season, year after year after year, subject to innumerable different finishes: double dyed, cotton-only dyed, nylon-only dyed, resined, coated, emery brushed and so on. Fast-forward to 2015 and designers Paul Harvey and Alessandro Pungetti, themselves both fans and experienced hands at using 50 fili began to ask themselves how the fabric could be “upgraded” to conform to the ever-increasing performance demands of urban clothing. The answer reached them from the cutting edge of the synthetic fibre manufacturing industry, in the form of a new Korean polyester microfiber whose hand is very close – almost identical - to that of the cotton of 50 fili. By substituting the cotton thread of 50 fili with this similar handling but hydrophobic polyester microfiber, the new blend (christened Micro M) became naturally water resistant but at the same time highly breathable, as well as (most importantly) maintaining that same compellingly dense and rich feel which Massimo Osti first fell in love with years ago. Micro M has been used in the current collection much in the same way as 50 Fili was once used: a classic fabric on which to build the essential C.P. Company menswear shoulder pieces: the goggle jacket, the field jacket, the parka, the bomber and the overshirt.
