Stone Island park

The Stone Island brand is the result of many years of work by talented designers who are in love with fashion and style. This Italian brand has established itself on the world market as a supplier of high-quality clothing and an innovator in the development of technologies, fabrics and materials for tailoring. The Stone Island parka is the quintessence of comfort, reliability, durability and unrivaled style.

The amazing qualities that do not allow the parks of other brands to compete with the products of Stone Island in their popularity among the people are hidden in the unique features of these jackets. They have such distinctive features and advantages as:

• Exceptional style. The designers of the Stone Island brand put all the sharp fashion trends into this thing. They make sure that their jackets are not only warm and comfortable, but also beautiful. A unique design is developed from collection to collection, and over the decades of the company's existence, several dozen iconic, ultra-fashionable and unique models have been released under the Stone Island emblem.

• High practicality. It can be challenging to create comfortable, stylish, yet durable wardrobe items. But Stone Island craftsmen have been able to do this throughout the entire existence of the popular park. Its quality can be safely attributed to the premium class. At the same time, the cost of such things, although it is considered quite high, is fully justified by the durability and practicality of these jackets.

• Hi-tech. The secret of such a great combination of style and quality lies in the special materials used to create the legendary parkas.Most of them are uniquely designed by Stone Island craftsmen. In combination with the original innovative technologies in the production of the eminent Italian brand, jackets are born, whose popularity and fame are fully justified and deserved.

The year of appearance of the first models of parks from the Stone Island brand is 1982. Founder - designer Massimo Osti. But it took quite a long time for this thing to conquer the market and gain universal recognition in the fashion world - at first exclusively for men, and today it is already for women.

Aiming at the constant improvement of the park's design, the designers of Stone Island tried to release more and more new models every year. And so, by about 1999, the masters of the Italian brand managed to bring their jackets to the favorites.

Stone Island men's parks were recognized when they acquired forms that are today considered classic for this type of outerwear. The cut became extremely elongated, the hood was invariably accompanied by fur trim. All parks also began to be equipped with a number of mandatory elements: removable details, a high collar and additional inner cuffs, drawstring at the hood and lower hem (sometimes at the waist).

The finishing touches to any Stone Island parka are pockets, of which there have always been so many, and a windbreak that hides the zipper. Today, many brands create jackets in the image of parkas, once invented by the masters of this particular company.

The uniqueness and exclusivity of things from this particular Italian brand is emphasized by its emblem. The wind rose depicted on the patch, which is always placed on the left sleeve in the forearm area, is the very touch that distinguishes Stone Island parkas from any others. Most often this "compass" is removable - it is fastened to its rightful place with two buttons. But in some models there is also a sewn-on emblem.

In addition to the main characteristics inherent in all Stone Island parks, it is worth noting their seasonal varieties. So, winter options are always equipped with an additional lining, it is very warm, since it has a natural filler (as a rule, it is goose down). The fur that traditionally trims the collar and / or hood is always natural.

Water-repellent impregnation is characteristic of autumn and spring models. They can also have a cropped cut. However, modern down jackets from Stone Island are also represented by some models that combine the qualities and trends of all seasons: they are warm, but at the same time, cropped and with a waterproof coating.

To the delight of connoisseurs of advanced technologies and their reflection in modern urban fashion, the brand's designers have recently launched a line of stylish jackets that change their color depending on the ambient temperature.

Every year the brand releases a new collection, in which at least one new parka is necessarily present.

The latest line to be released so far - Archivio - is imbued with nostalgia for the old, legendary models released by the permanent master of Stone Island, Carlo Rivetti. The main distinguishing feature of these jackets is the exclusive Stone Island House Check. If earlier the brand was exclusively for men, today its collections are also aimed at women and children.

Since the new collection, although it bears the next fruits of experiments with advanced technologies and looks very fresh (it is sustained in the spirit of postmodernism), it is still imbued with nostalgia for the past victories of the brand. Therefore, I would like to recall the legendary examples of Stone Island jackets.

• Tella Stella. This was the name of the parka model, which was part of the Stone Island collection of the CP company brand. The material was tarpaulin. This jacket is dominated by the marine aesthetics, the anorak cut .. It has received recognition from style lovers, for which its more modern modifications have been repeatedly released. And the designer Missimo Otti realized right away that he would not do with one collection, and founded the brand of the same name.

• Raso Gommato. This model can be called the first of the Stone Island waterproof jackets. It was made of cotton satin with a protective polyurethane coating. The jacket turned out to be light and very stylish, in the spirit of a military.

• Alu C. The model that brought the brand worldwide fame. This is a winter jacket, similar in appearance to the model described above, but supplemented with insulated lining and reflective elements.

• Ice Jacket. The name speaks for itself - the jacket was designed to protect its wearer from the icy wind. The fabric from which this model was sewn is distinguished not only by its excellent heat-shielding properties. It can change its color - from yellow to green - depending on the temperature outside.

• Reflective Jacket. The result of another experiment. The material - a Japanese design - is dotted with the smallest glass elements. This is an improved variation of the previous model, capable not only of reflecting light, but of capturing even the weakest light signals. The jacket is also water-repellent.

• Oltre. Nylon model. On the one hand, it protects against cold and moisture, on the other, the body in such a jacket continues to “breathe”.

• Radiale... Another military style model. Frost-resistant canvas and nylon peacoat. An incredibly warm and at the same time almost weightless jacket.

• Silve jacket

• Bronze Jacket. Two models, different in style. They are united by the same experimental technology - sewing from cotton combined with stainless steel and bronze.

It is not difficult to guess that the main secret in the exclusivity and uniqueness of jackets from the Stone Island brand lies precisely in the materials that are used in production. Consider the most amazing finds of the masters of this brand:

• The use of metal meshes in the fabric backing. At Stone Island, all jackets are made from materials previously created specifically for a particular model. 100% Stainless Steel or Bronze, mesh added to the material for incredible durability.

• Adding the most unpredictable elements. The creators of the Italian brand did not limit themselves to the example given above. They experimented all the time and added everything they could to their fabrics - elements from water filters, substances used as coatings for aircraft boards and the like.

• Constant search for new production technologies. Seamless connections, heat regulation in fabrics, the highest strength and moisture resistance - this is what the masters of the famous brand are tirelessly looking for and finding.

As a result of all these experiments, several inimitable materials were released, for which the whole world is grateful to the innovators from Stone Island.

The rise in popularity of the brand was due to the fact that football fans (in Italy, England and other European countries) paid close attention to jackets from Stone Island at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. In this subculture, whose adherents often get involved in street fights, durable and high-quality clothing is highly valued. It is also very important for football hooligans to adhere to some accepted insignia, and a jacket from Stone Island is a very vivid indicator of who is “theirs”, and therefore the fashion for parks and jackets of the Italian brand very quickly spread throughout the world.

This is not to say that football fans are the only admirers of the brand. Moreover, if you think about it, the bulk of this subculture is young people under 30 years old. And things from Stone Island are very expensive, they are rarely affordable for a simple representative of young people. Today these are premium clothing worn by wealthy adults. And the fact that the brand has long been producing not only men's, but also women's, and even children's collections, makes it a family company for true connoisseurs of quality and style in clothing.

• Designed by Missimo Otti in 1982.
• The idea arose in connection with the designer's passion for military topics.