The Collaboration Of Kyocera’s Inkjet Textile Printer FOREARTH And Italian Designer Flora Rabitti Showcased At Milan Fashion Week
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Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto) announced that a collaboration textile designed and created by Italian fashion designer Flora Rabitti using fabric printed by Kyocera’s inkjet textile printer “FOREARTH” was showcased at the Milan Fashion Week 24 Spring/Summer Collection held in Milan, Italy, September 19-25
Designer Flora Rabitti was a finalist at the Swiss Textile Awards and won the Far Futures London Award in 2014.
Later, she gained experience at leading luxury fashion brands before launching her own fashion brand “Florania” in Italy in 2021, which has won acclaim for its sustainable and genderless designs using upcycled materials.
More recently, in 2023, Rabitti won the Camera Moda Fashion Trust and Max&co ‘Design for Change’ prize.
The collaboration with Rabitti was made possible by FOREARTH’s product concept of “contributing to reducing the environmental impact of the textile and apparel industry.”
Not only does FOREARTH eliminate virtually all water usage from the textile printing process, but it also reduces energy consumption and CO2 emissions during printing because it does not require the large[1]scale equipment traditionally used for pre- and post-treatment of textiles.
In addition, FOREARTH achieves a soft hand-feel for prints – an essential feature for the fashion and textile industries – and enables highly detailed printing on diverse fabrics, including cotton, silk, polyester, nylon, and blended fabric
“I’m grateful to have had the incredible opportunity to print two fabrics with the Kyocera FOREARTH printer, a new technology with a limited use of water, a closer path to zero pollution fashion production. To solidify the relationship with our technical partner in Kyoto, Japan, we created an ad hoc print, a garden in Mantua created with Japanese watercolors. We showed our Spring Summer 2024 collection, with the Kyocera printed fabrics, in the prestigious Fondazione Sozzani, Milano, in the official Fashion Week calendar in September 2023.” Designer Flora Rabitti commented.
About KYOCERA
Kyocera Corporation (TOKYO:6971, https://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine ceramics (also known as “advanced ceramics”).
By combining these engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of industrial and automotive components, semiconductor packages, electronic devices, smart energy systems, printers, copiers, and mobile phones.
During the year ended March 31, 2023, the company’s consolidated sales revenue totaled 2 trillion yen (approx. US$15.1 billion).
Kyocera is ranked #671 on Forbes magazine’s 2023 “Global 2000” list of the world’s largest publicly traded companies, and has been named among “The World’s 100 Most Sustainably Managed Companies” by The Wall Street Journal
