Prada Takes Re Nylon's Circular Logic to Cashmere and Wool

Prada Re Cashmere and Re Wool make two different circular claims: every Re Cashmere piece is 100 percent recycled cashmere, while the Re Wool yarn is only half recycled. Prada's collection page sets that yarn at 50 percent virgin wool certified to the Responsible Wool Standard, 40 percent recycled wool and 10 percent recycled cashmere, with both recycled fibres certified to the Global Recycled Standard. RetailBoss reported the launch on October 5, 2026, placing the lines across knitwear, tailoring and outerwear.

Lorenzo Bertelli Promised No New Resources in 2019

Prada launched Re Nylon on June 24, 2019 with six bag styles and a pledge to convert all of its virgin nylon to regenerated ECONYL by the end of 2021. Lorenzo Bertelli, then Prada Group head of marketing and communication, said at the launch, as quoted by Designboom: "This collection will allow us to make our contribution and create products without using new resources."

That programme is now more than seven years old, and Re Nylon for Sea Beyond added Baltic blue, emerald and light blue colorways in April 2026. Re Wool carries the same Re prefix into a fibre where half of the main yarn is still newly grown, so Bertelli's 2019 test fits Re Cashmere and does not fit Re Wool.

Torgiano Offcuts Are Sorted by Colour Instead of Redyed

Culted reported that Prada collects unused fabric, leftover yarn and manufacturing offcuts from its own facilities, including its knitwear production site in Torgiano, Italy. The recovered fibres are separated by colour, which Culted says removes the need for extra chemical dyeing, then spun into new yarn and made up in workshops across Tuscany and Umbria.

RetailBoss, citing Prada, describes the input as pre consumer material, meaning spinning residues and production offcuts rather than worn garments. Prada's Re Cashmere cardigan and crew neck pages call the yarn regenerated cashmere and carry the same care line: do not wash, do not tumble dry, professional dry cleaning only. The sapphire blue Re Cashmere cardigan keeps a classic cable knit motif with ribbed knit trim and is sized 34 to 58, and the slate gray crew neck carries a knit triangle logo, so the recycled yarn goes into familiar shapes rather than a new silhouette.

A Re Wool Shirt With a Zipper, a Stand Up Collar and Inseam Pockets

Prada's Re Wool shirt in navy is cut loose with a stand up collar, a zipper closure, inseam pockets, a straight hem and mother of pearl buttons at the cuffs. Prada describes it as a hybrid design with details borrowed from outerwear, finished with a tonal fabric triangle logo.

The shirt, the Re Wool coat in anthracite gray, the Re Wool blouson and the Re Wool down jacket all list the identical main material of 50 percent virgin wool, 40 percent recycled wool and 10 percent recycled cashmere. The coat is cut with soft lines and a relaxed fit, with men's sizing from 44 to 60. The coat and shirt pages also carry an Aura Blockchain certification line, and Culted reports that each garment has an NFC tag linked to the Aura Blockchain Consortium for its material origins and manufacturing journey.

Supply Sets the Count at 31 Pieces on Prada's UK Page

Prada's UK collection page listed 31 priced pieces on October 9, 2026, 14 in Re Cashmere and 17 in Re Wool. Re Cashmere runs from a V neck sweater at £1,270 to a cardigan at £1,850, and Re Wool from a shirt at £1,230 to a blouson at £3,450.

Prada says production depends on the material available at any given moment, so each piece follows the yarn rather than the calendar, and everything is made in Italy, in Tuscany and Umbria. The same season's menswear, the Before and Next show Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented in Milan in January 2026, framed itself as evolution without erasure, and that menswear collection reached Dover Street Market New York in September.

Stone Island Sets the Same 50 Percent Floor on Its Yarn

Stone Island says cotton scraps from its production chain are reprocessed into new blended yarns containing at least 50 percent recovered material, the same 50 percent that the recycled wool and cashmere make up in Prada's Re Wool yarn. Stone Island's Q100045 hooded jacket in the Autumn Winter 2026 campaign goes further at 60 percent recycled cotton yarn and 40 percent conventional cotton.

Carhartt WIP sits at the other end of the same fall season: its Curtis Sweater Jacket is 51 percent acrylic, 32 percent recycled polyester and only 4 percent wool. Of these garments, Re Cashmere is the only one built entirely from recycled natural fibre, at 100 percent, and Re Wool matches Stone Island's 50 percent floor while still starting from half virgin wool.