Calabrian handloom tradition reinterpreted on organic yarns at Palazzo Spini Feroni: CANGIARI shows at the “Sustainable Thinking” exhibition, inaugurated on Friday 12 at Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence.
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Peonia Long Coat in Sustainable Fashion Rooms 2018: CANGIARI comes back to the exhibit in Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto with an iconic creation.
The coat has a traditional "A pitteja" design, an emblem of Calabrian handloom artistic heritage and its Grecanic and Byzantine origins: completely handloomed from organic wool, it represents the link of CANGIARI between past and future.
The exhibit will be inaugurated tomorrow, on 25th May, during "Arte al Centro 2018" opening. It will be opened until December.
24 May 2018
CANGIARI issues the challenge of convertible items in the new modular capsule designed by Denise Bonapace. A clothing convertibility where garments change shape through a special repositioning of details, making and unmaking them, with an always new identity. A handloom sash on an organic silk skirt, can become a belt or a top, transforming the outfit in an evening dress. A metamorphic dress.
09 May 2018
Research of details and innovation of hand-loom weaving are the basis of the capsule CANGIARI in 2018 by Denise Bonapace.
Warm yarns of organic wool and alpaca wool play with attractive colours, like turquoise, green and orange. They create embossing effects and light up black or beige textiles with colour spots.
26 Apr 2018
CANGIARI FW 2017-18 collection is inspired by the colors of nature in Winter, fused in the precious plots of woolly and light handwoven fabrics. A charming ensemble between the ancient tradition rooted in Ancient Greece and the latest trends.
An unconventional selection of materials, inspired by the origins, by the work in factories, by the nights in wartime.
Powerful literary references, losing roughness and becoming elements of a refined femininity in a setting of contemporary fairy tale with light and dark shades.
28 Mar 2017
Internoitaliano presents Cirò, the collection of cushions designed by Denise Bonapace and made by Cangiari. CANGIARI (nominated for the Compasso d'Oro 2018), a brand of GOEL - Gruppo Cooperativo, is the first ethical high-end Italian fashion brand, which has decided to take part in the Internoitaliano project. CANGIARI, which means “to change” in the dialect of Calabria, revives the age-old tradition of hand weaving of Grecanic and Byzantine origin, and stands out for rigorous ethical practices (organic materials, fair trade supply chains, social commitment).
30 Nov 2016
CANGIARI SS 2017 Collection combines its fluid, light, distressed, precious, exclusive and strictly organic hand-woven fabrics with seductive organza transparency and cotton and silk purity. CANGIARI chooses Black and White for this season, as canvases on which the handloom fabric, distinctive symbol of skilful artisans making every garment unique, paints shades of Blue and Amaranth.
27 Sep 2016
Cangiari was invited to take part in the Arab Fashion Week planned in Dubai from 16th to 19th March. CANGIARI, Italian eco-ethical haut-de- gamme fashion brand, was chosen for the exclusive Eco Fashion event patronised by Stella McCartney and Adidas on March, 18th.
Cangiari garments, made with precious organic fabrics on the hamdloom by Calabrian Women signed by the creative community led by Mariapaola Pedetta, will be on the catwalk as planned.
17 Mar 2016
Fashion Industry and social commitment can get along, combining development, creativity and respect for the rights. The event, organized today by Action Aid and CANGIARI to showcase, in a special fashion show, the unique garments made with ethical and sustainable methods.
A successful collaboration appreciated by the audience, present in large numbers at Nazionale Spazio Eventi to admire CANGIARI creations, the first eco-ethical haut-de-gamme brand in Italy.
16 Dec 2015
On Saturday, September 26th, CANGIARI presented the Spring Summer 2016, during Milan Fashion Week, at its showroom in via Monte Santo 10 – in a property confiscated to the 'Ndrangheta.
16 Dec 2015
The designer Mariapaola Pedetta is back leading CANGIARI creative community. The ethical fashion brand will present the new 2016 Spring/Summer women's collection at Milan Fashion Week, from 23rd to 28th September with a planned calendar of events, presentations and fashion shows. Mariapaola Pedetta has already led CANGIARI creative community for 2011Fall/Winter and 2012 Spring/Summer collections.
24 Sep 2015
On April 24th, 2015 – the anniversary of Rana Plaza massacre in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where, in 2013, 1133 textile workers died- the Fashion Revolution Day International Campaign, is back again to promote a more ethical and fair fashion industry, coordinated by the Italian Fashion Designer Marina Spadafora and supported by Altromercato.
The campaign asks everyone a simple question: "Who made my clothes?"
15 Apr 2015
CANGIARI inaugurates its wedding dresses, dedicated to a refined woman, who wants to live an important moment in her life in a complete coherence with her values.
A woman whose beauty is both aesthetics and interiority.
Even for the bride, CANGIARI proposes its handmade textiles, made with hand looms in Calabria. Certified organic textiles, with a full respect of the environment as well as of the wearer wellennes.
All this coming from an ethic and social supply chain, born from a path of change and redemption in its territory.
20 Mar 2015
“Thelegality Weaves”is the photo story, made by the photographer Margherita Mirabella, dedicated to CANGIARI and to the several and concrete proposals for change by Cooperative Group GOEL. This is part of an unanimous project born to celebrate the 44th Earth Day.
20 Mar 2015
Fashion can make value and an ethical business action can become a competitive factor. During the conference entitled“Creativity”, many textile and clothing businessmen, creatives and designers talked about this concept and its different implications for enterprises.
20 Mar 2015
From February 27th to March 5th CANGIARI kicks off the commercial campaign in Paris at number six, in Rue Saint Claude. After London and Milan, the ethical fashion CANGIARI arrives in Paris to present the collection FW 2014-15 .
The FW 2014 collection is the result of CANGIARI's creative community led by Paulo Melim Andersson. It has a strong character, urban, practical and emotional at the same time.
14 Apr 2014
From February 27th to March 5th CANGIARI kicks off the commercial campaign in Paris at number six, in Rue Saint Claude. After London and Milan, the ethical fashion CANGIARI arrives in Paris to present the collection FW 2014-15 .
The FW 2014 collection is the result of CANGIARI's creative community led by Paulo Melim Andersson. It has a strong character, urban, practical and emotional at the same time.
27 Mar 2014
At the SPACE CANGIARI has just take place, on Thursday, February 20th, the Fall Winter 2014-15 presentation. After participating at the London Fashion Week, at 'Estethica' , the event reserved to the eco-friendly fashion, CANGIARI also presented in Milan its unique creations.
21 Feb 2014