Spinning A Good Yarn

Italy’s specialty textile companies feel somewhat insulated from pressures on other parts of the fashion industry.fter a difficult first half, high-end, Italian textile companies showing at the latest round of national trade shows voiced a tentative tenor of optimism.

While most mills at the recent Moda In textile show here conceded that business suffered in the first half of 2002, managers pointed to a slight — but encouraging — rebound for the second half.