Do you want to go back on heels or need comfort? Shoes for winter 21/22 seen on the catwalks of fashion weeks are everything and the opposite of everything. Fashion favours the home torpor to which lockdown has accustomed us, and offers soft fur boots and flat shoes. But it also expresses the desire to...
Prada’s 2020 is red. Revenue dropped by 24% and the financial results for the year show a net loss of 54 million euro. “We managed to achieve our objectives even during this disruptive year”, commented Patrizio Bertelli. The group’s CEO is looking to the future with faith: “These results provide us the necessary trust to […]
The news quickly makes its way around the web. But it requires careful reading, because the topic is slippery and lends itself (as we will see, unfortunately) to inevitable simplifications and exploitation. In a nutshell: Hermès has announced that, by the end of 2021, it will sell a version of the Victoria travel model packaged […]
“In the collective unconscious, leather is a protective material, for historical reasons. It is the oldest material that man has ever used to dress and protect himself. Therefore, leather is essential for a creative response”. Words by Jean-Claude Jitrois, 77 years old. The designer returned to Paris fashion Week, from where he had been missing […]
Excess leather? It becomes luxury thanks to Loewe. Spanish Surplus Proejct is focusing its effort on reusing little cuts of leather. An initiative that was undertaken on a large scale and that follows similar other projects for environmental sustainability. Excess leather Designer Jonathan Anderson went back and did more thinking on its iconic basket-handbag. The […]
Chinese police arrested about 40 people in the Guangdong province for suspicion of them being involved in an organization that manufactured and sold fake Vuitton handbags. One of them appears to be an employee of the French brand’s local boutique. The revenue from operations amounts to about 15.4 million USD. Moreover, some models were sold […]
Expansion into the digital world, the opening of new boutiques, colourful bags that you carry hands free. LVMH relaunches Moynat with precise distribution and style strategies. But the focal point is certainly craftsmanship, which according to Sidney Toledano is “the heart of Moynat”. LVMH relaunches Moynat Moynat was founded in 1849, anticipating Louis Vuitton by […]
The Agnelli family, through financial company Exor, invests (again) in luxury. And in leather. After spending 80 million euros to secure control of Shang Xia, a Chinese brand owned by Hermès, they invested another 541 million euros to buy 24% of Christian Louboutin. Two important operations in just three months that suggest that there may […]
At some point of the debate, the question becomes very direct: is it ethical to use exotic leather in fashion? The answer is yes. It is, according to the scientists currently working on preserving animal species. It is, according to LVMH and Richemont. Cathelijne Klomp and Matthew Kilgarriff, respectively manager of the Environment Development Department […]
Resist and restart. These are the watchwords of the speech by the president of Assocalzaturifici Siro Badon, at the inauguration of Micam Milano Digital Show. The virtual fair opened on Monday, March 8. In 2020, the pandemic burned a fourth of the strength of the Italian footwear industry. The trend is not changing in the […]
“Luciano Padovan is leather”. Designer Mario Dice (right in the photo) is quite certain in defining which material will guide the rebirth of the historic footwear brand. In terms of strategy, however, there is the vision of Giorgio Innocenti (left in the photo), CEO of LP Group (a company controlled by Innocenti Group), who speaks...
Melina C’s key to success is simple: Leather and Italian manufacturing. “There is a unique know-how in Italy, as well as a secular tradition, ability to work leather and the passage of knowledge from one generation to another”, says the founder of brand Melina C, Melina Cervesato, Belgian with descendants from Friuli Venezia Giulia. Leather […]
Picard is no longer insolvent and is back in the running. The German leather goods’ maker finished the self-administration period conceded by the District Court of Offenbach. The extraordinary management, requested in May of 2020, was useful for protecting itself from creditors. Back in the running Due to the pandemic and missed revenue (specifically from […]
“A Birkin bag? It’s a handbag, a piece of art, and an investment all rolled into one”. That’s the statement given by Caroline Bui, founder and owner of The Birkin Fairy, a second-hand retail platform focused on Hermès’ accessories. From 2014 to now, she sold used Birkin bags for a total value of almost 2 […]
Hermès is still a great saddlery. The maison is, among the large ones, the only one that still produces riding clothing and accessories. And at 23 Rue Boissy d’Anglas, in Paris, Laurent Goblet takes 25 to 35 hours to make a saddle by hand. Starting from the project, he creates measures and shapes according to […]
German fairs: who gives up and who go online. Essenz, scheduled for March 28-30 in Munich, has been canceled. Its sister fair, Moda Made in Italy, which is always held in the Bavarian capital, had not even been planned. ILM goes digital. Gallery Shoes & Fashion remains confirmed: it will be held in attendance from […]
They do not offer the same resistance to breaking and tearing, nor the same permeability to water vapour, much less the same capacity to absorb water vapour. Whatever manufacturers say, eco-friendly alternatives are no better than leather. And, on balance, they are not even that much eco: because often the materials are composed, in whole […]
By registry, this is the edition that gets it to legal age. UNIC – Italian Tanneries presented to the public yesterday (digitally), the new Sustainability Report of the national tanning industry. The document has been crafted and published for 18 years now and is, in this version, also available for download. All the sustainable practices […]
The period was “very differentiated, based on the leather segment”. Which is “fairly logical”, given the daily criticalities that are present every day and that, in 2020, caused overall revenue to drop by 26% of its value. Then there is the need to continue improving on its sustainability excellency. Finding new ways to communicate to […]
2020 wasn’t a good year for tanneries in Spain and France: (almost) all indicators of imports and exports were negative. And it couldn’t be otherwise: Covid-19 had a negative impact on both countries (just as it did in Italy). When looking at the data, it is challenging to find the plus sign anywhere: one of […]
