Sustainability the focus of Smart Creations during Première Vision Paris trade fair September 17 - 19

At the upcoming edition of the Première Vision Paris trade fair for professionals in the textile and fibres industries, which is due to take place September 17-19 at Parc des Expositions in north Paris, sustainability, interweaving creativity with technology will be a major focus at the Smart Creation Area.

Clothing with "smart" qualities featured at  Première Vision Paris

February 2019 edition.

Photo by Lucia Carpio.

Among the exhibitors this September, premium stretch fibre company ROICA™, by leading material innovator Asahi Kasei of Japan, will be showcasing their ultimate hyper-performative yarns such as the certified ROICA Eco-Smart™ Family.


“The ROICA Eco-Smart™ Family is the result of the innovation process marrying the company’s  inquiring mind of innovativeness and sustainability with brands and designers’ growing demand for responsible materials.” Comments Shinichiro Haga, Senior Executive Manager - ROICA™ Division. 
“The new premium stretch is synonymous of transformation: from standard to speciality, from basic to special, from ordinary to clever and from standard to Smart.”

"Closed" jeans made with

Candiani ReLast

containing sustainable  Roica (TM)

Today ROICA™, and especially ROICA EcoSmart™, is the premium secret ingredient enhancing fashion-led collections, including the German denim brand Closed, founded in 1978, which is totally handmade in Italy.

Closed selected the new amazing Candiani ReLast line, the range of market fresh responsible denim products whose objective is to introduce a 100% transformed innovative solution. The partnership between ROICA™ and Candiani generated uses a very special ROICA™ yarn realized only for Candiani. A premium stretch yarn that is boasting a GRS (Global Recycled Standard) version 4 certification, thanks to its high percentage of recycled content and appropriated process of transformation.

Another brand using Roica's sustainable yarns is un-sanctioned™, an innovation-driven performance running apparel brand newly launched in September, 2019; founded on the belief that it’s time for running to give back to the environment all runners take so much joy from.  In partnership with Miti-Spa, un-sanctioned™ has developed and launched with two initial sustainable performance running fabrics called [ BottleKnit™ ] — a 100% recycled polyester made from plastic bottles. And [ WasteKnit™] — a 100% upcycled polyamide made from industrial waste blended with ROICA™ EF yarn for uncompromising smart stretch performance. 

The ROICA Eco-Smart™ family offers two responsibly-made yarns with outstanding stretch performances that give free rein to designers’ creativity and guarantees the highest quality while complying to the most-cutting edge sustainable standards: • Yarns that are ROICA™ EF– GRS (Global Recycled Standard) certified - is made with 58% of pre-consumer recycled content.  GRS guarantees its sustainable mission with a certification by the influential Textile Exchange*, one of the most known and recognized global players in the market. 

• Meanwhile the ROICA™ V550   which breaks down without releasing harmful substance under the testing environment according to Hohenstein Environmental Compatibility certification. Made and engineered by Asahi Kasei R&D team, and produced in ROICA™'s German plant only, the yarn offers additional and relevant circular economy advantages linked to material health as proved by a Gold Level Material Health Certificate by the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute for a safe and biological end of life cycle.