Historic fabrics on auction: an encounter between fashion and charity

On 16 to 19 december 2014 (with an exhibition on 12, 13 and 14 of the same month) “Il Ponte Casa d’Aste” will hold an auction in Milan of Historical Fabrics, Whose proceeds will be partially donated to the food bank association of Lombardy

This type of auction is a “first” for our country and is promoted by Schmid SpA, one of the most important Italian converters in the fashion industry.
Historical fabrics produced by Schmid in the last decade will be auctioned, with a collection of lots and yardages aimed at a wide audience of designers, who are looking to the past for stimuli and ideas for the future, as well as fabric lovers and fashion professionals, and women looking for big brand names at affordable prices.
Schmid has been supplying the most important fashion houses since 1942, producing exclusive fabrics and semi-finished technical products of high craftsmanship. In fact, with each new collection, the company provides names such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, Louboutin, Louis Vuitton, Pollini, Prada, Marni, Tod’s, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and many others with embroidery, processes and combinations in all possible colours on tulle, wool, satin, glitter, silk, cotton, velvet, neoprene, PVC, microfiber, canvas and lurex.
The auction in December will not only be a commercial event. On the proposal of Paolo Ciccarelli, President of Schmid, and through the approach brought to the company by new shareholders, part of the proceeds will be donated to the Lombardy Food Bank Association of the Danilo Fossati Onlus, one of the most dynamic association operating in Lombardy.
This innovative and courageous choice brings the luxury sector and finest Italian products closer to a new motivated and larger audience, who is aware of the possibility to purchase unique cuts, even to benefit the less fortunate.
Schmid does not only look at the past, but continues to create fashion by designing and creating proposals for the upcoming seasons and in particular for the 2015/16 winter. This is the case of prints made using plates normally used for leather, on bases capable of enhancing their design. Fabrics, which must all be equipped with a drill support to allow this type of processing and to allow the right-side or reverse impression of the design and subsequent work processes.

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