Schoeller plays it cool
Switzerland-based functional textiles producer Schoeller has unveiled new trends for summer 2010 that are designed to keep wearers looking and feeling cool.
According to the company, silicone-like feels offer a technical look and understated shimmering elegance, while coldblack technology ensures coolness.
Small classic designs are an important theme. The dominating colours are red, black, navy and beige and these colours sometimes appear as three-layer pinstripes with the c_change climate membrane, or as glen checks with light foam coating. They may also appear as plain soft-shells with Vichy check on the reverse and 3XDRY technology, or as micro hound's tooth with PU coating. Various coatings, some with waxy looks, others powdery or even leather-like or rubbery, appear slightly matt but sophisticated. These coatings are generally applied to water and wind-repelling fabrics such as 100% linen with a silicone finish, ultra-light cotton with a refracted look, transparently-milky coating on a cotton-polyamide mix or a neoprene-like coldblack coating.
Lightness and sheen are radiated by the wet gloss of the water-repelling schoeller-shape in a cotton-polyamide polyester weight. And glow-in-the-dark coatings make a vibrant impact on transparent, opaque polyamide down weights or in brilliant orange in a honeycomb design. A touch of Las Vegas is presented by the artistically glittering polyamide weights in butterfly colours. Various lighter, more supple, schoeller-spirit metal interpretations shimmer in a more understated way using fine gold threads or irregular copper wire. Aluminium-foil coatings on transparent gauze fabrics play with light and shade and, because of the irregular pattern, are reminiscent of moving figures.
