Feeling Natural
DANIEL PLUS LAUREN on Wednesday felt like red was a proper color to wear on the first day of Coterie, only because it celebrates a new beginning for the trade show as its new parent company is MMGNET (MMGNET colors are green). But as Coterie gets a fresh new leader, DPL returns to the warm feels and soft touch of Alpaca Collections, a family of designers using this precious animal from Peru to create fine pieces with elaborate use of color and handmade patterns.
The alpaca skin is so smooth and versatile that you can imagine all kinds of apparel to create out of it, Alpaca Collections with their brands uses multicolor options for the alpaca jacket that is seen above this paragraph, keeping you warm, stylish, comfortable all the way through fall and winter. Crochets are an undying love for also adored by Alpaca Collections, they’re found on its dresses and tops, these alpaca crochets are handmade, and take as much as 8 days to produce. Alpaca Collections prides itself in making high quality alpaca apparel at every life cycle of the alpaca from baby to adult, the craftsman is not only beautifully detailed, but is second to none.
As adorable as the alpaca is, it’s more adorable and style friendly to use the alpaca fabric in multifaceted functions with the Alpaca Collections. Alpaca Collections puts a spotlight on alpaca skin sometimes coming out in strands, that you can use the long strings to make an alpaca dress, which is repeated in many colors along with buttercup yellow seen here. Enter denim into the conversation with alpaca, and you take an already durable material like denim on jackets and bottoms, to get a blazer like top with denim as its base, and alpaca designed in crochet patterns for its long sleeves in multicolor florals, playing out as soft, funky, and functional. Believe it or not, this is the spring and summer 2024 edition that Alpaca Collections has ready for you to wear bow, it’s inspired by nature, and each piece of garment reflects the surroundings of nature in Peru.
Many can find it hard to believe that alpaca is stronger than cashmere, although many times it’s been mistaken to be cashmere. But with Alpaca Collections, you can see that alpaca’s incredible strength is apparent, taking alpaca into multiple directions of designs, textures, and patterns. Soft to the touch, but strong sweater tops and jackets with textured and printed patterns truly show off the versatility Alpaca Collections has with its apparel, strength evidence comes in heavy layered jackets truly needed for fall and winter. We also see this with light turtlenecks that are aligned with heavier tops, plus in the common sweats division with hooded pullovers giving off warmth, softness, and beauty in one casual high quality fabric top.
Alpaca’s reign over cashmere, and softness like cashmere is truly incredible, but the winning aspect alpaca has is its durability. Spinning off alpaca into stronger apparel is truly a testament to this Peruvian animal that roams the mountains of this land. Alpaca does not stand in the shadows, let alone the dark, alpaca’s influence is present on stars such as Olivia Rodrigo with her white alpaca dress last August, complementing her beauty in highly elevated forms. Alpaca Collections possesses the innate ability to use alpaca in multi-functional ways, having the softness of cashmere while having its much stronger usefulness for not only style, but substantial moments like the cold. DANIEL PLUS LAUREN last year at Coterie elegantly loved Alpaca International in this link here.