Top 3 mix of textures: what are my favorite textures

This article will inspire you. In it I want to tell you what they are my favorite fabrics to mix. As you know, I like to tell you what my preferences are, not only to create outfits with independent pieces, but also how I work in my collections to create pieces that consist of different textures, and it works.

One of my fetish fabrics is silky satin† Although I have 100% silk garments in my wardrobe and collection archive, it is not a “battle” fabric as it is delicate in terms of handling and very expensive for mass production.

For this reason I usually use a similar fabric called “Charming”, which is 100% polyester, but the silk look is very well done. I had a hard time finding my favorite from the suppliers because the grammage has to be right, but very nice so that it weighs too.

It’s the ideal fabric for lingerie dresses or light shirts with maxi collars and when it comes to the color palette for this type of fabric, I go for very vibrant shades such as grass green, small blue or electric pink.

This type of fabric is ideal for visually combining it with something very heavysomething “rough” like leatherette, denim or a textured jacquard (relief fabric) that allows you to get a sophisticated yet casual outfit.

In my collections I mainly use this material for shirtwear and I often mix it with other pleated fabrics or even Charmeuse itself, I leave you with a few examples.

Lately I’ve also been very “obsessed” with everything on the . seems linen, despite the fact that I mostly use it for linen men’s shirts in my daily life, I haven’t started with 100% linen in terms of designs (although I’m looking forward to it). It used to look like a “eyelash” to me because it wrinkled a lot, but now I appreciate its nature and that wrinkle seems very beautiful to me, as the teacher Adolfo Dominguez noted.

With fabric for “working days” I choose white or ecru shades and I love to mix it with some thin or viscose twill and for a more “dressed up” look I could give it a metallic touch as it reminds me of summer and I think it prefers the skin.

In my collection we find several models made with an Italian viscose very similar to linen and it is precisely combined with metallic jacquard details. Of course, the colors I like best for this option are greens, blues, and earth tones.

I should add that for “linen look” garments I like loose and wide silhouettes so that this fabric picks up movement and shines on its own.

Finally, I want to talk about another texture that I’m a huge fan of: transparencies† I love them in practically all their sizes and besides, I like to combine them in the most radical way.

To say that one of my bridal looks at my wedding was knit wool on silk chiffon… But beware! If we put together a two-piece style, we can allow ourselves to mix corduroy with silk tulle (as they say mix cardboard with soap bubbles).

But in my case when designing a single piece with different textures you have to pay attention to the joints and seams, for this you have to do tests and research so that the weights fit me and that the weight difference in the fabrics does not distort the pieces.

And a good example are the mixes of texture with transparency from my latest “Stendhal” collection, crepe with rhinestone mesh or rhinestone mesh with fringe, which you can see at the top of this section.