Number 3

A dualism that doesn’t exist

Vegan marketing is coming to the four wheel industry too: the goal is to absorb electric cars into its idea of sustainability. But the market is far more complex than propaganda

It belongs here

All those that believe that the new auto market, the one of hybrid and electric cars, is leather free, is largely mistaken. Green and synthetic aren’t synonyms, warn tanners. While regardless of what is said by polemicists, leather’s sustainability is a fact

4 x 4

The boundary is quite fleeting. In certain cases, it doesn’t even exist anymore. For cars, fashion and accessories the word of order is contamination. And these examples tell it In a particularly significant way

The (fundamental) importance of a nuance

It’s “the type of thing that makes a vehicle different”. What this “thing” is and why it has this type of power, is explained by somebody that knows a lot about car interiors (as James Bond can confirm)

WORLD LEATHER CONGRESS | Leather in everyday life

A material, an industry, a cultural expression. Leather celebrates its magnificent everyday dimension in New York (a location with significance) and looks forward to the future. Welcome to the fourth edition of the tanners’ world congress

UPHOLSTERY GEOGRAPHY | 80 billion worth of good reasons

How much is produced and where. What market and preference trends are present. around the world of upholstery, in collaboration with CSIL

LEATHER DESIGN WEEK | Direct object

Luxury brands and tanneries. Upholstery and furnishing accessories. Footwear and leather goods. The Milan Design Week, held from April 9 to 14, in its frenetic multiplication of events and exhibition spaces that, from Fieramilano Rho, has invaded the whole city, has placed, perhaps more than ever, leather in the role of privileged “object” of the action of an infinite number of players. Which have made it the tool for enhancing their creative choices. In these pages (before going into a consideration in terms of meaning) we propose a selected and undoubtedly amazing gallery of very exclusive, extremely interesting projects

LEATHER DESIGN WEEK | Explicit subject

“Leather returns to dress the house with its own personality”. And it does it differently, in a new way, maybe more complicated, but able to communicate to the great public with A renewed adaptability and a flexible modernity. The confirmation comes from the last, oceanic salone/fuorisalone

THE BOTTEGA VENETA CASE | The moment of truth

A brand that “still has a lot of potential to be used in terms of its offer” and that, from the next winter collections, should show the first Results of its relaunch. Bottega Veneta in the analysis of Flavio Cereda (Jefferies) and Mario Ortelli (Ortelli & Co)

PORTUGUESE LEATHER | Waiting for a better shoe market

Potuguese tanning grew exponentially from 2010, but in 2017 it stopped. The segment finds footwear to be its top client, but the rise of sneakers, along with alternative materials and relocations, make the cycle negative

LEATHER IN THE NEAR EAST | Jordanian horizons

Amman’s tanning segment has great potential: the availability of raw material. The sector is lively and hungry for more. But in order to use its full potential it still has a long way to go

LEATHER IN THE NEAR EAST | Hebron’s leather

The double-edged relationship with Israel: good for business but limiting due to bureaucracy. Turkish and Chinese competition. What the Palestinian chain needs. And what could live without

REVVED UP LIVESTOCK SEGMENT | Meat consumption train

Meat consumption in Africa is destined to increase. But production of bovine and ovine livestock is, for the most part, small and not structured, unable to keep up with the trend. This is the part of the market that South Africa wants to cover

CULTURE CLUB | La Cape de Saint Junien + The Exhibition + Things to know + The word

INNOVATION | 23.37 billion USD + 6.5 billion USD

RAW SIGNS | Going back to the past