ICEC’s 23/24 business year closes with growth. From June 2023 to May 2024, the number of certified companies increased by 15% year-on-year, while the number of issued certifications increased by 20%. On this basis, the leading certification body in the leather area, which held a session in Milan on June 13th for its board meeting […]
If everything, a slowdown is underway, but not a widespread crisis. This is what emerged from the 106th edition of Pitti Uomo, which started on Tuesday 11 June and closed on the 14th. The Florentine fair highlighted companies in the premium and luxury segment that are not only holding out, but growing. On the one...
There is more Italy in D.A.T.E. sneakers. The Tuscan brand, born in 2005 and names after the 4 founders Damiano, Alessandro, Tommaso, Emiliano, began to diversify production before the pandemic. Covid simply accelerated the process. Vietnam used to absorb 100% of production, but now the made-in-Italy portion is worth 30% of total production, with the...
Pantofola d’Oro strengthens its supply chain by acquiring its manufacturer, the Costa shoe factory in Porto Sant’Elpidio (Fermo). A historic family-run business with 18 employees. “In this way we have retained skills,” explains Kim Williams, CEO of the brand born in 1886 in Ascoli Piceno. At her booth at Pitti Uomo, Williams (pictured) told us...
Cuoio di Toscana accompanied Marine Serre‘s debut as Guest Designer at Pitti Uomo 106. The Consortium supported the French designer for her fashion show on 12 June in Fiesole, just outside Florence. At the centre of the collaboration was a special passport cover (pictured) that served as an invitation to the fashion show. A leather […]
A call for “coopetition” in the leather supply chain, the merger of cooperation and competition consists in the message launched on June 13th, from Montelupo Fiorentino (Florence) during round table “Sustainability Last Call. The leather supply chain responds.” The initiative was organized by tanning chemicals company FGL International (Castelfranco di Sotto), which is part of...
The ribbon cutting is scheduled for June 28th. On the date an industrial hub dedicated to processing the meat of camelids (such as alpacas or llamas), with an adjoining tannery for processing the hides, will begin activities in Turco, Bolivia. The investment shows the growing South American interest in the all-round products and by-products of […]
Resilience is the only thing that matters. But without public support for investment, the crisis will be complex to manage. That’s the summary of the current situation, according to Assomac, the association representing Italian manufacturers in the footwear, leather goods and tannery technology supply chain. 2023 went well in terms of exports, but the data...
Picketing in shops, farces at fashion weeks, smear campaigns on social and media. To all this we are now accustomed. But the violence that has been unleashed against Marc Jacobs, his team and his employees represents a dangerous leap forward. Because a no-fur organisation (which we won’t mention so as not to give them further […]
The Court of Milan placed Manufactures Dior in receivership to re-establish control over its supply chains. The investigators confirmed that the operational offshoot of Dior Italia was unable to prevent the maison’s contracts or subcontracts from ending up in processing at Chinese-run leather goods factories that had failed in more than one respect. This measure...
Little more than a day apart, in capital cities and with ferocious expertise. There are several common threads between the burglaries at the Bulgari and Chanel boutiques, first and foremost that of being millionaire hits. According to the newspapers, while in the Roman boutique of the maison in LVMH orbit in Via Condotti, the loot...
2024 is not bad for everyone. If for luxury brands there is no shortage of problems, for certain brands, those most capable of being the architects of their own destiny, this year is not annoyingly undetermined while waiting for the next relaunch. This is the indication coming from the Fortezza da Basso in Florence where...
Pattern Group has a clear vision for the future and continues to invest to implement verticalized production capacities. Just a few days ago we reported the purchase, through its subsidiary (80%) S.M.T. Società Manifattura Tessile (SMT), of 100% of Umbria Verde Mattioli (UVM), which specializes in the production, processing and placement on the market of...
Recreating the mythical boot. The one that, on 31 July 1954, for the first time in history, reached the summit of K2. This will not just be an exercise in style for the students of the Politecnico Calzaturiero del Brenta. In other words, the aim of the 70 Years of K2 project is to make […]
The dismay of LHCA, the U.S. Leather Association, is shared by us. The association barely had the time to be pleased with Samsung’s choice for the Galaxy C55 – 5G smartphone in “premium leather,” as defined by the advertisement. That’s because it found out later that the coating is not real leather. “Friends from China“,...
Greater safeguards for the sector, to guarantee employment levels: that is the demand made by the European Union’s TCLF sector. The united fashion supply chain (Cotance for tanning, CEC for footwear, Euratex for textiles-clothing, and the trade union organization industriAll Europe) addressed the 7 actions for the 2025-2029 period. 2029 marks the election of the […]
Fakes are still a problem, and companies are investing to curb the phenomenon. The last to do so is OTB group, which will equip all Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, and Marni products with digital certificates of authenticity, starting with the fall/winter 2024/2025 collections. The announcement comes at the same time as a seizure of fake...
ICT offers its support. While, in general, the entire tanning industry is cheering for the New York State bill that, by regulating commercial labelling in the car market in order to protect the consumer, places a curb on the incorrect labelling of vegan alternatives to leather. The “Consumer protection and automotive transparency act”, in short,...
We would really like to know where these “cows bred for leather” are. Because, as always, we have no problem with those who develop new (so-called next gen) materials. So, we welcome Imperial College London’s project for a new fabric derived from bacterial cultivation: we await it at the market test (and before industrial scalability). […]
Five floors containing showrooms, production and logistics laboratories with the aim of expanding production capacity. Idee Partners is inaugurating a new 4,200-square-meter building at its Scandicci headquarters, one of the three production sites (along with Reggello and Bientina) making up Pattern Group’s leather goods hub. Already active, the new facility was created by buying and...
