completion of the anti-Covid vaccination cycle or recovery from Covid).

The full schedule of “Dialoghi di confronto”

• Wednesday, February 23

12 p.m.: “Storia di una famiglia nella moda: Trussardi e il suo territorio” (The story about a family from the fashion world: Trussardi and its territory) with Tomaso Trussardi

2 p.m: “Lana: il futuro” (Wool: the future) with Francesco Magri, Woolmark, and Fabrizio Servente, Woolmark

3 p.m: “Innovazione responsabile per il consumatore contemporaneo” (Responsible innovation for contemporary consumers) with Giusy Bettoni, C.L.A.S.S.

“Le applicazioni contemporanee di Bemberg by Asahi Kasei per il guardaroba” (Bemberg by Asahi Kasei Contemporary applications for the wardrobe) with Ettore Pellegrini, Asahi Kasei Fibers Italia

4 p.m: “Il lino, la fibra europea principale attore della transizione ecologica” (Linen, the European fibre as protagonist of the ecological transition) with Ornella Bignami, The European Confederation of Flax and Hemp/Celc; Adolfo Mandato, Safilin; Carlo Antonio Danzo, Danzo srl; and Silvia Emanuela Danzo, Danzo srl

• Thursday, February 24

11 a.m: “Il futuro sostenibile non è di chi lo immagina, è di chi lo fa” (Sustainable future belongs to those who create it, and not to those who image it) with Marco De Silvestri, RadiciGroup – Advanced Textile Solutions

12 p.m: “Sostenibilità delle materie prime naturali” (Sustainability of natural raw materials) – Presentation of the book for the centennial of Italian Wool Trade Association with Claudio Lacchio, Italian Wool Trade Association

2 p.m: “From Forest to Filament to Forest” with Susanne Carls, Tencel Luxe, Lenzing AG

3 p.m: “Cittadellarte Fashion B.E.S.T.: “Circulart” with Olga Pirazzi, Cittadellarte; and Juan Sandoval, artist