The Italian tanning industry mourns the loss of one of its founding figures—an entrepreneur who helped shape an industry that became a global leader. At the age of 84, Bruno Mastrotto has passed away. A key figure in Veneto’s tanning district, he played a central role, from the mid-1950s onward, in the creation and growth […]
Investors reacted well to new creatives making their debuts, and several luxury brands, and stocks in the sector rose on the stock market in a gray session. Kering’s shares rose to their highest level in nearly 15 months after Morgan Stanley listed them as a top pick among European luxury stocks, while UBS is rewarding […]
In the beating heart of French fashion, the Paris Fashion Week weekend (running until 6 October) delivered a string of runway shows that looked less like seasonal collections and more like manifestos. Four houses, four visions: Valentino challenges the present, Balenciaga explores the body, Hermès returns to its roots, and McQueen seeks the straight path....
Some collections are more eagerly awaited than others. And within fashion, certain moments are more highly anticipated than most. One of these came with Chanel, which yesterday, closing Paris Fashion Week, delivered the sense of an occasion destined to be remembered. For the first time we were able to witness what the Chanel universe might...
From Paris to Milan, via London and New York, fashion month has closed with a series of highs and lows that have reshaped the industry’s outlook. The emphasis, more often than not, was on product over narrative. Or rather, on a narrative built through leather. This season, leather dominated the catwalks, marking some of the […]
The best of the Japanese tanning tradition was present at Lineapelle. As part of the exhibition event (Sept. 23-25 at Fieramilano Rho), the top-end leather from Japan was present, namely a selection of exhibiting companies from Tokyo Leather Fair, an event celebrating its 110th edition this year. A sort of coupling moment that gathered in...
“Ecco Leather (Dongen) is conducting a review of the future role of the site within the Ecco group”. There are doubts about the future of the Danish group’s Dutch tannery, hit by a vast fire on the night of Sunday, May 4 to Monday, May 5, 2025. Fortunately, the leather finishing plant had remained intact, […]
Crispi goes against the tide: it produces in Italy and sells in the U.S., focusing on quality rather than price, it invests and diversifies to grow. Alessandro Marcolin founded Crispi as a mountain footwear workshop in 1975, and today the company with headquarters in Maser (Treviso) is 50 years old and in excellent health. It...
Two growth trajectories have crossed paths and strengthened each other. One is that of Police, the lifestyle brand of the De Rigo group, which has chosen lightweight leather with a denim effect for its first summer collection. The other is that of Two Brothers (2Brothers), which manages the global licensing, production and distribution of the...
“When I see one of my clients buying a Chinese machine, that will be the signal that it’s time for me to close the company”. That is the concern voiced by Cristiano Paccagnella, general manager of Omac and vice-president of Assomac, who in our interview outlines the challenging state of the market for machinery serving...
There is one place where we never, ever expected to find remnants of leather: in a bearded vulture nest. but some researchers have found a relic: espadrilles. This gives us further proof how the properties and durability of leather aren’t only appreciated by humans. The things this shoe must have seen. Seven centuries of mystery […]
After decades of creative direction oscillating between brilliance and bewilderment, Dior is once again questioning its future. And it does so with Jonathan Anderson, who yesterday unveiled his first womenswear collection for the French maison. A debut laden with expectation—perhaps the most eagerly anticipated of the season—following his menswear launch last June. But it is...
For La Moda Italiana@Almaty, the glass is half full. The latest edition of the fair (1–3 October) recorded a record turnout: 86 companies and more than 100 brands. Italian entrepreneurs returned home without broad smiles, but on the whole reasonably satisfied—particularly given the modest expectations at the outset. The weight of the Kazakh market, and...
Reacting to the impact of a prolonged and still super-challenging crisis, with a test of profound resilience and synergy, Lineapelle closes its 106th edition with “an inevitable, but expected decline” in attendance numbers. That being said, it brought more than 21,000 operators to the fair, representing more than 7,000 companies, and at the same time, […]
From 23 to 27 September, in the heart of Milan, the eighth edition of Lineapelle Designers Edition transformed Piazza Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Spazio Lineapelle into an urban stage devoted to creativity. Not merely a runway, but a crucible of ideas where leather became language, substance and vision. Seventeen international designers and brands animated […]
Bodies, memory and matter. On the calendar of the Camera Nazionale della Moda, three emerging designers bring to the runway a profound reflection on the body, time and transformation. Francesco Murano, Galib Gassanoff of the brand Institution, and Giuseppe Buccinnà present collections that weave together aesthetic research and conceptual tension. Three perspectives, one partner: Lineapelle...
Lineapelle is the stage where the new generation of designers and stylists in training can showcase their talent and put themselves to the test, supported by the strategic contribution of Italian tanneries supplying materials. From 23 to 25 September, Pavilion 5 of Fieramilano Rho hosted the very best in global fashion education: schools of fashion...
A wholly Tuscan alliance has brought together the strength of five tanneries. Itan Group has been established, comprising five companies from the Leather District. Which ones? La Scarpa (Ponte a Egola, San Miniato), specialised in vegetable-tanned crust leather; Montana (Ponte a Egola), known for its belt leathers; Naturaleather (Ponte a Egola), producer of Tuscan vacchetta;...
Its name recalls the English word milestone, but in fact it is an acronym: Museum of Interactive Leather Experience. MILE is the brand-new cultural center dedicated to tanning, inaugurated on Saturday, September 27 in Arzignano, in front of a large audience and with the participation of the Minister for Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo...
The second Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation organized by FAO brought together key players in the sector from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, with the goal to accelerate change toward more sustainable livestock systems. Also among the protagonists were ICT and UNIC – Italian Tanneries, spokesmen (alongside Cotance and the LHCA – Leather and...
