CLAUDIA B. for FILANDE LEVADE

Filande Levade is a new project, born with the intent  of pursuing,  handing on and defending  an ancient project:  our five generations old  family business. (See our story at: www.filandelevade.bio/filande-levade-storia).

A few years ago we took the time to reflect and to think over our path. Reviewing and not only virtually, the journey made by the two families “merged” into the contemporary company, it seemed easy to identify what we believe could be our only possible future: recovering the tradition, exploiting  the heart  of our own experience and competence, studying history to foresee its next moves (which in different terms and circumstances, often returns), protecting a product that has its millenary presence in several territories and societies.

We have therefore re-founded our enterprise, recovering its traditional name, to launch it into the future.

Silk is our epicenter and all our interests start from there. Unfortunately few people know that Silk’s life cycle is the example of  a perfect circular economy. We can say that it comes from Nature and returns to it, (most of the times in the form of hundreds of textile products first of all, but also in cosmetics, medicines, food, fertilizers… shape) where nothing is wasted but rather recovered and valued, without losing sight that silk’s supply chain generates more oxygen than carbon dioxide. Since Silk is the only continuous fiber produced by a living being, its essence is absolutely biological, indeed it could be said that it is a real “biosensor” or “biological marker” of the environment  in which the silk worm is bred.  In presence of chemical pollution or anomalies connected to climatic variations, the silkworm stops producing  or produces poor quality cocoons, so the primary interest of the farmers is to operate in a sustainable natural environment.

If our historic business is therefore the raw material, the Silk Yarn, now it is our desire to show some selected products done with our Pure Silk. We have prepared a first collection of garments, which are focused on the essential values of the Silk fabric: first of all the tactile sensation that everyone knows (excellent source of comfort and wellness), but also its perfect thermoregulation capacity (so garments without seasonality: fresh in summer and warm in winter), its biocompatibility (formed by two proteins, fibroin and sericin, this last one is extremely similar to human keratin which makes it advisable for dermo beauty culture and tricosmetics ).

And this is why for our first collections we have chosen  T-shirts and Pajamas and Pillowcases in Pure Silk: as in ancient Japanese tradition, sleep time is a precious moment in which our body  can absorb the fantastic virtues of silk.

Not only Wellness but also Fashion Style!

Our Collections are produced in collaboration with hand dress-makers Laboratories, in which each garment is made with the utmost care, by expert and rigorous hands.

We want to enhance the colour, brightness and the iridescent nature of silk, to create garments capable of proposing a sophisticated and conscious style. In fact, our customers appreciate the exclusivity of a handcrafted garment, the pleasure of wearing it and the fun of always surprising.

It is our intention to introduce by time a wide range of Products made with Silk, always with an extreme care for quality and sustainability for the environment  ( but also with a fair reward to all the workers  of the supply chain), so that the consumer will be able to fully appreciate silk’s merits and, above all, is able to perceive its characteristics compared to other materials.