We had few doubts about Karl Lagerfeld’s passion for leather and furs (he latest gave further evidence about it while recently designing a capsule collection for young model Kaia Gerber). Yet yesterday the fashion designer made some more announcements on the topic that are by all means crystal clear: “I do not like these vegans: […]
Let’s have a look at a few figures about Micam and Mipel, which concluded yesterday. Let’s begin with footwear. 45,424 visitors, of whom 27,272 coming from foreign countries and 18,152 from Italy, showed up at Micam 86th edition. Attendance of visitors has been in line with September 2017 edition, and number has gone up, +2,7%, […]
The organization is bound to support a synergy between tanneries, business companies, research and training centres, including all stakeholders, actively playing in the area, in order to create a profitable collaboration and carry out common projects and actions. At Igualada, Spain, they have opened the Barcelona Leather Cluster, an association of about 40 enterprises, such […]
It is official now: Uttar Pradesh government, supported by the Indian court of Environmental Crimes (NGT), has ordered the closure of the leather tanning district, located in Kanpur-Unnao, for a three-month period. Such measure, which has entered into force since last December, though they feared it even before summer, will actually stop 264 tanneries, placed […]
In Kenya they are about to open a new tannery. The government of Narok county, placed in the mid-west of the country, is going to invest 1,2 billion shillings (around 10 million euros) to build up a new tannery to prevent the wastefulness of hides and skins coming from Nyandarua, Narok and Kajiado areas, which […]
An ex-Montblanc as a ceo, and a good performance in the first 5 months. Richemont has promoted from the current position as coo effective immediate, Jerôme Lambert, in the position of ceo of the Swiss luxury multinational. The nominee is a jump in the past: Johann Rupert, president of the group, had decided about a […]
A mirror Cube that turns from one side into a beehive and the other into a screen. In the first case the “cells” form a texture to a wall covered with a patchwork of leathers from which emerges (always following the geometry of the hive) a selected review of very high quality leathers, which can […]
More connected, more transparent. ZDHC will present on Septermber 26th, in Fieramilano Rho, to Lineapelle, “the first global databde for chemicals safety”, during an event held in the LEM conference room (Ponte dei Mari – side pavilion 22). ZDHC group, aka the project “Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals” is progressively enlarging the digital plafrom launched […]
To make clear what leather is and, above all, to distinguish what it is not in the traditional sense of the term. It is the priority that places GLCC Global Leather Coordination Committee, representative that includes ICT (International Council of Tanners), IULTCS (the abbreviation that unites leather chemists) and ICHSALTA (the association of traders), in […]
It is a slow 2018 for the US leather industry, very slow: in the first 7 months of the year bovine leather exports fell 2% in volume (yearly base), meaning 14 million units, and by 21% in value (about 700,000 USD). Wet blue leather also lost 20% in volume (3.6 million units) and 13% in […]
Premise (taken from the introduction to the event that this news is about: “Companies that have been wanting to commercialize a product as ‘green’ have found themselves stuck with methods, initiatives, and tools that were often partisan, inefficient and non-transparent. This situation has brought confusion among both operators and customers, becoming an obstacle for the […]
Milano is back to being ‘extra-large’ for fashion week Milano (planned for September 18th through 24th). The second edition of Milano XL is an event that enlarges the meaning of the runways (also timing wise, since it goes from September 12th to the 24th), it goes into the city, it has as subtitle an Italian […]
Production and export are positive, consumption isn’t. This is the summary of the first semester of the German footwear industry. In the period going from January to June of 2018, the revenue of the German footwear industry went up 3.2%, compared to the same period in the previous year, reaching 1.55 billion euro. The data […]
Oman India Joint Investiment focuses on leather. The investment fund, with the support of India’s national bank and General Reserve of Oman has acquired 26% of Stanley Lifestyles, Bengaluru-based company specialized in the manufacturing of upholstery, furniture and car interiors. With the 24 million USD received (that is the amount paid to acquire the quote), […]
An export made of 9.9 million square-meters of leather, down 33.7% compared to the same month of 2017, with a total turnover now of 77.6 million USD, which is 47.6% down on yearly base. Brazil’s tanning industry, according to data provided by SECEX (Brasilia’s agency for foreign commerce), saw its numbers hit a large obstacle. […]
Delafon Paris (ex leather goods’ manufacturer Delphine Delafon), looks for its comeback with the new collection signer Judith Fabre. The designer and founder, Delphine Delafon had put the company up to be liquidated in September of 2017: she hadn’t found enough funds to develop and commercialize her prêt-à-porter line, made after the leather goods. The […]
A summer filled with large operations for French luxury giant Chanel. The brand, according to lesechos.com, has completed its acquisition of Tanneries Haas (which began in 2012). Eichoffen-based Haas specializes (with another handful of transalpine tanneries), in veal leather and employees 115 people and has 41 million euro of revenue”. In 2017, Haas reached production […]
The numbers come from APICCAPS (Portuguese Footwear, Components, Leather Goods Manufacturers’ Association), and it was published in the yearly edition of World Footwear Yearbook. Summarizing the findings: global footwear production in 2017 is once again growing, after a flat 2015/2016 period. The global production’s output last year was of 23.5 billion pairs, 2% more than […]
If the hosts aren’t positive, then the tradeshow can’t be positive. All China Leather Exhibition, the leather fair that took place inside Shanghai’s International Expo Centre (August 29-31), has felt the doubts about the Chinese tanning sector throughout all three days. As shown by CLIA’s numbers, reference association for the entire leather market of Beijing, […]
Helsinki’s Fashion Week organizers managed, in one instance, to prove themselves antidemocratic, unfair towards the public, and very misinformed with regards to the actual balance present in the fashion industry’s supply chain. This is Cotance’s (European Confederation of the Leather Industry) accusation against Evelyn Mora, the founder of the event and a high-ranking person in […]
