SAGA Mink® and SAGA Fox®

News Fall/Winter 2001-2002

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"Fur is no longer associated purely with luxury; it also eqates wit modernity," says designer Jean-Paul Gaultier on how he perceives fur today. And the fall/Winter 2001-2002 collections shown earlier this year in Paris, Milan, new York, London and Madrid prove him right. Fur now plays a key role in fashion as a truly modern and tremendously versatile fabric. And both SAGA® mink and SAGA Fox® are not only in the forefront but lead the way.

The Saga Furs of Scandinavia team works on creative projects with the leding names on the inernational fashion scene, putting forward their expertise and product innovaation featuring SAGA Mink and SAGA fox. Saga has worked extensivelty to make fur softer and lighter and infinely more desireable and the results vame to fruition this season on international runways.

Saga Mink®

The season's top mink trend is, without any doubt, mink shearling. Practical, modern, elegant, sporty... Longhaired or sheared it is velvety soft and reverses to its own leather which is as fine as the finest glove leather. It can have suede or nappa finish like traditional shearling and can be printed, stencilled or laminated. Worn on the leatherside, it conveys a sense of highly personal luxury to the wearer whose skin is in direct contact with the fur.

Saga Fox®

Young, sexy, sensuous, fox is the fun fur for the season. It is used au naturel to make the most of the fur's natural beauty, but also in intriguing applications fro SAGA that result in a textrual fabric. Knitted, woven or gradually sheared. Silver fox, natural or dyed, is as always the preferred trim on a coat or a s uit jacket always adding a touch of glamour.