02/08/2022
5 interesting Facts about Stone Island
1. The name of the brand comes from the novels of Joseph Conrad. The two most frequent words within the books are “tone” and “island”.
2. The Stone Island brand is known for its innovative fabrics. This concept has been a cornerstone of the brand right from the very start – the first garments were a run of seven jackets produced from a fabric named “Tela Stella” produced from military truck tarpaulin.
3. There are several different versions of the famous Stone Island badge. The original badge had a green border, which later became a black border. There has also been a black and white version, a badge with “30 ANNI” below the compass logo for the brand’s 30th anniversary, and an all-black version of the patch.
4. The brand is now heavily associated with streetwear and the grime music scene but it was previously a favoured brand in football culture as part of the “terrace casuals” fashion that became popular with image-conscious football fans in the ‘80s and ‘90s, who chose designer garments over their team colours, partly to show off rare European labels discovered while attending away matches, and partly to avoid attention of the police and rival team fans.
5. Some examples of the high tech Stone Island jackets made from innovative fabrics include the Ice Jacket, which changes colour at different temperatures, the Silver Jacket, made from stainless steel bonded to a fabric base, and the Liquid Reflective Jacket, which is coated with thousands of glass microspheres to reflect light.
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