The Prada group is running fast. 2022 accounts have exceeded expectations: 4.2 billion euros in revenues and net profit of 465 million euros, +58% on 2021. A real bang, solid and reassuring to the point that, in 2023, the group could already reach 4.5 billion euros in revenues. Well in advance, therefore, to the medium-term […]
Game (almost) over. The Californian ban on crocodile leather and products and alligator is invalid. This sentence by Kimberley Mueller, Sacramento district judge, stated: the commerce of exotic leather in California remains legal, as per US federal law and CITES. This judge (in the foto), decided this way on the appeal made by the Louisiana...
There is a thought current that wants to present recycled plastic as the future of sustainability. An interesting thought, but one to be handled with care. Because the fashion industry, along with investigative journalists, are raising many doubts on both the green quality of the material and the recovery chain. All doubts that push us...
Let’s start with the numbers. 20 craftsmen and technicians are needed to make the Bale Bag by Loro Piana. And very skilled ones at that: to sew the handles by hand with due skill, for example, you need workers with years of experience. Not only that. These craftsmen use 25 tools to assemble 60 different...
A collection that is a tribute to the company’s history and, at the same time, a bridge to its future. Because it launches it towards an updated identity as a contemporary brand. There are seven models and seven colours in “7 generations” by Amato Daniele, the Fall-Winter 2023/24 collection of the brand made by Leu...
“Reshoring? No thanks”. Giuseppe Bettinelli (in photo), entrepreneur leading La Compagnia delle Pelli, believes that the price difference between producing in Asia and Italy is still too wide. At least for his reference segment. Created in 1993 and specialized in managing licenses in the leather goods’ industry (currently Baldinini, Harmont&Blaine and Ungaro), La Compagnia delle Pelli is […]
The war in Tigray has caused the destruction of the Sheba Leather Industries, leather cluster that exported shoes, handbags, and accessories. News come from the Confederation of Ethiopian Unions (CETU), reported by newspaper The Reporter. Sheba is one of the 16 companies part of the Endowment Fund for Rehabilitation of Tigray conglomerate, previously owned by […]
Stella McCartney parades horses at her fashion show in Paris. And so, she proves that, in practice, animal rights doctrine interests her only as far as it suits her. And from their point of view they are right. The British fashion designer has never lacked the raised toe of the judicious teacher. And even this time, she […]
Watching this video, we were immediately reminded of the slogan of the last edition of Lineapelle: Make Tomorrow Bloom. It was a matter of an instant before we lost ourselves in the thrilling wonder of watching how Maison Dior made what its creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, called “one of my favourite pieces in the […]
Tuscan company Pellemoda acquires Second Skin (located in Orvieto). “It’s a solution for our lack of workforce”, explained to Il Sole 24 Ore entrepreneur Azzurra Morelli, of Empoli. One thing to keep in mind: Second Skin had been working with Pellemoda for a few years. The former has this strengthened its position by creating a small luxury […]
Limited edition 18 carat gold trainers that cost as much as 67,000 euros. This is the limitless exclusivity of The Millionaire Cartel brand, founded in 2021 by Fabio Cordella and Luca Ameli. A brand based in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno) that has seduced several former football champions including Ronaldinho, Iaquinta and Sneijder (pictured)....
The markets believe in China‘s recovery and the knock-on effect on luxury accounts. The markets, however, believe a little less in Gucci‘s ability to intercept the possible return of the Asian dragon. Although, trips, first by François-Henry Pinault, Kering‘s number one, and then by Marco Bizzarri, Gucci’s CEO, to Beijing suggest that the double-G brand […]
Argentina’s government has decided to announce a change to the duties currently applied on exported raw hides. It promised to listen to the demands of the meat industry and remove the 10% duty on exported raw hides. The government hasn’t officially published the law yet, but operators of the tanning industry are already on the...
On one end is Trussardi’s earthquake. On the other are Furla’s certainties: it’s not for sale and isn’t planning an IPO. News sources say that Trussardi’s entire BoD has left its post, and even CEO Sebastian Suhl is no longer in the position. The brand’s strategy is now allegedly to restructure and sell. Furla, on the...
Amina Muaddi is trying to replicate with bags the success achieved with shoes: in September, she will launch an extensive leather goods collection. Together with jewellery, this is the category on which the designer is focusing to develop sales. After just five years in business, the eponymous brand closed 2022 at 55 million euros in […]
A white grand piano and someone always singing. The latest edition of Lineapelle (21-23 February) for Gargiulo Leather was an opportunity to celebrate 70 years in business. It was in fact 1953 when Carmine Gargiulo opened the first tanning company, together with his son Antonio, currently at the helm of the company in Casoria (Naples)....
“Travelling light” and vegetable-tanned leather. This is the combination that has declared the winner of Craft the Leather 2023, the ninth edition of the international competition promoted by the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium. Topping the podium is Dutch designer Wout Speyers of the René Van den Berg Academy (Hoofddorp, The Netherlands). His collection ‘The...
At Cotance table is ICEC, the certification institute for the leather area. With it are LWG, Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF), Oekotex and Textile Exchange. Together, they all join the work promoted by the association representing the European tanning industry in Brussels in view of the harmonisation of leather traceability schemes. Cotance launched the initiative at […]
“There is a new sheriff in town, would say an old Western film”. In Germany, VDL (the association that represents the nation’s tanning industry) now has the power to file against those misusing the word leather. That means that all the brands and manufacturers selling goods made with alternative materials (most of them plastic-based), but […]
With its trademark discretion, Chanel has impressively increased its trainer offering. While some brands such as Fendi and Gucci are lowering the weight of sportswear in their wallets, focusing on loafers and high heels, Chanel is making the opposite move. It hasn’t given the models a specific name other than ‘trainers’, it doesn’t advertise them,...
