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Pitti Filati, 4000 buyers for the knitting yarn industry

Pitti Filati (Guazzelli-Viani)Pitti Immagine Filati 70 (Fortezza da Basso, 25-27 January 2012, Florence, Italy) is the main international event for the knitting yarn industry.

A research lab and an observatory on global lifestyle trends, Pitti Filati presents world scale excellence in yarns to an audience of buyers and designers and for the major fashion brands who come to Florence looking for new creative inputs. This edition of Pitti Filati will be featuring previews of knitting yarn collections for the 2013 spring/summer season.

The numbers of Pitti Filati are: 8 brands at this edition, 5 from abroad, 20 exhibitors in the Fashion At Work area, 8 from abroad. The Exhibition area is 20,000 square meters. Buyers and visitors: 4.000 buyers at the last winter edition, 1.500 (43% of the total) came from  abroad.

The main foreign markets are Germany, UK, France, Switzerland, United States, Spain, Japan, The Netherlands, Turkey, Russia, Sweden and Hong Kong.

Read here the calendar of events

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