Is luxury overcoming Hong Kong crisis? We wonder about it right after reading data about Hermès quarterly performance, recently made public by the group. In fact, for the records, sales carried out by the French fashion house increased by 18.2% at current rates of exchange and by 15% at fixed rates of exchange. No wonder, […]
Criticisms: open or veiled. Positions taken in favour. Detailed analysis of the pros and cons for both parties. The opening of the new Louis Vuitton factory in Texas triggered some debate. Inevitably, US President Donald Trump cut the ribbon. On the one hand, Bernard Arnault and Michael Burke, respectively president of the LVMH group and […]
A testimony from who works in the luxury retail segment of Hong Kong daily doesn’t leave any room for interpretation. “There is no short-term solution in sight. Suicides are increasing, along with Visas’ requests from those that want to relocate abroad. Brands are no longer asking themselves whether to close down or not, but rather...
The Obuv’ Mir Koži, the Italian footwear and leather goods’ fair that takes place at the Expocentr in Moscow from October 21st to the 24th didn’t bring much news: the Russian market remains in crisis. Beside from Tuesday, the event received a low number of visitors. The program The fair hosts 114 exhibitors (91 footwear […]
The upholstery world is agitated. The High Point Market Fall edition kicks off today. The furniture fair that takes place twice a year in North Carolina usually receives 75,000 visitors. A hot topic during the current edition, which closes on October 23rd, is the transitional phase that the market is in due to the trade […]
Uttar Pradesh’s leather chain keeps on getting smaller. About 100 tanneries previously operating in Kanpur and Chennai, the two leather clusters of the region, are close to transferring inside Calcutta’s industrial complex. The new Cluster As reported by uniindia.com, the government of Western Bengal is strengthening the area’s infrastructure, for the space called Calcutta Leather […]
Not just the reduction of their environmental footprint: Chinese tanneries also think about workers’ safety. The Committee for Production Safety in Industrial Tanning. Why Shuitou The city is known to be a specialized center of the tanning of pig hides. A few years ago, about 1.5 billion sq. feet of pig finished leather would be […]
IULTCS, Erretre e Leather Naturally got together to support research in the tanning segment. The International Union of Leather Technlogists and Chemists Societies, Vicenza-based company manufacturing machinery and tech systems, together with the association promoting the segments goods, announced the investment funds to support young scientists, under 35, during the sixth edition of the Young Leather Scientist […]
Belfast may have developed around a tannery. It was revealed by a series of excavations carried out in the historic centre of the capital of Northern Ireland. Details are explained by the Unearthed report, published by the Department for Communities Historic Environment Division (HED) and related to the interventions carried out between 2015 and 2018. […]
In Devonshire, England, the meat and leather industry have been going on alongside for 1,700 years. Testifying this, are the findings made in the British county by a group of archaeologists from the University of Exeter. They were engaged in studying the presence of the Roman Empire near the city of Ipplepen. Roman influences Scholars […]
Celine’s production plant Manufacture dedicated to bags and leather goods for both men and women, was inaugurated on October 17, in Radda in Chianti (Siena), but has been in activity since the end of August. The French brand has invested over 20 million euros for a building occupying an area of 5,200 square meters, and […]
Louis Vuitton will manufacture its made in USA accessories with European materials in the new factory in Keene, Texas. On Thursday, October 17, the inauguration took place in the presence of LVMH owner Bernard Arnault and President Donald Trump. 150, 500, 1,000 Vuitton began manufacturing leather accessories in Texas in 2017, using “temporary facilities”. Then […]
When someone celebrates an important anniversary, like the one we are going to tell you about, he can make a very simple choice. He may focus on the past and tell about its most meaningful steps, therefore making an analysis of his past life and events. Alternatively, one can turn his standpoint upside down and […]
Russkaya Kozha leather-tanning group have recently opened a new plant. In fact, after completing the last works on auxiliary systems for wastewater treatment and cleansing plants, last week on Tuesday (15th October) the Russian company officially inaugurated their new RK Altai tannery, in Zarinsk, Siberia. Figures RK Altai, which extends across an area of 4.5...
Lineapelle Award 2020 is really getting going. After its September presentation, 24 students, coming from the Fashion and Industrial Design departments of Hongik University (Seoul), are about to start a full-immersion activity, which will be going on for six days (October 16-18, 21 and 28-29): during the educational session, they will closely focus on made […]
The proposed increase of US duties, from 25% to 30%, on a part of goods made in China will not start today as previously stated. Phase 1 of the trade agreement reached on Friday by the USA and China included this operation. The document also includes the purchase, by China, of US-made agricultural products for […]
You pay 6.5 million euros and you buy two cars. Aston Martin offers a package consisting of two cars, not sold individually: DBS GT Zagato, produced in only 19 units, and DB4 GT Zagato Continuation. Needless to say, the two cars will be the most expensive Aston Martins ever. The partnership with Zagato Aston Martin […]
“Leather is leather”. CHANEL works on its future, consolidates the supply chain and establishes a production and innovation centre together with 19M. But the brand has an unshakable certainty: as far as material research can go, some pillars will not change. One above all: leather. Pavlovsky’s word Bruno Pavlovsky, president of CHANEL, explains the plan […]
The video that has gone viral (as it’s called nowadays) is one that rather than showcasing the (negative) moment of South America’s tanneries, it proves the invaluable service that tanning offers to society and environment. The clip was created in Argentina at the end of September, when it filmed a truck filled with raw hides […]
The foreseen and disruptive growth of Australia-based brand RM Williams could attract buyers such as VF Corp. Or, finance giants such as Fosun or Lunar Capital, just as well as Australian investors. Investment bank Goldman Sachs has, in fact, opened up the sale of the brand owned by L Catterton (created in 2016 from the […]
