A complex economic moment. Very complex. An eagerly awaited trade fair event. Highly anticipated. After the excellent London edition, held last Tuesday (23 February) yesterday in Manhattan Lineapelle New York opened the dances. Two days of exhibition (Wednesday 31 January and Thursday 1 February) with several objectives. First: to bring to the USA the first taste of the trends for the 2025 summer season, the one promoted in the light of the Vuja De concept. Second: to sense what’s cooking in New York from a creative and commercial point of view. Third: to build the usual bridge with Milan where, from 20 to 22 February, the 103rd edition of Lineapelle will be staged.
What’s cooking in the USA
111 companies are opening their exhibition spaces at the Metropolitan Pavilion today. Of them, 50 are Italian, 61 come from the rest of the world. In terms of the main product profiles, 86 are tanneries and 9 textiles, 12 are accessories, 1 chemical and 3 services. Linapelle New York, as some exhibitors point out, is a useful event not only from a strictly commercial point of view. It is also necessary to understand more generally what’s the mood along the entire supply chain. A mood that, at the moment, seems rather stuffy, given the stand-by that surrounds the fashion and luxury industries’ suppliers. The liveliness of London last week bodes well for a good turnout at the fair. After all, when the market is at a standstill, what is needed is to gather new ideas, stimuli, suggestions. Lineapelle New York is the right place to find them.
Gloves as appetisers
If Lineapelle New York is the main course, Tuesday 30 January at the Institute of Italian Culture on Park Avenue served its antipasto. On the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to “The Glove School” (hosted in the same location), the workshop “The glove school” was held. The workshop was organised by SSIP (Stazione Sperimentale per l’Industria delle Pelli e delle Materie Concianti), Lineapelle and Unione Industriali di Napoli. With them, also “several Neapolitan companies active in the leather and glove industry”. The objective, explains SSIP: “To promote and to protect this ancient and noble art”. To do so, two master glove-makers have landed in New York: Alessandro Pellone and Francesco Ricciardiello. Their task: to let people touch and witness the phases of making a glove. With leather, of course.
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