Here’s all you need to know about Lineapelle 92nd edition, day 2, scheduled tomorrow, Wed 22 February, at Fieramilano Rho, pavilions 9,11,13,15, 22, 24.
Opening hours and entrances: you may get in there through East, West and South Gates. Opening hours are 9am-6.30pm.
Trend Areas: in all of them (3) photos and videos are strictly forbidden (including smartphones). Samples exhibited, around 2.000, are about Summer 2018. The main Trend Area is placed at the entrance of Pavilion 13. The others are located at Pavilion 9 (aisle U) and 22 (aisle T).
Fashion Presentations: two presentations, held in Italian and English. The former will take place at 2.30pm, the latter will start at 4pm. Fashion Both of them, which will be conducted at the end of Pavilion 15, are being curated by Lineapelle’s Fashion Committee. Upon payment.
Trend Book: for sale either at Pavilion 13, at the Trend Area (aisles A and Z), or in the e-shop through lineapelle-fair.com portal.
How to get there: free shuttles are available from Milan Central Station and Linate/Malpensa airports: click here for timetables. Over 10.000 outdoor car parks are available (from P1, with Fast Lanes, to P5), plus two multistorey indoor car parks (PM1 and PM2), close to West Gate. Finding your bearings in the fair: by using Lineapelle app, of course. Download it on your smartphone (android and Apple) as you get access to your app stores. You will find there our catalogue, an interactive map, and information about schedules, transport and events. In all areas free Wi-Fi network is available. Events: Pavilion 9 will house two special outfittings. The former is about the exhibition of a number of leather works carried out in the Italian tannery secondary school workshops : over 1,100 of them took part in the sixth edition of “ Amici per la Pelle “ (“Leather best friends”), a national contest – “ Toy Tan” – based on toy theme. Works may be assessed either at the fair or, until tomorrow, on a special Facebook account. Prize-giving ceremony will take place at the Fieramilano Rho Auditorium, on Thu 23 February, at 11am. The latter is the The Perfect Tannery show, a fine collection of artistic photographs, taken by Stuart Franklin and Mark Powers (Magnum Agency), narrating tanneries in Arzignano. Engaging international young designers and drawing them to Lineapelle: “Craft the leather” and “Intreccincantiere” contests. Creativity spreads across Fieramilano Rho, enhanced though –at Lineapelle- by witty young designers, coming from all over the world, that take part in two international top quality contests. The former is “Craft the Leather”, on its fifth edition, organized by the Italian Vegetable Tanning Real Leather Group : a number of fashion designers, from 9 international fashion schools, face one another , after an internship in Tuscany studying vegetable tanning leather techniques, to create three innovative items. The latter is “Intreccincantiere”, promoted -for three years- by Domodossola Manufacturing along with Lineapelle and Gruppo Banco Popolare: 90 young fashion designers, coming from international art schools, are taking part in it. Aiming to create new items for the leather industry, home interiors, footwear, apparel and jewellery, thus using the “trademark” weaves of the company based in Villadossola (Verbania). For both contests works will be exhibited in a special stand during Lineapelle92: pavilion 9 for Craft the Leather, pavilion 24 (stand E23) for Intreccincantiere. Winners will be assigned a money scholarship to enable them to pursue with their fashion design training.
