I love Italian leather. Tommy Hilfiger and wife, Dee Ocleppo, arrived at Micam (in photo) yesterday, to meet their buyers inside the stand filled by handbags and shoes, that carry the name of Dee Ocleppo. The products are all made in Italy: handbags are manufactured by leather goods’ producer Paolo Bianchi of Frattamaggiore, while the […]
Cristiano Ronaldo is once again under fashion’s spotlight. And his return has everything to do with leather. The new collections will be presented this afternoon, during an exclusive party inside Terrazza Martini in Milan, and will include the collection of footwear and accessories created by the Portuguese champion for his brand CR7. The capsule collection […]
With the signing of their partnership, announced on January 24th, Under Armour and Virgin Galactic, sub-orbital flights’ division of the airline founded by Richard Branson in 2010, the two entities have created a new branch of fashion: spacewear. Of course, how to dress and accessories astronauts is something as old as astronautics. But the US-based […]
The government of Western Bengala gave designated land to the first 12 tanneries, moving from Kanpur’s tanning district, that requested to build their new production sites. According to The Times of India, about 100 businesses in Uttar Pradesh are waiting for authorization to build new plants in the Calcutta region. The news isn’t shocking: the […]
Two Italian companies are assisting social development in Tanzania. With leather at the centre of it all. Karanga Leather Industry (KLIK) has underwritten a collaboration agreement with Toscana Macchine Calzature (TMC), historical footwear company, and Italprogetti, Tuscany-based business that develops innovative solutions and technologies for the tanning segment, with the goal of increasing the capacity […]
The prize The Research Commission of IULTCS (International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies) has announced the winners of the 2018 edition of the Young Leather Scientist Awards, a prize awarded to young researchers engaged in the study of new technologies for leather processing. There were two awards: one for basic research and the […]
Good news from Italy for Hermès, whose business is speeding up: in 2018, the brand’s revenues nearly amounted to 6 billion euros (5.966 billion euros for the record), therefore considerably increasing by 7.5% at current rates of exchange and by 10.4% at fixed rates of exchange. How about 2019 forecast? The group also achieved a […]
Will they ever stop? Sounds like a platitude. Necessary though. In fact, yesterday Hermès, the French luxury giant, announced they started up a plan to build a new manufacturing plant, the umpteenth one. The fashion house is expected to open their new factory by 2021, in Louviers, a small town located in Normandy, about one […]
Still we do not know the results of the analysis campaign, inside an experimental project, focused on Italian tanneries’ sewage. Yet UNIC – Italian Tanneries began telling about the first positive feedback coming from a valuable cooperation project recently carried out with ZDHC. They spoke about the initiative before about 300 entrepreneurs and managers, gathered, […]
Detecting the digital profiles required by Europe’s fashion industry, pinpointing overall skills and expertise and fully understand demand for professional training. That applies to all the main players of the business industry, namely textile & apparel, footwear and leather tanning. Aiming at such goals, they launched the Digital Textile Clothing Leather Footwear Industries project, promoted […]
In the next 5 years Europe’s fashion industry will recruit around 1,000 leather technologists, that is, some professionals with digital skills and expertise, to actively work in a complex and digitized cluster. In addition to that, in the next 5 years the industries of leather tanning, footwear and textile-clothing are going to hire over 40,000 […]
Tough times for Australia’s sheep and goat leather industry. According to a report, published by MLA (Meat and Livestock Australia), sheep and lamb units, which are going to be slaughtered in 2019, are expected to decrease considerably. Looking at estimates, they are likely to drop by 7%, compared to 2018; as for adult livestock units, […]
Of course, the owner’s name made the difference. Because, at the same time, the brand is the same: Yves Saint Laurent. But, while Catherine Deneuve‘s sable velvet dress was beaten for 33.750 euros by Christie’s on January 24th, just a few days away, the Parisian auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr sold a woman’s mink […]
“It’s self-evident, but you could not play football without football balls. And yet, people do not pay attention to the protagonist that has played in over 1.5 million games organized by NFL since its foundation in 1941”. It may have been like this also on the occasion of the 53rd edition of the Super Bowl, […]
“The place is called Alla Convergenza (At the Convergence) because it crosses three streets of Arzignano. One is dedicated to Kennedy, a great innovator, one to the Thousand, great revolutionaries, and one to the Mastrotto, great entrepreneurs. At the center is a roundabout and above the roundabout a cloth hides a slender silhouette more or […]
Three days of strike to obtain a 0.57% salary increase. The members of Community Union that are workers of NCT Leather, historic Scottish tannery located in the small town of Bridge of Weir, about 20 kilometres from Glasgow, have decided to ‘cross their arms’ from February 4th till the 6th, putting a stop to the...
CLE, the Council for Leather Exports, has allegedly launched a confrontation with the government of Tamil Nadu, India, for the settling of a production cluster near the city of Vellore, in the South-Eastern area of the country. According to Indian press, the association has proposed to dedicate a large area of about 100 acres, or […]
A life dedicated to leather, which is an industry of which he never ceased to be an outspoken supporter. Don Oshman passed at the age of 78, due to a rare blood tumour disease, in the United States. He was born in 1940 surrounded by leather, surrounded by his family company (Ohsman and Sons), for […]
California-based brand Cuyana obtained 30 million USD in a financing round supported by private equity fund H.I.G. Capital. It founders, Karla Gallardo and Shilpa Shah, stated to the portal Business of Fashion, that they intend to utilize this liquidity to: develop their retail chain via the opening of new stores (in Chicago, Seattle Washington and […]
Following a smart kick-off, it came to an end positively. Lineapelle New York, which took place at the Metropolitan Pavilion, closed its stands yesterday. It was a positive edition, as “attendance of visitors was good – pointed out the event managers – and encounters were highly rewarding, in terms of quality: overall, it definitely went […]
