What a Bentley, with “three-dimensional”, seamless, leather interiors

Bentley and leather are about to renew their ever-lasting bond. The historic British car manufacturer (which is now part of the Volkswagen group) is going to present their new Flying Spur saloon car. The company launched on its YouTube channel, over the last days, a rather clear teaser: leather will be undoubtedly the undisputed ruler […]

Crafted, leather-made, tattooed: Terrible Enfant shoes for gentlemen out of the crowd, like Trump and Maradona

Donald Trump, Diego Armando Maradona and Argentine singer Carca have one thing in common: they are all “enfant terrible”. This was explained by Luce Bauzá and Hache Caillaud, two Argentine designers who, to create their own brand, were inspired by the expression used to describe all those characters that stand out from the crowd, spread...

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Ethiopia my love: Pittards invest again in the African country

Pittards invest (again) in Ethiopia. After opening a leather gloves manufacturing plant and a shoe factory, the first one, to support a previously running tannery based in Ejersa (in the pictures taken from pittards.com), the British group have now decided to enhance the latter to “seize the full potential of the industry”. Chief Executive Officer […]

Salvatore Ferragamo grows by 4.3% in the first quarter of 2019: finally

Ferragamo turns the ship around. After sales decreased for 10 consecutive trimesters, the Tuscan brand beats (by a little) the forecasts thanks to China and archives a positive quarter. During the period that closed on March 31st, sales of Salvatore Ferragamo group grew by 4.3%, equal to 317 million euro (analysts were expecting 315 million […]

The double training of Lineapelle: on May 8 the lesson with the students of NABA, while on the 10th with those of the University of Pittsburgh

An opportunity to understand all the possible uses of leather in fashion and design, to discover the variety of colours and finishes offered by Italian tannery, as well as to fully appreciate the sustainability and circularity of the Italian material. On May 8th, 20 students from the Master in Fashion Buying for clothing and accessories […]

Colmenero’s adventurous resistance: the football shoes used by Pelè and Bobby Charlton

There is a small laboratory in the heart of Chalco, an old neighborhood in Mexico City, where football is standing still at the time of Pelè. Here Jose Luis Rivera is continuing the tradition passed to him by his father-in-law, David Rivas, along with its leather handmade football shoes’ brand: Colomenero. Rivas made football shoes...

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Louis Vuitton to open third factory in the same town and build their own Scandicci: French luxury recreates the Italian district model

The news needs two different and subsequent interpretations. Let us look at the news story, to begin with. Louis Vuitton started the construction works to open a new leather goods factory in the municipality of Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule (situated in the department of Allier, in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes). The plant, which will extend across 6,000 […]

Tod’s revenues keep going down: 216 million euros, -4.3%. Good news from Roger Vivier and direct retail: “Comforting messages”, says Della Valle  

The first quarter of the year has not been amazing, but not so appalling either. From January to March 2019, Tod’s sales just reached 216.4 million euros. Therefore, they decreased by 4.3% at current rates of exchange and dropped by 5.7% at fixed rates of exchange, slightly below the average expectations of analysts, whose predicted […]

In CHANEL there is still a lot of Lagerfeld: Viard reinterprets the master inserting new elements, also in the iconic bags

What will happen to CHANEL after Karl Lagerfeld? In February, after the disappearance of the couturier, it was the question that everyone, in the fashion world and outside, was asking, even a bit preoccupied. Now everything has been revealed. CHANEL’s Cruise took place in Paris. Without considering the weight that pre-collections now have for luxury […]

Ethiopia, tanners at war with exaggerated protectionist practices: “Duties only favor foreign investments if used this way”

No stimulus for local enterprises and financial policies that favor foreign investors more than local ones. These are the accusations made by local tanners to the Ethiopian government, as reported by local newspaper The Reporter Ethiopia, in an article that reads how a lot of representatives from various companies in the sector have, since Friday, […]