Protecting privacy and health with a diamond fiber. This is the uniqueness of Ferronato accessories, a Swiss brand with Italian origin. The brand is part of Ferronato KGS Group, a holding company founded in 1906 and specialized in metallic fabrics for industrial applications. This leather goods’ line is made in Italy and incorporates shielding from...
Portugal’s footwear segment has Italy as its benchmark in luxury. Not only that: it wants to nibble market share from it through more competitive pricing. “We definitely want to reduce the gap with Italy by raising the quality of our production and changing our mentality”, Paulo Martins (in photo), CEO of Lusitanian shoe manufacturer Celita...
What you can see in the photo is the reconstruction of a military sandal from Roman times. It comes from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, whose researchers analysed a recent find in Bavaria. It is a leather sole dating back at least 2,000 years and characterised by a very significant detail and it […]
With the double appointment in London and New York, Lineapelle opens its new trade fair season, culminating with the Milan event in September. The first appointment is Tuesday, 9 July 2024, at the Ham Yard Hotel, in the heart of the City. The second is scheduled for Wednesday, July 17 and Thursday, July 18, at […]
LVMH and Richemont are still the focus of investors’ attention. A few days ago, LVMH boss Bernard Arnault bought shares in the Swiss conglomerate. An act that has, inevitably, triggered speculation about a possible deal between the two luxury superpowers. Which – and herein lies the renewed interest in them – are now announcing changes...
hat’s edutainment. We are in Spoleto, for the 67th edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi (The Two Worlds Festival, ed.), a historic kermesse on the Italian cultural scene. An event that, from 28 June to 14 July, tackles – as per its mission – an artistic interpretation of research and avant-garde with regard to […]
The luxury segment hits the brakes and Italian leather goods production plummets. A boom in requests for Redundancy Fund, with the record in the last 15 years. Leather goods starts 2024 in reverse. Economic indicators for the first quarter of this year are all negative. It’s a real “Italian alert”, because the outlook is not...
“It is a dark period. I fear that before the recovery arrives, there will be a selection of companies”. This is the statement of Fabio Ducci, who chairs High Italian Manufacturing – HIM, a company that manages both its own and licensed brands for shoes and clothing. Ducci (pictured) is a manager with long experience...
Seeing in leather the tool for nearshoring and reshoring. Dimitri Bettin, CEO of Fly, aims to increase the supply of leather footwear as a driving force to transfer production from Asia to Europe. Fly is headquartered in Silea (Treviso) and has a design studio in Montebelluna. It manages seven proprietary brands: U.S. Golf Club, Onyx,...
Some are still raising prices, like Gucci and Dior. But the other brands are no longer doing so. Perhaps the end of the rise season is near, not least because in China (for example) brands that cannot afford it anymore are already backing off. Rise season The pricing strategy of the brands is under scrutiny....
L Catterton cashes out of Birkenstock, making $756 million from the sale of a 7.9% stake (done in part through a group of employees). The stock market has not taken the move very well: the German sandals’ stock has lost 11% in the past 5 days (but it is also true that it had risen...
Valentino Garavani and Mario Valentino have made peace. Yet, they have not definitively defused the casus belli. The two brands have agreed to settle the legal battle that started in the United States in 2019. But the terms of use of the “Valentino” trademark on leather goods, agreed upon in 1979, still represent a minefield. […]
Fruit boxes that become leather cases. Shopping bags that turn into durable leather shopping bags. Everyday objects reinterpreted into (fun) luxury items. This is the secret of Domestique, the Parisian brand that uses leather to decontextualise things and catapult them into the world of fashion accessories. We met founder Bastien Beny at the latest edition...
Celebrating 80 years by building the future. How? With a collection aiming to a new target audience. The Soldini shoe factory in Capolona (Arezzo), is preparing to reach an important milestone. Founded in 1945 by Gustavo Soldini, the company will turn 80 in 2025, and has decided to warm up the engines of the upcoming...
It’s called Conscious Leather Design Academy. Conscious because it recalls sustainability, to be interpreted as green awareness (360 degrees). Leather is self-explanatory. Design defines the creative perimeter of the initiative. Academy contextualizes its educational purpose. Main characters of the project: Officina Vanvitelli of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and Lineapelle. Together, they have created […]
When designing a special performance product, leather is chosen. This is demonstrated by projects at Lexus and Abarth where upholstery is called upon to withstand extreme conditions, to say the least. The special performance: moisture-resistant For its 75th birthday, Abarth unveiled a 230-horsepower car-boat (in photo on the right). An ultra-limited edition product called Abarth […]
At Paris Fashion Week (18-23 June), a radical mutation of the male wardrobe was on stage. Starting with Kim Jones, who re-proposes for Dior the brand’s codes, contaminating them with workwear. Genius and madness instead for Jonathan Anderson, who brings to the catwalk through Loewe a game of grandeur inspired by his childhood. At Hermès,...
A desolate road, mountains of hides left rotting in the sun along with garbage, an old man standing there perhaps hoping to pull in some change. It looks like a horror movie, but these are the images coming from the Turkish province of Gaziantep. Images to be shown to those who dream of a tanning-free […]
US-based Garrett Leather acquired Canadian company CTL Leather. Garrett Leather (Buffalo, USA) founded in 1988 by Cameron Brown, sells fine leathers to furnish private jets, automobiles, hotels. Among its customers is even the White House. On the other hand CTL Leather was founded in 1993 in Toronto, Canada. The latter designs and develops special projects […]
Rohde, the German shoe manufacturer with an Italian soul, is thinking positive. After risking bankruptcy in 2017, it came under the ownership of the Italian Condor Trade group of Verolanuova (Brescia), best known for the brand Inblu. The shoe factory retained its Schwalmstadt location, and today has a turnover of around EUR 24 million, producing...
