Japanese textile and clothes designer Akira Minagawa is known for his minä perhonen fashion label, which is characterised by a romantic, slightly naïve, style. The design is detail-oriented and conscientiously worked out.
Minagawa established the minä fashion label in 1995 and eight years later he added ’perhonen’, which is Finnish for ‘butterfly’. Minagawa chose this Finnish word because he often travels in the Northern countries, where he feels in harmony with the culture and lifestyle. He felt that the butterfly was an attractive and appropriate symbol of his design, evoking the lightness and colours of his highly feminine fashion.
Akira Minagawa
Forest Nap fabric
138 € / m
Composition 95% new worsted wool, 5% nylon
Durability 50.000 Martindale
Width 140 cm
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warm colours
cold colours
neutral colours
Woollen Forest Nap is a simple upholstery textile. Constructed with a plain weave, it can be described as the base textile in the Akira Minagawa collection. Forest Nap comes in an array of colours. These range from understated natural hues to bolder notes like bright red.
Forest Nap combines well with the patterned textiles in the collection, and particularly suited to cover large surfaces.
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