After nearly a month of forced closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, today Gucci, Brunello Cucinelli and Poltrona Frau have resumed their activities. The first two brands have reopened the Style and Prototype departments. Action deemed “preparatory to the global reopening of production”. Poltrona Frau, on the other hand, has reactivated a small production area […]
In 2020 first quarter, LVMH turnover went down by 15% as earnings amounted to 10.6 billion euros. Results turned out to be better than estimates issued by Bloomberg, which expected revenues to decrease by 17.8%. “The Group proves rather resilient while facing such worldwide challenge – commented Bernard Arnault –. Over a span of weeks, […]
From March to May. From May till June. They hope that they will not be compelled to put off the exhibition again or, considering what they had to do with regard to many other events, cancel it definitely. They have postponed, one more time, Obuv Moscow. They had formerly scheduled the Russian footwear fair on […]
The pandemic, caused by Coronavirus outbreak, is about to stop the (long-lasting) positive trend livestock and farming industry had been enjoying. According to current estimates, provided by USDA (the United States Department of Agriculture), Covid-19 is due to slow down, throughout 2020, the red meat worldwide market: by the end of the year, the […]
Milk, butter and even leather now. Billy Tannery have just taken a new business partner. As reported by media, Delamere Dairy, a British company that actively specializes in manufacturing goat milk and dairy products, have recently invested in the small tannery, founded in Northampton, in 2016. Billy Tannery are currently up to tanning Cabrito-breed goatskins: […]
A brand is able to give its customers the real emotions one can feel upon a grassy baseball diamond. We are talking about Mack Provisions, which recycle baseball leather gloves. When he decided to set his business, KC Mack founded his own company aiming to recycle an American iconic object: baseball leather gloves. He gets […]
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said so during the press conference held on April 10th: the lockdown could end before May 4th for some sectors. All the main Italian newspapers mentioned, during the last few days, that the Government can decide to open the fashion industry before the end of the month, given its strategic […]
Hermès, the return to normal continues. In China, the reopening of stores continues. In France, a factory that temporarily made masks, reopens. It has now gone back to producing leather accessories. Reopens a factory in France The production of Hermès leather gloves and accessories is concentrated in New Aquitaine. Around 630 people are employed in […]
After the postponements, came the cancellation of the fair. APLF calls off the 2020 edition and postpones the appointment to 2021. After two date shifts in the spring, the Coronavirus pandemic now forces the Hong Kong fair to stop. APLF calls off the 2020 edition As early as February, we said, APLF organisers announced a […]
The Fashion Studio in via Brisa 3, alas, is in lockdown. But this does not slow down the hunger for knowledge of leather and, above all, the desire to satisfy it. Lineapelle’s educational offer for brands and schools doesn’t stop. Rather, in compliance with the precautionary measures necessary to combat the spread of Coronavirus, it […]
The equation is (sadly) simple: when the demand for meat is high and that for finished leather is low, raw hides for the tanning segment don’t end up in tanneries. The US chain is being blocked by the Coronavirus. Stephen Sothmann, CEO of LHCA (Leather & Hide Council of America), believes this to have a...
We know, by writing about them we play their game. We should respond with silence. But you need to know your opponent to be able to beat him, says the adage. So it is good to focus on PETA‘s opportunism. The vegan-chic association dot not tolerates that the Coronavirus epidemic overshadows its battles. Instead, it […]
Here is the news: SMCP’s brands said no to exotic leather. The French edition of Fashion Network used the expression “give up” exotic leather. Good (not great). But the question is different: Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot, the brands in question, have never really said yes to crocodile, lizard and reptiles. “No to exotic leather” […]
Tanning wants to restart, even during the Coronavirus storm. There is a reciprocal need: Pakistan needs its tanneries to re-open to avoid a deeper crisis. Pakistan Tanners Association’s (PTA) president for the western area, Sheikh Fazlur Rehman. On April 2nd, Fazlur Rehman, asked authorities to allow tanneries to open back up. Slaughterhouses are accumulating raw […]
White, because everything is to be thought, build, written. All to be discovered in its hypothetical entrepreneurial and productive, personal and social, psychological and behavioural evolutions. Everything is to be understood in the way in which, inevitably and forcibly, we will be forced to change. We asked a group of protagonists in the leather industry to imagine how.
Sometimes they come back. Great Britain Connolly’s leather is reborn: a tannery that made a lot of leather in the 1900s (in the true sense of the word), but that was then lost. Now it starts from its history. And from its DNA
In a letter to the Italian Government, Gianni Russo, president of UNIC – Italian Tanneries, looks forward for “a possible decision to progressively restart economic activities, not specifically included in the list of the essential ones, could involve in the first place functional industries such as the tanning industry“. The premise “Italian leather ranks first […]
Open and operational. The Coronavirus epidemic in Portugal didn’t cause the forced shutdown of tanning-related industrial activities. But Portuguese tanners fear a domino effect, because the paralysis of the international chain will likely end up impacting local ones. Nuno Carvalho, president of APIC (national tanners’ association) and CEO of Carvalhos group, states: “our companies are...
Good news from Chinese tanneries: leather has survived CRV. In response to LeatherMag’s questions, China Leather Industry Association (CLIA) president Li Yuzhong explains that the leather processing industry has returned to 90% of its production capacity. In short, the supply chain is recovering quickly after the so-called lockdown. The measures to contain the spread bring […]
