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Ratti smoke-free workplace

Stop smoking on the company premises

In Ratti, employee policies have always been one of the areas of greatest interest, giving birth to a whole series of projects and plans to promote, among other things, a lifestyle that can contrast, in the long term, the onset of chronic diseases with high social impact.

For this reason, starting from May 31st 2019, Ratti has choosen that smoking will no longer be allowed within the company premises and it will accompany all employees who request it with a series of training sessions organized by LILT (Italian Group for the Fight against Cancer) in which a doctor and a psychologist will explain the damage caused by smoking, providing, at the same time, advice on how to react to tobacco addiction.

Ratti has strongly wanted this project in order to promote a new culture of health, addressed to all its employees, with the primary aim of integrate this awareness not only within the company but also in everyday life. Contributing to reduce the number of smokers among employees, supporting them in their decision to stop smoking and offering them information on deterrent pathways (diagnostic or therapeutic), is done with the main purpose of providing a reference model for a healthy lifestyle.

This new initiative demonstrates how the Ratti policy is not limited to research and innovation on the product, but also on the profound enhancement of human relationships within the Group. The great attention paid to workers is dictated by the strong awareness that centuries-old craft traditions must be preserved and protected, precisely because the group considers the respect that Ratti has towards its masters and their creative art as a fundamental value.

Sustainability Report 2018

Established in 1945, Ratti is now an industry leader in the printing of refined and natural fabrics. This is where the infrastructure, primarily the machinery, plays the largest part; innovative and specialized in that sector. It’s in this area that Ratti has assumed a long-term goal towards becoming sustainable in our development strategy.
A tangible sign of this policy and therefore a solid testimony that the making of sustainable value for the people and the environment represents a fundamental part in the Company’s strategy is the new Sustainability Financial Report that Ratti Group have chosen to fulfil. It’s a formal document drawn up to be fully transparent to all stakeholders. Simultaneously, Ratti has now adopted the Declaration of consolidated- non- financial character (DNF n°254/2016) recognised by the Global Reporting Initiative of its most recent edition (GRI Standards).

“Our second Sustainability Financial Statement”, claims Sergio Tamborini, Ratti’s CEO, “represents a crystal-clear report, realized after a model example that wants to highlight the sublime quality of the current relationships of Ratti and their business partners, in a context where you can find true pragmatism in various aspects: economical, social and environmental.”

In addition, “By publishing this second edition of the Sustainability Financial Statement”, Doni Ratti, managing director of Ratti, has stated, “I would like to underline how this report has become, even under a cultural point of view, a substantial time for our company, which is helping us not only to carry out with perseverance and consistency our daily routine, but is at the same time filling us with energy and motivation in order to take on that responsibility for an ongoing improvement.”

With this perspective, more than 20 million euros have been invested in technological innovation, hydro-efficient energy and waste reduction, guaranteeing excellent results both in terms of reduction of costs and the environmental impact. A greater level of sustainability is strategic to the business. Furthermore it is thanks to the participation of all the employees of the company in these areas that it was possible to reach a new added value to the company and its stakeholders.

The KPI and the policies traced in the statement confirm the dedicated achievement of the targets exhibiting a sustainable progression in all of its dimensions; environmental, social and economical. All of this combines with a considerable increase of the shared value accomplished. Throughout the activities respond to ONU’s leaders in the sector. The segments on which the Group’s commitment concentrates, in terms of sustainability, is also analyzed in depth in the Financial Statement 2018:
• The People (uniqueness and talent – the ingredients to success)
• The Process and the Production (matter becomes creation)
• The Environment (Ratti’s environmental commitment)
• The Habitat (Ratti and their revitalization of the area and its community)
• The economical accomplishment and its guidance.

The new sustainable approach of the Ratti Group represents an important challenge as well as a guide to start following an itinerary towards the strategic integration of business sustainability, while keeping targets in consideration to the employees. In return they are asked for full involvement. Professional development, safety on the workplace, nurturing and improvement of the company’s climate have greatly been goals for the Group all of these years. The results and initiatives have been the outcome of teamwork where every idea and project hasve not only given life to an excellent product, “Made in Italy” but the result of all those values in which the Company still believes after more than seventy years of business. It is our hope that this philosophy will be passed on to future generations.

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Ratti Domus presents the new collection

Natural colors declined in multiple nuances, thanks to fabrics and leathers enriched by refined and evocative suggestions.

There is a new air, the breath of a contemporary, never dormant style, that finds concreteness both in jacquard fabrics and in multiple prints. The new Ratti Domus Collection reveals a sincere aesthetics that refers to natural concepts interpreted according to the inner taste and refinement that have always been the trademark of Ratti.

With more than 400.000 designs, the archive is the essential sap of this collection: a space that can preserve and, at the same time, give new life to a treasure of emotions. It’s a connecting point between the exclusive creativity of the Style office and the requests of an always more demanding clientele.

The aesthetics of the new collection is punctuated by moments and suggestions capable of exalting the proportions between form and material, a harmonious mix of functionality and aesthetics, combined with creative and technical aspects, always looking for the right recipe to create a successful fabric.

Color, sometimes strong and sometimes more natural, marks the beat of the new fabrics. Joint chromatic colors, with incursions into the brilliancy of corals, add a touch of freshness and irony to the classic palette of the furnishing world. The new Ratti Domus collection harmoniously combines a contemporary naturalness with a seventy-year-old heritage.

Ratti for Responsibility

Ratti, in order to meet the needs of a world where sustainability, not only the environmental one, plays an increasingly important role, has presented its new Responsible Collection in Milan. Thirty three items are designated on the basis of natural fiber (organic silk gots, organic cotton gots, linen, hemp), artificial fibers (lyocell and viscose FSC), synthetic fibers (new life, recycled polyester, recycled and regenerated nylon) and responsible leather.

From sketches to moodboard, it is here that the creative offices of the major fashion houses glean their first ideas for their new collections. Ratti has chosen to be on their side with a wide range of fabrics characterized not only by the creativity that emerges from every design or colour, but also by the innovation and research of the printing office, leading us to favour traditional printing over digital. This is not only the best expression and execution of the creations, but it is above all, the less environmentally impactful technique. To this, abstinance of metallic dyes and PFC are omitted.

If it is true that each step is able to influence and determine how much the environmental impact will be on the creation of a garment as well as an entire collection, the fabrics of the Responsible Collection move in this direction. Representing a concrete step towards sustainability and transparency, this new Ratti Responsible Collection beats in unison with the certifications that the company has obtained over the last few years to protect workers, their experience as well as immense wealth of ideas and creativity. Only by placing an increasing attention to every stage of printing and production can the company minimize the impact on the environment.

Ratti at Première Vision Paris

In Paris, on the occasion of Premiere Vision, from 12th to 14th February, Ratti presents the new fabrics of the S/S 2020 collection.

For next Spring-Summer 2020, the creative team at Ratti took inspiration from the Mexican architecture of Luis Barragàn. The fabric of the new collection, like Barragan’s work, is presented in simple tones, drawing strength from the suggestive colours of nature.

Four main themes: Sport, Romantic Picnic, Urban Army and New Night. Focused on spiritual wealth as opposed to materialism, combined with the ability to grasp intimate beauty of simple things while avoiding exhibitionalism and ostentation. Each fabric is the result of deep inspiration, together with long, intensive work to represent naturalness and elegance. It is a sieve of emotions that restrain descriptive dispersion by focusing on an essential form of expression.

In the Sport section, technical viscose is combined with striped barrè and overprinted jaquards.  In the Romantic Picnic, delicate vichy check and overdyed stretch piquet are the champions. Stealing the scene in Urban Army, denim works in unison with jersey, rather than jacquard hosiery effect. Last, as a “red carpet star”, the New Night shines with iridescent lurex evoking wet, holographic and lamé effect in the cloth.

The new Spring-Summer 2020 is designed for a metropolitan world that, pervaded by greater culture and personality, has, over the years, refined its aesthetic taste and sensibility towards fashion, always seeking authenticity.

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Parc des Expositions,
Paris Nord Villepinte
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S/S 2020 men’s collection

From 5 to 7 February Ratti will be present at Milano Unica, the Italian textile trade fair. A not to be missed event to discover the new R Uomo S/S fabrics collections.

The new Ratti Uomo Spring / Summer 2020 shirt collection is designed for a man who is an environmentalist, close to nature; the soul is ethical and ecological. Weaves play on the realization of our prints. This is our company’s technical heritage with over 400,000 exclusive creations in our archive. The high definition and fineness of the drawings permit the ability to create material effect while working on lightweight cotton fabrics, linen and mixed linens, or even more fluid fabrics in cotton and viscose.

A journey into memory, into the elegance of the past, arriving at a fixed point in the unstable equilibrium of the present. Formal and eccentric, two extremes touching each other and giving shape to the courage of “being and of being there.” A collection poised between the beauty of formal geometric patterns and the endless repetition of a subtle figurative art, creating unexpected shapes and sizes, leading to the explosion of black / white photographic effects contaminated by pop colors.

The typical geometric lines of the necktie are reinterpreted, giving life to nonconformity as a declaration of self; the uniqueness of different voices. The new cloths of the Ratti shirt collection provides fans the opportunity to express their distinction and uniqueness in a world where “being” so is complicated. The energy of summer conveys vivacity to the fabrics through the evocative power of color and design. The palette is powerfully fresh, ranging from classic blue and pastel colors, to new horizons under the banner of a new chromatic alphabet.

An essential summer color, blue, is proposed in a series of shades that evolve from the aristocrat to the pictorial; passing from blue workwear to a decidedly more subtle hue. Blue, accompanied by marine designs, micro objects or endless lines, becomes a tool to introduce a new vision of fashion; evocative of different atmospheres, for a new vision of the world of shirts.

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S/S 2020 women’s collection

From 5th to 7th February Ratti will be present at Milano Unica, the Italian Textile trade fair. A not to miss event to discover the S/S fabrics collections for womenswear.

The new fabric of the R Collection, evokes an imaginary journey in Ratti’s memory, amongst the books and drawings of the archive, while rediscovering the hidden beauty in the fold of the cloth revealing the creative soul of the company.

In the new S/S 2020 collection, classical values of Ratti remain uchanged. A mirad of meters of silk, cotton, viscose, as well as overprinted jacquard, unravel to tell the story of flowers, in all their expressions. The designs flow from painting to graphic, from botanical to allover classics of the 50’s while heralding back to the “documents” of the Elizabethan Era.

From the world of ties and men’s furnishings, emerge endless checks and microdesigns, as the essence of the creative team translates these signs into jacquards with a strong relationship between design and the cloth. Watery fluidity is also discovered in the naive, Japanese or surrealist-inspired elements that mix and merge in support of a different interpretation of the cloth. Finally, the section dedicated to graphic sports is sprinkled with macro tennis rackets, canoes and golfers, formerly though of as classically elegant now making them modern.

The new S/S 2020 R Collection favours the dynamism of fashion and the continued quest for pleasure. It is a reflection of the love of beauty, true creativity and self realization.

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Carnet at Milano Unica

Carnet, a company that embodies the idea of Made in Italy and which acts as main partner for the most important fashion ateliers around the world for the excellent quality of their fabrics and services, will be joining for the first time, with their own booth, the 28th edition of IdeaBiella at the MilanoUnica trade fair.

On this occasion, Carnet will propose a fully Italian collection made of fabrics born from freedom of invention, a touch of eclecticism and the elegance of classic fashion, an essential feature of the brand.

“Style is a personal inclination” – says Alessandro Colombo, Carnet’s director. “For this reason, Carnet, while conserving the tailoring legacy of our tradition and reinforcing their services already appreciated on the market, will make available to their clients a new collection of fabric samples which are the result of all the values in which the company still believes in nowadays. “

The first attendance to such a prestigious event represents a turning point in the brand’s history and a new and fresh push towards excellence in manufacturing, which is supported by a mix of cultural and craft knowledge.
Carnet’s aim is to give shape to a new model of style and elegance which clearly comes back in any fabrics from the new collection. By being present at IdeaBiella, Carnet looks to the future to produce, supply and sell, even online, a new and exclusive product line intended for fashion houses, contemporary tailors and anyone aspiring to have in their wardrobe a unique tailor-made piece of clothes, which stands out for its timeless and sober elegance and brings the male figure back to the essence of style.

Ratti supports Textile Design Talents 2019

Ratti supports Solstudio Textile Design in “Textile Design Talents 2019”

The company Solstudio Textile Group is holding the second contest for young textile designers: a competition targeted to international textile designers and aiming to draw the attention of all branch professionals to them, and create conditions for better application and development of their outstanding capabilities in the industry.

The competition declares a broad understanding of textile design, combining that notion with surface design: from pattern creation for fabric and clothing to ornaments used in interior environment, accessories, footwear and any other surfaces related to main trends of fashion and light industry development.

Applications will be collected from 15 November 2018 to 17 February 2019 on solstudiodesign.com . Contest winners will be announced and awarded on 19 March 2019.
The competition brought together a strong international jury: Alessandro Colombo, B.U. Director Ratti S.p.A., Italy; Elsa May, Fashion department Première Vision, France; Izabel Wharton, Editor, print & graphics WGSN, England; David Shah, Publisher & CEO Metropolitan Publishing BV, Netherland; Giovanni Ottonello, Art director IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Italy. Also there are Russian leading textile specialists.

The main prize for the contest winner is one-week paid practical training at Ratti S.p.A.

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A Sustainable project with Kapdaa

Ratti, leader in the art of printing and production of the finest fabric, is a made in Italy excellence and partner of the most important luxury brands all around the world, from 1945.

Since 2011 Ratti has undertaken a journey of sustainability, paying particular attention to the matter of waste. In this way the company decided to promote the art of recycling, thanks to a collaboration with Kapdaa – an English company specialized in re-use fabrics scraps in order to create new products – working on a project to create responsible notebook and tote bags. The result of this collaboration is a capsule collection who valorized Ratti wasted fabrics in a creative way, giving them a new life. The idea behind the project is the possibility to regenerate those fabrics who ended his life cycle.

Ratti new accessories proposal contribute to discover new ways to reuse the fabrics, highlighting sustainability and responsibility, in a elegant and stylish way.
To be fashion, to be responsible.

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