Lineapelle95 hosts a space dedicated to art. Such space is going to welcome the vision of an artist and his ability to read, experience and bring back onto his canvas the peculiar identity of places from which Tuscan leather comes. Painter Riccardo Luchini presents his Tanneries exhibition, set up during Lineapelle95 three-day event at the […]
A mirror Cube turns internally, on one side, into a beehive whose “cells” are the pattern of a wall covered with a patchwork of hides, from which a top quality selected collection of leather comes out. On the other side, visitors can watch a video, on a screen, showing some young tanners. They are committed […]
Stazione Sperimentale per l’Industria delle Pelli e delle Materie Concianti (the Italian Leather Research Institute) keeps promoting its revamp plan, while presenting a rich agenda of works and projects currently underway. SSIP participate again in Lineapelle95 (with their own stand, located at hall 11): their technicians and researchers are consistently committed to presenting “a provision […]
It is not just market. It is not just style. It is not just innovation. Global leadership entails responsibility: Lineapelle95 is therefore meant to be a special platform to discuss topical and current issues strictly related to the leather industry. Tomorrow, at Fieramilano Rho, they will spotlight two topics in particular. Both events will take […]
In the first six months of the year 2018 overall manufacturing volumes of the Italian leather industry have been increasing by 4,6%, whereas sales have dropped, in terms of revenues, by 3,8%. In the same period, exports have gone up, in terms of volumes, by 12,1%, though they declined by 4% in terms of value, […]
Lineapelle 95th edition kicks off at Fieramilano Rho (25-27 September) after the closing, about a week ago, of the finished products fairs, namely Micam and Mipel. Likewise, some fashion events, such as TheOneMilano, White and Super, have just (24 hours ago) said goodbye to their visitors. Conversely, the fashion week bustling shows are still underway. […]
PRODUCTS AND STYLES. THE MARKETPLACE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS. INNOVATION AND ITS LIMITS. LINEAPELLE (SEPTEMBER 25TH TO 27TH), MICAM AND MIPEL (SEPTEMBER 16TH TO 19TH) BRING TOGETHER IN MILAN THE GLOBAL OPERATORS OF THE LEATHER CHAIN, AND DRAW THE LUXURY INDUSTRY OF TOMORROW
“Three days of business, style and innovation. Three days of the future”. Lineapelle 95th edition, the global business experience in the fashion & luxury industry supply, is due to kick off tomorrow in Milan (it will go on until Thursday 27 September), in the area located at Fieramilano Rho. More than ever, Lineapelle is about […]
We had few doubts about Karl Lagerfeld’s passion for leather and furs (he latest gave further evidence about it while recently designing a capsule collection for young model Kaia Gerber). Yet yesterday the fashion designer made some more announcements on the topic that are by all means crystal clear: “I do not like these vegans: […]
Let’s have a look at a few figures about Micam and Mipel, which concluded yesterday. Let’s begin with footwear. 45,424 visitors, of whom 27,272 coming from foreign countries and 18,152 from Italy, showed up at Micam 86th edition. Attendance of visitors has been in line with September 2017 edition, and number has gone up, +2,7%, […]
The organization is bound to support a synergy between tanneries, business companies, research and training centres, including all stakeholders, actively playing in the area, in order to create a profitable collaboration and carry out common projects and actions. At Igualada, Spain, they have opened the Barcelona Leather Cluster, an association of about 40 enterprises, such […]
It is official now: Uttar Pradesh government, supported by the Indian court of Environmental Crimes (NGT), has ordered the closure of the leather tanning district, located in Kanpur-Unnao, for a three-month period. Such measure, which has entered into force since last December, though they feared it even before summer, will actually stop 264 tanneries, placed […]
In Kenya they are about to open a new tannery. The government of Narok county, placed in the mid-west of the country, is going to invest 1,2 billion shillings (around 10 million euros) to build up a new tannery to prevent the wastefulness of hides and skins coming from Nyandarua, Narok and Kajiado areas, which […]
An ex-Montblanc as a ceo, and a good performance in the first 5 months. Richemont has promoted from the current position as coo effective immediate, Jerôme Lambert, in the position of ceo of the Swiss luxury multinational. The nominee is a jump in the past: Johann Rupert, president of the group, had decided about a […]
A mirror Cube that turns from one side into a beehive and the other into a screen. In the first case the “cells” form a texture to a wall covered with a patchwork of leathers from which emerges (always following the geometry of the hive) a selected review of very high quality leathers, which can […]
More connected, more transparent. ZDHC will present on Septermber 26th, in Fieramilano Rho, to Lineapelle, “the first global databde for chemicals safety”, during an event held in the LEM conference room (Ponte dei Mari – side pavilion 22). ZDHC group, aka the project “Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals” is progressively enlarging the digital plafrom launched […]
To make clear what leather is and, above all, to distinguish what it is not in the traditional sense of the term. It is the priority that places GLCC Global Leather Coordination Committee, representative that includes ICT (International Council of Tanners), IULTCS (the abbreviation that unites leather chemists) and ICHSALTA (the association of traders), in […]
It is a slow 2018 for the US leather industry, very slow: in the first 7 months of the year bovine leather exports fell 2% in volume (yearly base), meaning 14 million units, and by 21% in value (about 700,000 USD). Wet blue leather also lost 20% in volume (3.6 million units) and 13% in […]
Premise (taken from the introduction to the event that this news is about: “Companies that have been wanting to commercialize a product as ‘green’ have found themselves stuck with methods, initiatives, and tools that were often partisan, inefficient and non-transparent. This situation has brought confusion among both operators and customers, becoming an obstacle for the […]
Milano is back to being ‘extra-large’ for fashion week Milano (planned for September 18th through 24th). The second edition of Milano XL is an event that enlarges the meaning of the runways (also timing wise, since it goes from September 12th to the 24th), it goes into the city, it has as subtitle an Italian […]
