After being bought by LVMH in July 2023, Loro Piana is experiencing booming performances when it comes to leather goods. “Leather goods are our fastest growing category”, says the CEO of the brand, Damien Bertrand, to MFF. Even if handbags “aren’t the top product” (focus of the brand remain cashmere and wool), the success of […]
“Declining trainers? No, it’s just a period of change”. Mauro Di Liddo (pictured), CEO of Blackboard, the company that controls the Wushu Ruyi brand, analyses the trainers market. He tells us about fashion trends, collaborations, new players, investors and counter-trend financial statements. In other words: while trainer sales in general are growing less than in...
No more greenwashing. The European Parliament approved a new directive with the goal of protecting consumers from unfair practices and help them in their purchasing choices. For example, companies will not be able to use claims “if they aren’t supported by concrete proof”, including “respectful of the environment”, “respectful of animals”, “green”, or “vegan”, “biodegradable”,...
A complex economic moment. Very complex. An eagerly awaited trade fair event. Highly anticipated. After the excellent London edition, held last Tuesday (23 February) yesterday in Manhattan Lineapelle New York opened the dances. Two days of exhibition (Wednesday 31 January and Thursday 1 February) with several objectives. First: to bring to the USA the first […]
The world tour of Italian technology in 2024 started in Pakistan and will end in Milan. Technology for tanneries, shoe factories and leather goods, represented by Assomac and brought to the fair by Simac Tanning Tech, defines a rich global roadmap. Objective: “Strengthen the competitiveness of member companies”. The global roadmap of Simac Tanning Tech […]
The normalization of LVMH carries potential for growth and limits, all welcome by the management. Financial data for the last quarter of 2023, similar to that of the previous quarter, confirms that the French holding is travelling below the growth trends of the 2020/2021 period, as the rest of the industry. LVMH’s management explains that...
Adidas is not giving in to animal rights activists and is holding firm on the kangaroo. After winning out with Puma and Nike, who have abjured kangaroo leather for football boots, veg activists have put Adidas in their sights, the last of the three sports giants to use it. According to the protests, Adidas uses...
From the small artisan to the big industry, the Japanese leather tradition is strengthening over time. Indeed, leather is the protagonist of production in the Land of the Rising Sun. For Eiichi Katsukawa (right, in the photo), it is synonymous with nature to the point of having launched the ReSHOES project. For Morita Konosuke (left,...
Being CEO of a trainer brand at only 19 years of age seems like a dream. And so it is for young Turin-based Federico Priarone (pictured) who, together with his family, has taken over Le Signe (previously owned by a Tuscan company), giving it a new life. The Priarones took over the trainers brand in...
“Using state-of-the-art technology to promote and remain true to manufacturing tradition”. This is the aim of the X3ME project by Bianchi e Nardi 1946: “It stems from the desire to create physical products and transport them into the digital world”. It is a capsule collection of accessories that, through a dedicated platform, will be customisable...
JBS Couros is currently capable of tracing 8,000 suppliers in Brazil. The leather division of the meat manufacturing giant has reached the number on January 30th thanks to the JBS Green Offices program, which allows for the socio-environmental regularization of agricultural companies making up the value chain (47% are small enterprises). The goal of JBS […]
LVMH is a record-breaking machine and a generator of dissatisfaction. Why? Quite simple. First: its latest financial statement is, as usual, insane. Second: its number one, Bernard Arnault (left in the photo), is never satisfied. So much so, that he has (re)made it clear that the French group’s only goal is to get bigger and...
China and leather goods are pushing Tod’s to record levels in terms of revenue. Preliminary data published y the Marche-based luxury group show a consolidated revenue of 1.127 billion euro or +11.9% on 2022 at current rates and +14% at constant rates. The performance of the leather goods lines (+16.6%) is better than the footwears’ […]
Increasing prices could cause a hard stop for the leather goods segment. The homes of wealthy consumers were filled with handbags in the past few years, but now that prices have skyrocketed, they may prefer to buy jewelry. Generally speaking, analysts believe luxury brands will perform better than others in the coming period, but they...
Orders down, redundancy funds used at double rate and unsustainable demands for SMBs and fashion artisans in Tuscany. The leather goods’ district in Florence sounds the alarm, especially on the basis of the picture shown by CNA Firenze Metropolitana, which has presented the segment’s situation in Scandicci on January 23rd 2024 in a workshop titled...
Mission number one: “to promote and enhance Italian leather in the interior design sector through styling and product development actions”. Mission number two: to activate “collaborative connections with the world of Italian and international design and architecture”. A new project will make its debut at Lineapelle 103, scheduled to take place at Fieramilano Rho from […]
Calculating the average carbon footprint of leather is a big challenge, from both a technical and methodological standpoint. Yet, the market demands it, and Europe has accepted the challenge. This is what the Green Leather Deal, project launched by Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community), in collaboration with...
Minimalism and high quality leather. These are the essential ingredients on which the new trainer brand Akman, which made its debut at the latest edition of Pitti Uomo (9-12 January 2024), relies. The brand was founded two years ago by André Maritan (pictured) from Vigonza (Padua) who, with his design studio, has been developing shoes...
Every pair of trainers is different: because every leather is unique. Brightway, the Japanese leather trainer brand created by International Shoes, presented Kyoto Leather Collection, a project uniting two Japanese territories of great traditions, at the latest edition of Pitti Uomo (9-12 January). On the one hand Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. On the other Himeji,...
It is an event that possesses – and expresses this with considerable evidence – an almost domestic atmosphere, in the sense of the welcome it reserves to its visitors. And it is an exhibition that thrives on very particular flows, absolutely unique. It is a trade fair dimension that for years has managed to gather […]
