Research is a trial and error process, full of dead end streets and failures. You fail one, two, three, ten times. But then, sometimes, the pieces of the puzzle just fit, and you’ll create something new, something great.
C.P. Company research ethics is grounded on founder Massimo Osti’s painstaking work, on his continuous try to evolve fabrics and clothing, to make them better, more comfortable, more functional. He also wanted to garment dye every piece of clothing.
Garment dyeing is an amazing way to make any fabric almost unshrinkable, and to give it an unparelleled softness as well. Any piece of clothing, when garment dyed, become comfortable as it was part of our wardrobe for years, even though it’s actually new. But garment dyeing has its rules, like the one who impose the dyeing process to be executed at high-temperature (over 90°). It’s so hot, it can transform fibres. Like making them lose their stretch properties.
Nycra is born from C.P. Company’s will to give stretch properties to the high-quality nylon used to produce a big part of C.P.’s collection. The initial target was to enhance nylon fabrics performance, to produce shoulderpieces that won’t restrain body movement. That’s why C.P. Company turned to Lycra, one of the very first revolutionary man-made fibre which changed clothing during the 20th century.
