Alpa and Repico have reached a global partnership agreement, which will be involving all of the company facilities. In doing so, the companies, leaders in the manufacturing of chemicals for the leather-tanning industry, keep pursuing a strategy to “reinforce their own technical and commercial positions on international scale – they announced in a press release […]
UNIC – Italian Tanneries and LWG, which stands for Leather Working Group, have signed today an agreement protocol, at Fieramilano Rho, during Lineapelle97 final day. The agreement Fulvia Bacchi, UNIC General Manager, and Deborah Taylor, LWG manager, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, therefore starting an important factual partnership. “We must – pointed out Fulvia Bacchi […]
Activities, requests, trends, heads up. Lineapelle97 (on the agenda at Fieramilano Rho, on October 2-4) first day proved to be rather hectic, while day two is analytical. “We worked hard, and several visitors turned up”, emphasizes Alberto Caneva, managing director of Faeda tannery, based in Montorso Vicentino. “We are happy, most of all, about visitors’ […]
Sustainable efforts carried out by tanneries, committed to outlining processes to reduce consumption of water and chemicals, have to deal with some limits imposed by current technologies. “Conversely, nanotechnology may enhance efficiency and bring it to standards which are not feasible at present – illustrates Paolo Netti, Professor of Industrial Bio-Engineering at Federico II University […]
The subject also concerns usefulness to some extent: talking about tanning raw material, what is the enhancing value of efforts to optimize its traceability, with regard to materials and, consequently, manufacturers and retailers? They discussed several topics during the workshop “Sustainability Partnerships in the Leather Industry: Focus on Raw Material”, arranged by UNIC – Italian […]
Such is the first input: “We all care about the same problem: to get leather across”. Here is the second input: “We must focus on talking about leather and its value”. Both of them date back to last June. At that time, during UNIC – Italian Tanneries annual assembly, leather industry (both in general and […]
Visitors can admire twelve Naga-Banten, exhibited at hall 11, coming from the Tokyo Leather Fair: its latest edition, held in May 2019, has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the event. Fire fighters The Naga-Banten models, on display at Lineapelle, are part of a collection of 50 cloaks recalling fire fighters uniforms, in the ancient […]
The future is not just an imaginary assumption. The future is an outlook that needs a daily build-up, systematically, developing new projects and planning new fairs and exhibitions. Therefore, if we look ahead, we are going to do the groundwork for our prospective actions. The same applies to Lineapelle and the organization of its fair […]
The industry of leather and materials for fashion joins Lineapelle 97th edition, while dealing with several inputs. On the one hand, the market is facing a complicated economic situation, owing to a number of factors, inside the fashion industry, and other external elements as well (for example, among others, trade wars currently underway). On the […]
Innovation is not something running in sealed, airtight segments: brands laboratories on one side, academies on the other and research institutes on their own. “There are many problems, which affect the supply chain, about materials, around creative issues as well”, pointed out JalaJ Hora, senior vice president of Burberry Raw Materials, Product Engineering and Quality […]
The Leather (re)cycling Exhibition presented an afternoon event yesterday. Lineapelle97 circular laboratory, where visitors may see and experience the multiple activities with which leather industry ends its own valuable cycle. The reasons for the project “Here we wanted to show and present the main outputs about the recycling of waste materials coming from processing. Aiming […]
Plain colour varnish, creased though. Pale shades matched with fluorescent sparkles. Satin metals. Winter 2020/21 is bound to be a season heavily marked by contrasts. Between flawless and imperfect, simplicity and contemporaneity. Starting from such aesthetic discrepancies, hides will benefit from an original balance. This is the mood outlined by the Fashion Committee and presented […]
His name is Francesco La Rosa. He is an Italian contemporary artist, and he is very good at a very peculiar technique: micro carving. He does not need any paintbrush, as he makes use of chisels and knives. As regards canvas, well it is not a traditional one. It is black leather. La Rosa, alongside […]
Presenting the best accessories, designed with Valentino and Salvatore Ferragamo in a few training projects. Outlining a photograph tale of the exhibition three-day-event. Furthermore, developing a capsule collection composed of seven merchandising products. On October 2-4, Polimoda students will not be just guests, as they will be playing a leading role at Lineapelle97, the fashion […]
Leather according to the innovative look of young designers. It is from the collaboration between Monza-based company Motta Pelli and Istituto Marangoni in Milan that a creative project was born, involving students of the Master of Fashion Design Womenswear course. Students made clothes using leather from the tannery based in Brianza, committing themselves to enhancing […]
Design students from national and international academies will be (are) at Lineapelle97 to investigate EQ, the Emotional Quotient, and present the results of their educational and training programs with leather. Students from IUAV University (Venice), Istituto Marangoni and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan), as well as New Parsons School of Fashion (New York), […]
The analysis to detect any possible traces of chromium on leather, in compliance with ISO 17075 standard, may bring to false positive results. Their occurrence depends on several factors, such as determination process (colorimetric or chromatographic), extraction conditions (PH, dosing quantities, or, for example, matrix effect) and sampling methods. They are going to talk about […]
Leather and its process are intrinsically disruptive: because they are circular by definition. And to further highlight, add-value and (most importantly) tell the genetic factor of the “leather material”, the fair has created an ad-hoc area. It’s called The Leather (re)cyclying Exhibition and is an educational and narrational incubator focused on the circularity on the […]
An ante litteram influencer. One of those designers that have literally created fashion without turning into media phenomenon from social media. Today, Lineapelle )11:30 at the Fashion Theater of pavilion 13), meets and celebrates Japan’s stylist Kansai Yamamoto. Additionally, for the entire fair till Friday, Milan’s fair showcases one of the stylist’s last project, presented […]
The invitation picture, and its colourful slogan, immediately recall René Magritte and his surrealism. One can see a leather wallet, filmed from top, semi-circular shaped. The slogan is “This Is Not a Leather Wallet”. What are we talking about then? Please find the answer at the stand of Russo di Casandrino tannery, located at Lineapelle […]
