Search Results for: leather

News
  • 2 May 2019
  • Premium

Destroying unsold goods, Paris studies a law to make it a crime: fast fashion and luxury brands have been warned

Paris (could) declare war to everyone active in the fashion industry, if the brand is caught destroying unsold stocks. In France, as a matter of fact, the government is preparing a law that makes the mentioned process illegal. According to indiscretions published by WWD, Brune Poirson, France’s State Secretary and minister for ecological transition, is...

ACCEDI PER CONTINUARE A LEGGERE

Scopri l'abbonamento che fa per te tra le nostre proposte

Already a member? Log in here
Luxury
  • 2 May 2019

If leather is the star: Berluti creates a very special collection for Sotheby’s (that includes a Porche 911)

Fourteen exclusive pieces. And leather as the absolute star. In the spotlight, the collection developed by Berluti for Sotheby’s in view of an exceptional online sale entitled “Berluti: the art of craftmanship”, born precisely from the idea of celebrating the craftsmanship of the LVMH group brand’s craftsmen. There are featured: a leather backpack combined with […]

Gli espositori indiani a Riva del garda spiegano cosa sta succedendo alle concerie in Uttar Pradesh
News
  • 2 May 2019

Chaos in India: in the midst of elections, tanners call out a “conspiracy” against them

While the elections take place (they started April 11th and will be over on May 19th) and the candidates’ attention seems to reside elsewhere, Uttar Pradesh’s tanners fear a boycott. On the pages of online daily newspaper firstpost.com, the president of Uttar Pradesh Leather Industry Association, Taj Alam, explains he believes there is a “conspiracy” […]

Footwear
  • 2 May 2019

Controversy in Pakistan for Louboutin: its sandal is an homage to chappal, but the brand is accused of “cultural appropriation”

Christian Louboutin divides Pakistan. The stylist created Imran, sandal inspired by the Pakistani traditional Chappal (or chapal). The model has overlapping leather stripes that cover the foot, rubber soles and a slight heel at the back, an emblem of Pashtuns’ social classes that settled in the north-west of Pakistan. Louboutin’s version takes the name from […]

Footwear
  • 29 Apr 2019

Albania, as speaks Fital, a shoe factory with 8,000 pairs a day: “Currency speculators are ruining us, a hasty EU membership is not the solution”

Production relocation, currency fluctuation and EU membership negotiations starting next June. The future of Albania, a third country in the footwear sector, is all here. “I believe that the strong fluctuations of the Lek, the Albanian currency, are the result of financial speculation, even inside Albania. It is clear that a loss of value of […]

Tannery
  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Premium

Tanning (sometimes) is also a game: from Atlas to Tropico 6, video games where leather is part of the strategy

Forty units of fiber, 35 of leather, 40 of Keratinoids, 20 of metal and 120 of wood. These are the resources needed to build a tannery in Atlas, one of the best known multiplayer videogames. Building a tannery in Atlas is a crucial step to continue the adventure when using your character, who, in the...

ACCEDI PER CONTINUARE A LEGGERE

Scopri l'abbonamento che fa per te tra le nostre proposte

Already a member? Log in here
Furriery
  • 25 Apr 2019
  • Premium

The Eu is at work for the welfare of fur. But (would you look at that) animal activists become upset

The complaints of animal activists define this as a grave “endorsement” by the European Commission, that has recently taken two strategic steps to protect animal welfare within the fur chain. First of all, the entity made a call to European universities that want to collaborate on the topic of fur-animals (in the “small animals” segment,...

ACCEDI PER CONTINUARE A LEGGERE

Scopri l'abbonamento che fa per te tra le nostre proposte

Already a member? Log in here
Tannery
  • 25 Apr 2019

Leather and innovation: Lineapelle returns to Seoul to explain excellence and new prospects of use

The contact point dates back to last March, when Lineapelle held a series of “promotion and sharing” meetings in Seoul, summarised in the concept #sharinginnovation and characterised by presentations and storytelling activities related to quality, sustainability and the constant innovative evolution of leather and the Italian tannery industry. The next step goes back to these […]

Sustainability
  • 25 Apr 2019

Spain-Italy, there and back: Curtidos Badia, which has an outpost in Tuscany, is the first tannery from Igualada to get the ICEC certification

Curtidos Badia becomes the first tannery in the Igualada district obtain one of ICEC’s certification, the reference entity for leather certifications at an international level. The Cataluña-based company, specialized in the production of materials for the fashion industry, obtained the standard ICE TS 412 for leather traceability for its CLASSIC SNC and MOZART MINI GREDOS goods. This is a further […]

News
  • 25 Apr 2019

Protectionism, Egypt continues with the duty on raw hides: the renewal is for another year and begins on May 2nd

Egypt’s government renewed the duties on raw hides’ exports. The announcement came in recent hours, when the Commerce and Industry minister, Amr Nassar, issueda decree that extends the application of the duties for another year, starting May 2nd, 2019. Amany al-Wassal, trade representative of the ministry explained that “the decision has the goal of creating equilibrium between the supply and […]