Number 5

THE FACES OF THE YEAR | 6 characters in search of 2019

Six faces, six characters to tell a difficult, complex, worrying year. 2019. You will find them in the following pages

MARKET’S TRAFFICLIGHT | Stop and go

Green lights, red lights the leather marketplace is affected by contrasting pushes: sometimes going in the same directions, sometimes opposite. Lineapelle 97 (Milan, October 2-4) was the time to collect the feelings and opinions live from tanners

EXOTIC CHOC | Tanneries’ truth

Chanel say goodbye to crocodile and reptiles, leather responds. “It is not the right vision of sustainability”, it is an economic choice: it will not last”

WHAT WILL BE REMEMBERED ABOUT 2020? | Coach research

Liz Alessi, vice president with proxy for materials development, defines the meaning of leather today, in a market that is attentive to process and performance, as far as fashion is concerned

FOOTWEAR GEOGRAPHY | Even more

The number, while not “mind-blowing” surely is surprising. Based on data contained in the World Footwear Yearbook, published by Portuguese Association APICCAPS (Associação Portuguesa Ind. Calçado Componentes Artigos Pele Sucedaneos), the global footwear industry produced somewhere around 24.2 billion pairs of shoes during the year 2018.

GLOBAL FOOTWEAR | Western syndrome

Of course, it is still producing a lot, but beijing is no longer the paradise it once was for footwear manufacturers. And the reasons, in one way, are a paradox

EDITORIAL | Googlo ergo sum (vegan)

CULTURE CLUB | The art of microcarving + Realism