Presenting the best accessories, designed with Valentino and Salvatore Ferragamo in a few training projects. Outlining a photograph tale of the exhibition three-day-event. Furthermore, developing a capsule collection composed of seven merchandising products. On October 2-4, Polimoda students will not be just guests, as they will be playing a leading role at Lineapelle97, the fashion […]
Leather according to the innovative look of young designers. It is from the collaboration between Monza-based company Motta Pelli and Istituto Marangoni in Milan that a creative project was born, involving students of the Master of Fashion Design Womenswear course. Students made clothes using leather from the tannery based in Brianza, committing themselves to enhancing […]
Design students from national and international academies will be (are) at Lineapelle97 to investigate EQ, the Emotional Quotient, and present the results of their educational and training programs with leather. Students from IUAV University (Venice), Istituto Marangoni and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan), as well as New Parsons School of Fashion (New York), […]
The analysis to detect any possible traces of chromium on leather, in compliance with ISO 17075 standard, may bring to false positive results. Their occurrence depends on several factors, such as determination process (colorimetric or chromatographic), extraction conditions (PH, dosing quantities, or, for example, matrix effect) and sampling methods. They are going to talk about […]
Leather and its process are intrinsically disruptive: because they are circular by definition. And to further highlight, add-value and (most importantly) tell the genetic factor of the “leather material”, the fair has created an ad-hoc area. It’s called The Leather (re)cyclying Exhibition and is an educational and narrational incubator focused on the circularity on the […]
An ante litteram influencer. One of those designers that have literally created fashion without turning into media phenomenon from social media. Today, Lineapelle )11:30 at the Fashion Theater of pavilion 13), meets and celebrates Japan’s stylist Kansai Yamamoto. Additionally, for the entire fair till Friday, Milan’s fair showcases one of the stylist’s last project, presented […]
The invitation picture, and its colourful slogan, immediately recall René Magritte and his surrealism. One can see a leather wallet, filmed from top, semi-circular shaped. The slogan is “This Is Not a Leather Wallet”. What are we talking about then? Please find the answer at the stand of Russo di Casandrino tannery, located at Lineapelle […]
The event promises to bring interest, as well as emotions. Veneto-based tannery Montebello, in collaboration with Lineapelle, is organizing the event. It will take place tonight. The inedita performance includes both theater and dancing, and was planned, built and interpreted to satisfy “the need to tell the uniqueness of leather’s essence via the use of […]
Emotions and instinct will be the key deciding factors behind chosen stylistic trends of the Winter 2020/21 collections. In fact, the trends identified by Lineapelle’s Fashion Committee will be developed on these key themes, and summarized with the acronym EQ: Emotion Quotient. What does EQ mean “Our emotional quotient is the measure unit for the […]
The first semester of 2019 was challenging for the fashion world’s suppliers’ segment. The tanning industry, in Italy and Europe, was forced bite the bullet: what weighs on the industry is “the global economy’s uncertain state – reads the Market Insights document prepared by Lineapelle’s Economic Service -, which seems to push some traditional clients’ […]
The objective is clear and is strategic one: to expand its action worldwide. It is a new operational dimension, the one that ICEC, the reference Certification Institute for the leather industry, is experimenting with. This is demonstrated by the latest agreements signed in the Iberian peninsula. Target: three “important productive, technical and associative realities”. One,two,three […]
Key words are clear a great deal. They are very meaningful, nearly solid. Now more than ever, perhaps, Lineapelle (whose forthcoming edition is going to be number 97) is about to kick off while providing very high-profile contents. It is no coincidence that all of them hint at a specific intention, that is, to move […]
They have achieved some goals, while aiming at further accomplishments: luxury may well strive to support sustainability. No need to rule out any materials deriving from animals, nor to give in before meaningless slogans, but rather pursuing a scientific method. Such is the firm opinion of Bernard Arnault, president of LVMH, who welcomed at his […]
In the fashion industry, augmenting production drives consequently specialized workers’ pay; likewise, salaries of operators handling the digital channel are rising as well. Conversely, managers’ wages are decreasing. How much fashion workers earn Matteo Agrifoglio, Central Italy manager, at Spring Professional, clarifies, while speaking to pmi.it, that wages earned by an assembly belt supervisor, who […]
Good news from leather goods. In the first six months of 2019, revenues coming from French tanning industry increased by 9.1% on annual basis. Bags have been driving such positive accomplishment, despite a difficult scenario: as reported by the Conseil Nationale du Cuir (the National Leather Council), France’s leather goods manufacturers also augmented their turnover, […]
No residues. Zero emissions. Optimizing costs and saving resources. The new re-tanning agents they succeeded in obtaining are “pretty much free of charge”. German Lanxess, a chemical giant, designed an innovative project to support, develop and drastically change the management of residues coming from the tanning process. This is the reason why the multinational corporation […]
On the one hand, they are supporting industry. On the other hand, they have been completely shutting down a few clusters. In India, leather industry professionals live and work in a complicated and rather contradictory context. Fostering footwear India’s government announced they are going to support footwear industry by creating some corporate Social Responsibility funds […]
The focus remains green: if what we are experiencing now is the environmental revolution of various industries, then everybody expects the improvement to be made in this area
Innovation Training (July 9th-15th) brought european tanners to find out the research excellence of Boston and New York. It seems like a far away world, but it isn’t
Some among the protagonists of the Innovation Training tell their experience. At Lineapelle (October 2-4) the Innovation Square is laying the foundation for the future
