Raw materials

Today, the joint-stock company provides currying and dying of the fells of rabbit, mink, nutria, fox, polar fox, musquash, astrakhan, lambskin, sheepskin, and others. In the modern technological processes, equipment and chemicals of the known western companies are used, such as: “Bonis”, “Shtrobel”, “Balkoni”, “Shtockhausen”, “Klariant”, “Lovenstin”, “Coloros”. With the purpose of promotion of the process of storing of the qualitative fur raw materials, the “Hutrosyrovyna”, LTD was created attached to the OJSC “Fur Company “Tysmenytsia”.

Main types of fur, processed by the Company:

Mink
 
Being one of the traditional and the most valuable kinds of fur, nowadays, mink has become a usual and everyday fur. According to some sources, mink has started to be bred in America, in the end of XIX century, but, according to another sources, the first mink-breeding farms have appeared in Scandinavia, in the 40th. In any case, until now, North America and Scandinavia are the leaders in this business. As many other things, mink was brought into fashion by Hollywood, in the 30th. It existed in its classical form, until in 60th designers started experiments with it. In the Pako Rabanne’s collection, there appeared suits of mink, mink skirts, and jackets, enchased with metal plates and rings. On the covers of fashion magazines, there stood in beauty various mink pelerines and bright-colored mantelets. In the 80th, mink started to be used in sewing of luxurious mantles, which corresponded to spirit of the period. They had become a necessary attribute of a rich woman. In 1996, Michael Cores, in his collection “Pologeorgis”, represented a jacket out of white, shortly cut mink, and a new history of this fur had started. Since then, mink started to be used and treated like textile – it was being colored, whitened, photoprinted and printed, joined with various flexible materials.

Sable

Russian sable always was a symbol of luxury and wealth. Sable fur coats, coats, and redingotes, decorated with this precious fur, and even just collars and boas were always in great favor. It was considered a sign of a special stylishness, if a person wore sable with absolute indifference, or, as it was said: “to carelessly wear money on oneself". Until now, a suchlike manner of wearing of expensive fur is considered to be the unwritten rule of elegancy. In the beginning of the 20th century, prices for sable furcoats came to the point of absurdity – a one could buy a house for same money. During World War II, sable was imitated using marten fur. That happened because the demand for precious furs hadn’t grown smaller; on the contrary, it had even risen under the noticeable influence of Hollywood. In the 60-70th, sable took a back seat, and then, when the rich 80th came, it returned in its traditional look. In 1996, Mark Jacobs gave a new recommendation to sable: he offered cloth made of a shortly-cut sable. This had completely changed treatment of sable. It stopped being a precious thing, which was stored in the wardrobe near an evening dress Haute Couture. Nowadays, sable has become an everyday fur. Nevertheless, sable’s nature is so beautiful, that it is almost the only fur, which is used by designers in its natural look.

Fox and polar fox

Fox and polar fox had become popular on the wave of development of Hollywood cinema. Americans copied fur cloth fashions from the screen. The President of Paramount Pictures was a furrier, and he proposed special conditions for his designers for using fur. Until 30th, fox and polar fox fur was used for decoration mainly. And in 1932 only, Marlene Dietrich appeared on the screen in a fox furcoat. Fox and polar fox were started to be bred in Scandinavia, in the very beginning of the 20th century. In the 30th, it was all the range to wear several fox fells, fastened together with paws and muzzles made of papier-mache. In the 40th, pin-up girls wore fox furcoats, and in 50th , - Marilyn Monroe and Elisabeth Taylor. In 1971, Yves Saint Laurent showed fox coats dyed into bright, unnatural colors; this collection shocked the older generation, and entered fashion history as a scandalous one. In the 90th, silver fox was remembered. Rene Russo’s image wearing silver fox pelerine collar by Celine (collection of 1998-1999) in Thomas Crown’s movie was replicated by magazines. And Celine’s designer Michael Cores continued this theme on the next season. He added silver fox to the graphical black-and-white models and created an image of a woman “hated by everyone”. Fox and polar fox were shown in London by Alexander McQueen, Tristan Webber, and in Paris - by Yohji Yamamoto, Yves Saint Laurent, and in Milan – by Prada, Armani, Trussardi.

Astrakhan

Astrakhan became popular in the end of the XIX century. It was widely used for collars and cuffs of coats, as well as for caps and hats. There exist plenty of names for this fur: astrakhan, karakul, lamb, broadtail. They depend on the fur origin and the way of currying. In the end of the 20th century, child’s furcoats were sawn out of astrakhan. They were decorated with tape and smart buttons embroidery. Every little girl dreamt of a white astrakhan furcoat and muff. In the 1910th, fashion coats of oval form with fluffy collars were made of astrakhan. Suchlike things had rather reasonable price. But its real popularity astrakhan had reached in the military 40th, when there were no special choice what to wear. In the 80th, classical long furcoats, poncho and jackets were started to be sawn out if it. And in the end of 90th, in the Ralph Lauren’s collection, dedicated to Russia, the astrakhan kubanka hats and hussar hats decorated with lace appeared. Colored broadtail handbags by Channel and pink slippers by Dolce & Gabbana had become the hit of the winter 1998-1999. That’s why, last season, Ford had proposed for Gucci the finest tops out of walnut and olive colored broadtail. And this winter, broadtail of all colors could be seen on the podium.

Rabbit

During last years, being one of the most available kinds of fur, rabbit gains popularity in the world of fashion again. It was first appreciated during the years of the World War II. Because of lack of money, furriers started working with cheap raw materials. Rabbit often served for imitating of expensive kind of fur. Nowadays, it is shorn and painted in such a way, that it looks like velvet, silk, velour, but not like fur. Today, it become a stylish tendency, but than, in 1991, it was a real sensation. In modern collections, the leopard-colored rabbit blazers and jackets, decorated with expensive embroidery can be met. In Roberto Cavalli’s collection there appeared the poncho out of shorn rabbit, bordered with fox. An Australian rabbit’s fur, which, by its structure and color, reminds an extremely expensive chinchilla, is especially popular.

Sheepskin

Sheepskin was always one of the most available kinds of fur. Even in the 19th century, in Russian villages, long inside-fur tanned furcoats and jackets were sawn. That’s what we call sheepskin coats now. Sheepskin coats came into European fashion after the World War II, and in the 50th, in the USSR, sheepskin was used for uniform. On the wave of hippie fashion, Afghan embroidered sheepskin coats, bordered with Mongolian llama fur, became popular. Before the 80th, sheepskin coats were usual, comfortable and inexpensive cloth. In 1994, because of return of fashion of 70th, designers turned their attention to sheepskin. A golden sheepskin coat with white fur, in which Janet Jackson acted in her clip Scream, had become a hit. Modern articles of sheepskin and tanned leather do not remind cowboy Marlboro’s jackets. In the last season, Carl Lagerfeld in the Channel collection offered dresses out of sheepskin of the finest dressing. This season, Alexander McQueen in his own collection has shown suites out of sheepskin, and Emanuel Ungaro’s collection has reflected style of the 70th in the finest sheepskin coats of all colors of rainbow with untreated edges. In Kenzo’s collection, there appeared an ensemble out of tanned leather – a coat and skirt with blouse. Even London, which used to treat fur carefully, represented bright coats, assembled of small pieces of sheepskin in Tristan Webber’s collection; and in Milan, everyone remembered gold-covered sheepskin coat by Iceberg and tanned handbags.