LA TELA DI PENELOPE'S FABRICS ON ANCIENT LOOMS INSPIRE MIRYAKI'S NEW F/W COLLECTION

Myriaki’s new Fall Winter 2012-13 collection originates thanks to a collaboration with the Sicilian company  La Tela di Penelope, which produces precious handmade fabrics on ancient wooden looms. The collection has been presented during the Fashion Week in Milan. La Tela di Penelope has made exclusively for the Italian brand Miryaki  a series  of fabrics in “pezzara” a particular kind of fabrics made by coloured strips in a cotton warp. The fabrics evoke the ancient tradition of weaving and exalt the timeless skills of the weavers, the precision and the care given to each detail. This is a ‘70s cuts collection characterized by rigid  forms harmoniously matching  an ancient texture  and  revealing  care,  elegance and beauty, the  typical features and expressions of  femininity. The handmade element is extremely important in the collection: it  is byword of quality, severity and precision as well as originality. Miryaki’s creations are a weaving of geometric figures that are composed in a series of abstract and discontinuous solutions, of  a great aesthetic complexity, through linear and dense textures. Mia Vilardo and Riccardo Polidoro come from different areas of Italy (Mia from Sicily and Riccardo from northern Italy). After an experience  at Marc  Jacobs  and Dolce & Gabbana, they met  and decided  in 2009  to set up  their own company and the brand Miryaki  which embodies the contrasting vision of two separate worlds and souls developing a harmonious and original style.