They call it “mannish” (although “less feminine” is perhaps apt too), – the term most used to describe London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017’s main trend – reflecting how the unification of the men’s and women’s catwalks, introduced by Burberry (and others too), has already made its mark on the style profile. Versus Versace is offering […]
At the last edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo, the presence of a professional tattoo artist at the stand of Oliver Sweeney, intent on producing his “works” in real time on the uppers of shoes and ankle boots made the headlines. The same idea is now proposed by Tod’s which, to celebrate the re-opening of its […]
Enthusiasm, proposals and a desire to work for the future of the Italian tanning industry. Yesterday on the eve of Lineapelle, in Fieramilano Rho, the Gruppo Giovani UNIC (Italian Tanner’s Association Young People’s Group) met to relaunch its identity with new energy. Proposals, active dialogue and enthusiasm, summed up perfectly by Francesca Signorini (Victoria): “This […]
The newsletter you are reading is the Lineapelle Special Edition of the Daily News report created and promoted by laconceria.it, the reference web portal for the Italian leather industry. It is only published and sent in this format during the three days of the exhibition, from 20 to 22 September. However, if you have found […]
Lineapelle begins with a record announced several times in recent months and which, just a few hours before the stands open, has been conclusively updated. From tomorrow, Tuesday 20 September to Thursday 22, there will be 1241 exhibitors at Fieramilano Rho to present the Autumn/Winter 2017/2018 collections. In percentage terms: 6% more compared to the […]
The luxury crisis has not spared Tod’s, which announces: “To improve the group’s accounts, there is only one strategy: focusing on the quality of the leather.” The group, led by the Della Valle family, closed the first half of 2016 with revenues down 3.4% to €497.6 million. At constant exchange rates (€493.2 million) the drop […]
The Mastrotto Group from Arzignano announced its 2015 financial statements and the numbers show off a situation that is much more than bright. At consolidated level, the Group recorded an increase in sales in 2014 of 10%, amounting to €42 million, reaching a total of €462 million, while net income for 2015 surpassed €25 million, […]
China’s economy is changing, and with it the strategies of the Chinese players. Kuka Home, the furniture and upholstery group with headquarters in Hong Kong (2500 single-brand stores, present in 120 countries) that also produces leather sofas (purchased in Europe and tanned at home, we can read on the company website), has signed an agreement […]
Organisers interpret it as a positive sign: in Italy we are witnessing a recovery (albeit still modest) in domestic consumption. Of the 10,000 buyers that flocked to the stands at Mipel, the leather goods fair that closed its doors yesterday after four days of activity, the slight prevalence of Italian visitors was apparent. “The exhibitors […]
The Brazilian leather industry is reeling after the news, published by Reuters, that the brothers Wesley and Joesley Batista, CEO and president of the meat/tanning giant JBS, have been banned from running their business by judge Vallisney De Souza Oliveira from the Justiça Federal de Brasília, as part of an investigation called Operação Greenfield and […]
Leather takes to the cinema and does so in great style. In the utmost style, actually. Last night, in collaboration with the specialist magazine Ciak, the short fashion movie Niente Per Caso, produced by the Consorzio Vero Cuoio Italiano to promote the Cuoio di Toscana brand, was officially presented to the public at large. Where? […]
A well-known leather goods brand in Germany has decided to flirt with the vegan world by producing a bag in synthetic material. Unfortunately the tag that accompanies the article, sold in some of the nation’s leading department stores, bears the following message: “I’m genuinely leather-free”. And that’s not all: the description continues, boasting the fact […]
Following the 2011 edition in Rio De Janeiro and the Milan edition last year, the World Leather Congress is back with a new stage, this time in China. On 29 August, Shanghai’s Pullman Hotel will host the debate “The Leather Revolution”, focusing on the profound changes that the leather sector will face over the next […]
The source is the Italian backbone of the fashionnetwork.com website. And the news is such to create a stir in a sector like leather goods, despite being still just a “rumour”. So here’s the “bombshell”: Piquadro is apparently about to buy The Bridge, the Tuscan leather goods brand founded by Il Ponte Pelletteria in Scandicci […]
Now that the holidays are over, in September, the companies in the tanning industry are set to experience an extremely busy month, packed with exhibitions. Here are some of the most important dates, some of which are currently ongoing, or have already ended: Sapica León, 30 August–2 September; All China Leather Exhibition Shanghai, 31 August–2 […]
One warm Sunday this August, Hicham BenMbarek, an artisan with Moroccan roots received a visit from a special tourist in his shop in Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence: Sheik Hamed Bin Khalifa Al Thani (pictured in the shop in Florence). The emir, whose family now owns half of Italy, or rather the Valentino maison […]
Technically it had expired on May 30. Following the umpteenth six-monthly extension, a mechanism that has been repeating itself since the Russian government decided to close its frontiers to exports of wet-blue. Officially, it was renewed on 27 July, with retroactive effect from 18 July, and is valid until 18 January 2017. The reason? Moscow […]
A lucky shoe from 300 years ago has been found inside the University of Cambridge. During restoration work on a room in the British university, a leather shoe was found, the left shoe of a pair in what today would be size 39. Nothing strange there. But the curiosity of the researchers was aroused by […]
Expectations met and new market feedback at Lineapelle New York, which took place on 19 and 20 July at the Metropolitan Pavilion. The 100 exhibitors present (+20% compared to the previous edition) exchanged views on a fundamental market for the Italian leather industry: +13% national tanned leather exports to Washington in the first quarter of […]
In the end, Albert Einstein’s leather jacket has “gone home”. The auction organised by Christie’s was in fact won by the brand that tailored it 80 years ago: Levi Strauss. Held in London on 14 July, the auction closed with an offer of £110,500 after a long series of ascending bids. Tracey Park, historian of […]
