THEMES OF INSPIRATION SPRING SUMMER COLLECTION

Raffa collections are always inspired mixing fashion trends with beautiful scenery and art combining also Inca and Peruvian culture.

This summer season Raffa designers were inspired by flowers, geometric lines and color patterns.

They took as an inspiration the beautiful gardens of the Mountains in Peru and the colorful flowers that they have and as a result they propose nice and very artistic flowers with color combinations on the design to give luxury garments.

 

 

 

Also another theme of inspiration was Geometric Lines. Peruvian Culture has a lot of Geometric lines in many of its tapestries, they combine fresh colors with them and create this nice T-shirt with a cardigan that matches.

 

Mixing this fresh colors and elegant patterns this spring Summer collection is elegant promoting the handmade garments for everyone, because Raffa is the art made garment.

FEAST OF SAN JUAN

The Feast of San Juan is known for the multiple fires that were made in ancient times and today many people celebrate it differently.For example in Spain is very common multiple celebrate with bonfires and fireworks in every city, to meet Barcelona now have lived very closely this party and lived an environment of much encouragement and enthusiasm by the people there are many fireworks on the beaches and firecrackers can be heard everywhere, people usually do certain rituals like getting to wear white or sea to bring good luck. This event also coincides with the start of summer. The festival that exists in the night of the party is to be the longest night of the year, kicking off the most anticipated season for many and warmer temperatures for all. This party is like a new year in Latin America where all gather vibrate celebrate with fireworks and firecrackers and festivities last until dawn. It is a beautiful moment to share with friends and family and start the summer.

 

Barcelona Fireworks 

 

 

San Juan Coca, famous cake of the season

 

In Peru these festivals are also celebrated primarily in the Peruvian jungle where people flock to the river to take a purifying bath, this bath is called blessed bath since it is known that these dates San Juan purify the water and persons carrying out this ritual have happy and healthy throughout the year. This ritual is celebrated on the night of June 23 a night before the party is June 24th where everyone moved to the neighborhood of San Juan where there is a mass and this is accompanied by a band.

 

 Peruvian jungle bonfire

 

 

 Also consuming the dish of the well-known jungle "Juane" that has a special preparation which usually consists of rice, eggs, olives, sacha, cilantro and chicken farm dams, wrapped in plant leaves known as Bijao, that is what gives a distinctive flavor.

 

 

Dances are also organized, including photographic exhibitions. In parts of Peru for these dates is winter and what are organized bonfires to celebrate the party.

Mention the Festival of San Juan because we believe they are a celebration that mixes art where you look, whether with fireworks, exhibitions, music, many inspiring elements in all its expression.
Happy Holidays from San Juan! =)

 

PIMA COTTON FOR SUMMER TIME

Another fiber we use to produce our garments is Pima Cotton, very well known all over the world because it is a very long fiber and it is compare with Egyptian Cotton because of its wonderful brightness. Also the quality  is very soft and it is  specially use  in Summer season when temperatures are very high in some parts of the world. It is very fresh and people can use Pima Cotton garments for a long time because the fiber is very durable.

For taken care of the Pima Cotton garments we suggest to wash them by hand with cold water and not use bleach on them.

 

 

We have many different garments depending on the season and for this post we want to show  this nice intarsia T-shirt mixing colorful flowers and this nice and soft material.

 

You can also visit us on our website www.raffa.com.pe or follow us on facebook looking for Raffa International.

Have a nice Summer Season!! =)

THE INCA EMPIRE AND ITS MAGNIFICENT EDEN



One of our inspirations to create our collections is the Inca Culture and their Empire .

It is very well known all over the world the History of the Incas and its very large Empire.
The city of Cusco has this priviledge. The Incas created many different types of work to establish their big fortress. Working together very hard they built the Magic of Macchu Picchu  and they celebrated different activities in order to thank God for all their blessings.

The Incas also had wonderful gardens where they planted different types of flowers some of them very dangerous ones but also colorful and beautiful  because flowers are magical and inspired to everybody.


















For our artisans was an inspiration to create a garment called Eden in honor of this wonderful gardens that the Incas had, trying to design colorful flowers in this nice intarsia cardigan to emulate those mystic and colorful flowers. This Garment has 20 colors  and  the hand finishing  which makes it a  piece of art.

 

Alpaca Natural Fiber, Our main raw material!!

We would like to introduce this Beautiful Animals who live in the Andean Mountains and with its wonderful hair we produce our pieces of art and convert them in exclusive garments that goes all over the world.
The yarn of this cute animals is very well known and has unique qualities like is thermic insulated, very warm when the weather is very cold, longevity to mention some of them.
As a natural fiber our customers need to take care very well of their garments in order to maintain them. Some of our advices is to wash by hand the sweaters and put it in flat place to dry.
If you would like to know more about the Alpacas and their environment we suggest to google it and in wikipedia you will find further information regarding this beautiful animals.
Stay tuned and we will put more posts about them and our inspirations!!! =)