di Gustavo De Feo* A few months ago, together with the Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale in Tuscany, we started a research project concerning vegetable leather ageing. Just like, for us time passes inexorably, slowly transforming our appearance, nourishing our life of experiences that is then visible on our leather, vegetable leather over the […]
The oldest leather shoe in the world is from Armenia and is in perfect conditions: it was made 5500 years ago The oldest shoe in the world is made with leather and it is more than 5500 years old. It was discovered in 2008 in a cave in the province of Vayotz Dzor, Armenia, and […]
di Luciano Falqui e Alessandra Evangelista* The research and development department of Officine di Cartigliano, beside from continuously working to improve its tanning machinery, has also enlarged its reach to touch on the environmental segment as well, because it is a sector that is becoming increasingly strategic. Specifically, the department developed a low temperature drying […]
The renunciation of exotic leathers is it a responsible gesture? It is not, because they are jeopardizing conservation projects and bringing local communities to their knees. “That of Chanel is a lazy choice”: Daniel Natusch of IUCN explains why
Elvis & Kresse is a leather goods brand founded in 2015 in the United Kingdom with the Mission of re-using materials. Since 2017, the brand has partnered up with Burberry on a project that brings new life to the chain’s waste products
From tanning waste material to the ipo. Sicit 2000’s journey shows how the leather industry creates value (at 360 degrees) even from the waste it produces
From 20 to 22 February, the most important business experience reserved for fashion and luxury supply chain sizes the number of edition number 96. And tesse a thread between fashion, innovation and sustainability in the light of a precise choice: that quality
The innovative plan, February 20-22, at Fieramilano Rho, will be complete. It happens once a year, when, Simac Tanning Tech comes alongside to Lineapelle, in perfect continuity of time and space. The event of reference for technology comes to the appointment in great shape
di Federico Brugnoli* The ideal metaphor is that of the “gym”. Before becoming a fashion and luxury phenomenon, sports footwear has always been an innovative gym, encouraging the entry into production of futuristic materials and technologies, new management solutions for the manual conveyor. All aimed at the need to combine aesthetics and technical performance, and […]
Even those opposed to the dominance of sneakers, at the end of the day, end up wearing them of put them in their collection. While some start to suspect that their run is about to come to an end, let us try to understand how the sneakers’ incredible success has (structurally) changed the balance of the chain
The Italian brand (owned by the French LVMH) extends the list of those who land around Florence to produce its leather goods accessories. The new factory will open at the end of 2020 in Bagno a Ripoli and, for the Tuscan municipality, it will be a real revolution
Ecco Leather, tanning division of the Danish footwear and leather accessories group, gets to the market with DriTan: the solution to save “enormous quantities of water” and “mud” during the production phase, they say by Roberto Procaccini Five years of research went into this project, which was followed by a developmental phase. Personnel, time and […]
2018 was an odd year for international commerce practices. A year, most of all, characterized by the constant back-and-forth between the United States and China, busy with a trade war that wastes no time in scaring the world, and moreover, shaking up the precarious commercial equilibriums currently existing within countries
300,000 Like the pieces of Spanish Entrefino lamb leather traced in the first year of project SELAMBQ (Spanish Entrefino Lamb Quality). Its main goal is to “find solutions to the effective qualitative decay of this niche tanning raw material, which is particularly liked by the high-end market”, reads a note in the press. SELAMBQ is […]
The shutdown has been deducting us traders an instrument of market analysis, slowing down public procedures. A more reliable climate with china cheers up but with a view to march first uncertainties are still there
The United States close a challenging 2018, and start the new year with a new-found strength in Chinese demand (but for how long?). All the issues and challenges of a time-period that is hard to interpret, according to Francesco Matelli
The global market which is going to show up at Lineapelle96, scheduled on Wednesday, February 20, the day after tomorrow, is currently facing a difficult situation, quite lacklustre. Such scenario demands for the opening of new potential opportunities rather than solutions. The most important business experience in the global leather industry is ready to open […]
Save the date: Thursday, February 21, from 2pm to 4.30pm. Anyone who is going to turn up at Lineapelle, scheduled next week, at Fieramilano Rho, had better save the date and time. Visitors will therefore be given the opportunity to attend a workshop, “Italian Leather Circularity – Total Sustainability”, arranged by UNIC – Italian Tanneries, […]
The event took place on September 12-14 in its traditional venue, located at Paris Nord Villepinte. Around 240 exhibitors, about half of whom were Italians, participated in the fair. The exhibition, which closed its stands a few days ago, highlighted some trend factors to be considered, though it is not big news in the end. […]
“When we look at leather articles supply, we still observe some gaps. This is the sector we are most actively working on. We consider some opportunities simply because it makes sense”. Such are the remarks François-Henri Pinault, chief executive officer of Kering, pointed out, earlier this week, while presenting the annual accomplishments achieved by the […]
