Stone Island Park

The Stone Island brand is the result of many years of hard work by talented designers who are in love with fashion and style. This Italian brand has established itself in the global market as a supplier of high-class clothing and an innovator in the development of technologies, fabrics and materials for its tailoring. Stone Island Park is the quintessence of convenience, reliability, durability and unsurpassed style.

Amazing qualities that do not allow parks of other brands to be used with Stone Island products for their popularity among the people are rooted in the unique features of these jackets. They have such distinctive features and advantages as:

• Exceptional style. Designers of the Stone Island brand put all the latest fashion trends into this thing. They make sure that their jackets are not only warm and comfortable, but also beautiful. The unique design is developed from collection to collection, and for the decades of the company's existence under the emblem of Stone Island several dozens of iconic, ultrafashionable and unique models have been published.

• High practicality. Sometimes it is not easy to create comfortable, stylish and at the same time durable items of clothing. But the masters of Stone Island do it throughout the life of the popular parks. 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, but it is fully justified by the durability and practicality of these jackets.

• Hi-tech. The secret of such a magnificent combination of style and quality lies in the special materials used to create the legendary parks. Most of them - the unique authoring of Stone Island masters. In combination with the original innovative technologies in the production of the famous 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 win the market and gain universal recognition in the fashion world - first exclusively male, and today it is already female.

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

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

The final touches of any Stone Island parks were pockets, of which there have always been a lot, and a wind-proof strap hiding a zipper. Today, many brands create jackets in the image of parks, once invented by the masters of this particular company.

The uniqueness and exclusivity of things from this Italian brand is underlined 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 stroke that allows distinguishing Stone Island parks from any others. Most often, this "compass" is removable - it is fastened to its rightful place with the help of two buttons. But in some models there is a attached emblem.

In addition to the basic characteristics inherent in all the Stone Island parks, it is worth noting their seasonal variations. So, winter options are always equipped with an additional pad, it is very warm, because it has a natural filler (as a rule, it is goose down). Fur, which is traditionally trimmed with a collar and / or hood, is always natural.

Autumn and spring models are characterized by water-repellent impregnation. They may also have a shortened cut. However, the modern down jackets from Stone Island are also presented by some models that combine the qualities and trends of all seasons: they are warm, but at the same time shortened and with a waterproof coating.

To the delight of connoisseurs of advanced technologies and their reflection in modern urban fashion, brand 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 park is present.

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

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

• Tella Stella. This was the name of the model parks, part of the Stone Island collection of the CP company. The material served as a tarpaulin. This jacket is dominated by marine aesthetics, style - anorak .. She received the recognition of style lovers, for which her more modern versions were repeatedly produced. And the designer Missimo Otti realized right away that he would not manage with one collection, and founded the eponymous brand.

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

• Alu C. The model, which brought the brand worldwide fame. This is a winter jacket, externally similar to the model described above, but supplemented with a 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 differs not only in excellent heat-shielding properties. It is able to change its color - from yellow to green - depending on the temperature outside.

• Reflective Jacket. The result of the next experiment. Material - Japanese design - 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 its weakest signals. The jacket is also water repellent.

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

• Radiale. Another model in the style of military. Frost-resistant pea jacket made of canvas and nylon. 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 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 used in production. Consider the most amazing finds of the masters of this brand:

• The use of metal nets in the fabric base. In the production of Stone Island, all jackets are made from materials previously created specifically for a particular model. 100% stainless steel or bronze, added as a mesh to the material, provides incredible strength.

• Add the most unpredictable items. The creators of the Italian brand is not limited 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 and the like.

• Constant search for new production technologies. Seamless compounds, thermoregulation in the tissues, the highest strength and moisture resistance - this is what the masters of a well-known brand constantly search for and find.

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) at the turn of the XX and XXI centuries paid close attention to the jackets from Stone Island. In this subculture, whose followers often get involved in street fights, durable and high-quality clothing is very much appreciated. Football hooligans are also very important to adhere to some accepted insignia, and the Stone Island jacket is a very bright indicator of who is “yours”, and therefore the fashion for parks and jackets of the Italian brand has spread very quickly around the world.

This is not to say that football fans are the only fans 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 rarely afford 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 clothes.

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