United States – a healthy market for footwear? No, imports fell in the first six months of the year. Japan in crisis? No, shoe purchases from abroad increased in the first half of the year. Unstoppable China? No, footwear exports between January and June collapsed. Let’s start with the USA, responsible for 20.8% of world […]
Visitor numbers up at CHIC Shanghai, while in Germany there are those thinking about Africa and shoes. The Chinese event (837 labels on show, from 21 countries and with around 50 Italian fashion companies) closed its doors with a significant increase in visitors (+15% compared to last year’s edition), reaching 65,700. For footwear, the March […]
Sorting out the protocols and existing guidelines and those already being applied by the big leather brands. Selecting the best of all of these in every field and developing new ones in those areas where they don’t exist. Drawing up a document that sets out the agreement between brands and suppliers on issues involving chemicals […]
Bob Dylan’s grandfather was a shoe manufacturer, and Bob contributed (perhaps unknowingly) to launching the Clarks brand and has written songs about shoes. The new Nobel Literature laureate’s paternal grandfather, Zigman Zimmerman, lived in Odessa in Ukraine, where he had a large shoe factory. He fled to the USA as a victim of the 1905 […]
The collaboration between Maserati and the Ermenegildo Zegna brand is continuing and becoming stronger. After the capsule collection of leather clothing and accessories produced exactly a year ago, the two luxury brands are now presenting “Zegna-Maserati SS 2017” in parallel with the arrival of the Suv Levante in the United Kingdom. The new collection, available […]
A two-year (renewable) contract and gross salary of 120,000 euros with additional bonus, for someone who is willing to move to Naples (where the institute is based) and above all, who has great expertise in the sector and a clear industrial plan in mind. The Stazione Sperimentale per l’Industria delle Pelli e delle Materie Concianti […]
In Paris, where fashion week is closing today, a great focus on bags and shoes. And ample space for leather. Alexander McQueen has proposed waterproof boots and boots decorated with metal reinforcements. Loewe has used leather for bags (orange or striped maxi shopping bags), shoes, cloaks and accessories: a calla lily in handmade calfskin presented […]
In 2015, EU customs intercepted 41 million fake products, up 15% on the previous year. The economic activities most damaged by the assault of counterfeit products are, together with those for body care and eyewear, those in the fashion industry. Counterfeit footwear worth €58 million, clothing products worth €48 million, bags worth €57 million and […]
GDS reverses its steps. Next year the Düsseldorf fair board will move its July event to September, following the group of leather-area shows that, after pushing hard for earlier dates, is now back-pedaling. Precise days have not, however, been announced. For GDS the risk of remaining slated for July was very high since the past […]
Clogs and slippers. Thick soles and pointed toes. More than a fashion trend, originality starred on the runway in Milan Fashion Week, starting with Gucci’s super-wedgies and going on to Cavalli’s (Tyrolean-style) sabots and the (particularly imaginative) clogs from D&G. Tons of trim and accessories: feathers, furs, colored laces. Example: Diesel Black Gold high-rise boots […]
Little brands grow. From Great Britain comes the debut of Cameron Charles London, a brand of leather jackets for men that are made in the Empoli area with hides tanned in Tuscany and, in part, Turkey. Management stated that it had tried to work exclusively with British companies but couldn’t find manufacturers “on a par […]
“The Tod’s collection shows how anything can be made with leather”. And leather was the material of choice to celebrate Tod’s’ timeless icons: bikers, pea coats, jackets and T-shirts, mini-dresses and shirts, with saddler stitching and fringe, all made strictly with premium leathers. Not to mention bags and footwear. The collection was unsigned but designed […]
She wore them at public events as early as 2004, when she was not yet part of the British royal family. She’s worn them for ten years and even just recently on a trip to Bhutan with her husband, Prince William. For more than a decade Kate Middleton has been practically married to a pair […]
From cars to leather, from seats to shoes. Walter De’ Silva, legendary head of design for the Volkswagen group (but he also designed the Alfa Romeo 156) has created a collection of women’s evening shoes, all black and with 10.5-cm high heels. For it he drew on materials also used in auto-making: steel and light […]
Lineapelle drives hard on the “+” sign. In a trend that clearly goes against the flow of the current market situation, the most important international event in the leather sector yesterday closed the doors on the Autumn/Winter 2017/18 edition, racking up 9% more visitors (21,184) than in September 2015, with a significant increase in foreign […]
Double-digit growth for the turnout of Spaniards, Chinese and Koreans. The influx of buyers from France, the US and Japan shows a significant increase. The presence of Greeks, Czechs and Ukrainians doubles or triples. A slowdown, however, is noted in visitors coming from Russia, Turkey and Hong Kong, due to the well-known economic or commercial […]
Hand-buffered, hand-crumpled and hand-painted, the leathers proposed in this edition of Lineapelle increasingly offer works of fine craftsmanship, conveying the added value and uniqueness that distinguish the Italian product from the production of the rest of the world. Italian tanneries are proposing leathers produced with a careful eye on detail, often hand-crafted to produce materials […]
Milan Fashion Week draws to a close with the great labels relaunching their style, expressing renewed creativity and confirming their excellence. And while we are talking about excellence, we cannot fail to mention leather as a reference material. Whether we look at the ultra-colourful drawings and prints from Moschino (on jackets, shoes and clutch bags) […]
After inaugurating a store in Nice, the Furla group is set to open a new boutique in Paris, on Rue St. Honoré 414, while the historic store at number 281 on the same street will be transformed into a pop-up store dedicated to men, the first in Europe. Alberto Camerlengo, general director of the brand […]
For its pursuit of quality, for the breadth of its offering, or for logistical reasons, Lineapelle attracts tanners from all over the world, and is a favourite of designers, buyers and global product managers too: here they come together, bringing input from all sectors. Sofie D’Hoore is a total look Belgian brand which produces women’s […]
