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Contemporanea (pavilion of contemporary art) in Milan. Blessed with a heightened proclivity for innovation and non-industrial research, in 1985 Antonio Ratti created, in Como, the Foundation bearing his name. The foundation is fully dedicated to cultural and historical research in the world of textiles (a collection of ancient fabrics, themed exhibitions and fora), and to the promotion of the most talented visual artists.
On the back of this initiative Antonio Ratti decided, in 1995, to finance, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a centre set up to conserve, restore and catalogue the textile collections owned by the museum. And so the Antonio Ratti Textile Center was established – it is, today, one of the most significant centres open to the public inside an art gallery. It is perfectly equipped for research and for the conservation of fabrics. November 1998 saw the opening of the Museo Tessile (textile museum) of the Antonio Ratti Foundation
– subsequently renamed Museo Studio del Tessuto. This museum houses the collection of antique fabrics that he collected with passion and foresight throughout the whole of his life. The collection is now looked after, with the same passion, by his daughter Annie Ratti.
AREA
Collezioni
The manufacturing and marketing of textiles and fabric accessories for the mid market
AREA
Fast Fashion*
The manufacturing and marketing of textiles and fabric accessories for the Fast Fashion segment (Men and Women)
AREA
Furnishings
The manufacturing and marketing of printed, plain and yarn-dyed fabrics, for furnishings
AREA
Studio
The manufacturing and marketing of textile accessories through licence contracts or alternative distribution channels such as accessory dealers, uniforms and corporate gifting, e-commerce and new retailers
AREA
Carnet
The manufacturing and marketing of retail fabrics (mainly to designers, quality hemming and creators of made-to-measure fashion)
AREA
Ratti Luxe
The manufacturing and marketing of textiles and fabric accessories for the high-end market
RATTI GROUP | Sustainability report 2019
1.3 The Ratti Group today
The Ratti Group’s activities
The Ratti Group is a leader in the creation and manufacture of printed, plain and yarn-dyed fabrics for clothing, ties, shirts, beachwear, underwear and furnishings.
Worldwide, it produces and distributes hemmed products, in particular accessories for men and women such as ties, shoes and scarves.
With a heritage that is closely linked to the manufacturing of silk, over time Ratti has perfected its workmanship with different natural fibres, composite fibres and technical fibres. Ratti manages and controls the full production chain: from the creative phase,
including the fabric design and production planning, to ennoblement processes (weaving, dyeing, printing and finishing) and hemming.
The company works with leading global luxury and prêt-à-porter fashion houses. Apart from Italy and Europe in general, the main markets served are America and Japan. Ratti customers from the fashion, luxury, fast fashion and furnishing sectors purchase textile accessories that are finished or still fabrics
so they can proceed to hemming finished products (clothing or furnishings) that can be launched on the consumer market. For the licensing segment, belonging to Area Ratti Studio (cases in which
Ratti – as the licensor – produces and sells textile accessories which sport a specific brand), customers are retailers. Its annual production exceeds five million metres of fabric.
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OF REVENUES INVESTED IN RESERACH AND DEVELOPMENT
849
TOTAL COLLEAGUES
116.3
EURO INVOICED BY
THE RATTI GROUP IN 2019
900thousand
FINISHED GARMENTS SOLD
5+million
METRES OF FABRIC SOLD
4
PRODUCTION PLANTS
%
million
*Fast Fashion: the clothing industry sector which produces collections inspired by high fashion but sold at reasonable prices and renewed rapidly.
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