Photo Credit: Daniel Quintanilla

IS THIS SKI WEATHER?

Today is the first day of Coterie New York here in midtown Manhattan, but it’s also been one in many endless days of a lividly cold winter 2025. Adding the days that could equal to a month and a half, we’ve had winds, low humanity, dry air, temperatures in the teens, and snowfall that’s made our visibility hectic. Without even a single mild break for what’s now 2 consecutive winters, DANIEL PLUS LAUREN and many others have reconsidered what’s needed in winter wear. Luckily here at Coterie New York, there’s a part of the Javits Center which caters to true winter experts, it’s the Apres Ski, the best fabrics and most useful layers which sky pros use to handle winds and snow.

PAOLA BERNARDI

The search for well-armored winter wear collection doesn’t just happen here in the United States, you have to go outside American soil to find it. Part of the Brazil consulate that’s taken up residence here at the trade shows, Paola Bernardi is a 30 year collection offering up “Blossom” for its fall/ winter line. You are greeted with their own factory producing a very feminine collection having solid colors such as green and beige. Cotton and polyurethane are what dominate the fabrics used to make this versatile ski-inspired winter collection. The primary goal is creating tops and bottoms according to how light and heavy you want your stylish winter ski fabric to be, going according to a closed up coat or an open coat. Plus, acrylics play a key role when creating prints and shiny feels with stylish Paola Bernadi ski winter pieces.

TOSATO

It’s not even a case of ski apparel, or what you think the latest technology in winter fabrics are, it’s knowing the true origins of human warmth, thanks to counterpart being the animal. This is Tosato, an Istanbul fur collection specializing foxes, schillings, lambs, minks, finns, and rex rabbit to steer its production away from conventional and into multimedia for unusual fur productions. Toscana lambs involve fox inlays reversible to its own skin which produces clean work on both sides. Minks are produced with other animals furs that surely give buzz to Tosato’s work. Puff and fox surely play a massive role in Tosato’s fur creation. The most conventional aspect with Tosato is taking a conventional bomber jacket and running it through 3 or 4 different animal fabrics. Another process Tosato specializes in is Tarjei to create logos for branding on their iconic multimedia fur jackets, with “Skull & Bones” as very notable. Tosato also takes mink and hand punches it to make it more fluid, opening up the hairs to create holes right through the coat that creates beautifully laid out mink for long elegant coats that destroy winter. All natural Scandinavian furs and foxes bought at auction are only used at Tosato, and are the finest.

74 THE JACKET

Vintage and real are truly the key motivators to creating something new, or at least replicate what the past looks like. 74 The Jacket stems from its creator walking around wearing a true vintage jacket from the 1940’s where at some point, they added detail to that vintage, which was real fur. Faux fur also enters into the mix of vintage jackets along with replicated vintage jackets based off the original vintage. Letterbox design prints and brods details also make up an incredibly stylish jacket that’s lived being vintage, but also is offspring that prides itself as replicated vintage, aka new.

CONCLUSION

There’s a change in fashion going on for the fall and winter 2025/ 2026 season, it’s a season where nothing less than what’s on the trade show floor or runway must be robust. All kinds of fabrics are used to create winter collections, but nothing stands out or tried and true like fur, alpaca, wool, and winter inspired fabrics also sustainable that give you not only style, but true warmth. Apres Ski here at Coterie New York answer the call to those who are true lovers of real fur, and real fabrics from alpaca, wool, and fur animals alike that give you an incredible sense of ownership sans the flimsy feeling. Winters here in New York City are historically not easy, springs are unforgiving till July. But for winters such as 2025 and 2024, you must trend in a direction of real sustainable warmth from ole-fashioned fabrics, as well as promising new tech fabrics. And above all, take up the animal furs as your true source of warmth, and style.

DANIEL QUINTANILLA