As the weather turns, we go back to the pieces we know, and dressing gets more tactile. A cashmere jumper pulled beneath a jacket, a cardigan worn over something lighter, a wool skirt that changes character depending on what it’s worn with. Play with proportion and let different textures meet, and even the simplest combinations look deliberate.
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Prada Re-Cashmere and Re-Wool work on the same principle, with knitwear and wool separates that leave plenty of room for styling. The sapphire-blue Re-Cashmere polo has a boxy cut, ribbed texture and a zip fastening, with the Prada triangle knitted directly into the fabric.
Pair it with the anthracite Re-Wool pleated miniskirt, where leather straps and buckles sharpen the silhouette. On outerwear, the triangle becomes an enamelled metal plaque.
Re-Cashmere is made from fine spinning residues and offcuts, collected in part from Prada Group’s Torgiano facility in Umbria. The fibres are sorted by colour, then carded and spun into new yarn with no further dyeing. That means colours and quantities depend on what has been recovered, and an exact shade may not come round again. Re-Wool brings production remnants and defective fabrics back into a wool and cashmere yarn. Everything is made in Italy, across specialist suppliers in Tuscany and Umbria.
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Prada first did this with nylon. Re-Nylon launched in 2019 as a collection of bags before moving into ready-to-wear. Re-Cashmere and Re-Wool take the same approach to natural fibres, where the weight and handle of the fabric are the point.
An NFC tag in each garment connects to the Aura Blockchain Consortium platform. Tap it to see where the fibres came from and which suppliers handled them, along with the countries where the materials were processed. The record then follows the later stages of production and ends with a digital certificate of authenticity secured on the blockchain.
Most of us choose a jumper by touch or by eye. The knitted triangle tells us immediately that it’s Prada; the technology behind it lets us find out how that jumper came to be.
