Loro Piana opens new knitwear plant in Ghemme, Italy
Loro Piana, the Italian luxury house, has opened a knitwear complex of more than 86,000 square feet in Ghemme, in Italy's Piedmont region.
The house calls the site Loro Piana Ghemme. It is its first newly built manufacturing plant since the 1990s, WWD reported on 22 September 2026. Frédéric Arnault inaugurated the plant, according to Vogue.
The building brings most steps of fully fashioned knitwear under one roof. Fully fashioned means garments knitted to shape, rather than cut from cloth and sewn together. Loro Piana said the plant integrates the majority of those stages in a single site.
It knits to shape. It also keeps control. Loro Piana manages the majority of stages and steps of the knitwear process in-house, from yarn development through finishing.
At Ghemme, that work centres on fine animal fibres. The plant will develop yarns made from baby cashmere, vicuña, cashmere and ultra-fine merino wools. Those yarns include the fibres used for The Gift of Kings and Loro Piana Royal Lightness yarn.
What makes this stand out is the consolidation. Knitwear production is often split between spinners, knitters, dyers and finishers. Some steps are subcontracted, work passed to outside workshops. Here, the majority stays inside one company and one building.
Loro Piana describes Ghemme as a centre of knitwear excellence, in a company post. For shoppers, this means the jumper on the rail and the yarn laboratory are part of the same operation. Somebody spins it. Somebody links it. Somebody checks it before it ships.
