Mistakes are inevitable but fixable. “It’s impossible to control every single stage of every single product on your own. The important thing, when mistakes are made, is to examine them, take action, and correct them”, said Ermenegildo “Gildo” Zegna, CEO of the Italian luxury group, responding to a question about the Made in Italy supply […]
Former Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri joins Armani’s board, along with other well-known names who strengthen the Milanese group’s governance. Meanwhile, Kering CEO Luca de Meo continues to poach top executives from Renault, naming the new CFO for Gucci. Pollini, on the other hand, appoints the general manager. Bizzarri joins Armani’s board The Giorgio Armani group […]
There has been a change at the top of the Vicenza-based company, a leading supplier of industrial machinery for leather finishing. Gemata has announced the appointment of Giulio Mandruzzato as its new CEO, taking over from Gianni Maitan. The company has described the news as “an important generational and leadership transition at the helm of […]
In the Segromigno footwear district in the province of Lucca, signs of recovery are beginning to emerge, but companies need to change both methods and mindset. So says Serena Cecchini (pictured left), president of the business network Tuscany 4 Shoes (T4S), founded in 2021 as a consortium to enhance the potential of local firms. “I...
This past Thursday, GreenPlanner and Lineapelle chose to reward the young talents of the IUAD Academy, reaffirming a shared commitment: sustainability and creativity must advance together. This competition dedicated to small leather goods and accessories asked students to breathe new life into offcuts of leather and hide, transforming waste into objects capable of telling new...
After more than four decades in business, Dofin — one of Uruguay’s most significant tanneries — has gone bankrupt. The company has filed for voluntary insolvency. This decision, formalised by the courts on 3 November, triggered provisional administration, asset liquidation and the removal of the company’s directors. The League for the Defence of Trade Unions […]
With a majority vote in the plenary session on November 26, the European Parliament approved the Council’s proposal to postpone the entry into force of the EUDR by one year. After the autumn dance, we finally know when EU companies will have to comply with the Anti-Deforestation Regulation. This will be December 30, 2026, for […]
Mauro Talamonti’s photography is always an act of crossing: of places, of bodies, of surfaces, of tensions. Un Velo di Pelle, this tension converges into a series of essential images, created entirely in the studio in collaboration with Brutus, the Turin-based leatherwear brand. Talamonti reinterprets an experimental material — a genuine natural hide rendered translucent […]
Sometimes excess can be reclaimed, and the superfluous can become living material. This is where LA-BÒ Milano takes shape: a project that transforms forgotten leather into bags. Those stockpiles lying in the warehouses of Italian tanneries — the very same that supply the major luxury maisons — are given a new life. Visualmade, a design...
JBS and Viva are merging in the name of leather. The result is the Brazilian super-group JBS Viva: 31 facilities and more than 11,000 employees across Brazil, Italy, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico and Vietnam. The new company will process over 20 million hides a year. Here are the terms and reactions surrounding the deal, which […]
It is downsizing in Austria, where Wollsdorf Leder is laying off 150 of its 371 employees, and is shifting its focus to production in Mexico, where in 2017 the tannery group invested EUR 40 million to build a manufacturing plant. It is a consequence of the European automotive downturn rippling through the supply chain — […]
Luxury remains resilient, but not immune. The sector has lost 70 million customers since its 2022 peak: it now counts 330 million clients, the same level as in 2013. It is heading towards the close of 2025 with overall revenues stable. Footwear and handbags are underperforming compared with other segments of the luxury market, which...
Collagen recovery, digital design, circularity in circularity, and new business models: these are the themes that animated today’s event at the Russo tannery in Casandrino. The event MICS – Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile (Circular and Sustainable Made in Italy) is an extended partnership financed by MUR with PNRR funds, the largest investment ever […]
From zero to 32 employees in 18 months. The word “crisis” stays outside the doors of Lissatura, company based in Corridonia (Macerata), which is still recruiting staff to meet orders coming mainly from luxury brands. “The secret? There are two: industrializing a specific phase of the process, and thinking and acting like a seller, not...
Next stop: February 2026. To be precise, from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13. The location is Fiera Milano Rho, in the same halls used last September (1–3, 2–4, 5–7). These are the coordinates of Lineapelle 107, which — as stated in a press note — “aims to strengthen its identity as a space for creative development, stylistic direction and commercial exchange for a […]
A meeting of excellences. The design, innovation and promotion of Italian style embodied by Lineapelle, and the creative energy of Antwerp — the Belgian city recognised as one of the world’s fashion capitals, where contemporary boundaries open onto new horizons of creativity and style. On Thursday 13 November, Lineapelle delivered a kind of lectio magistralis at The Mills. […]
Following the success of the first edition, the educational-creative workshop (Hi)story / (Re)source / Project(ed) returns. In other words, the result of a collaboration between Designskolen Kolding and Lineapelle, which reinvents opera with leather. From November 17 to December 20, 2025, students from the Fashion, Accessories, and Textiles courses will be asked to reinterpret the costumes […]
The secret file prepared by De Meo to treat Gucci and Kering. It is titled “ReconKering Memo_06.10.2025”, and Kering’s CEO Luca De Meo drafted it and sent it to several of the group’s managers ahead of the meeting held on Friday 14 November. Panorama managed to obtain the file and make it public. It is effectively the first extract — also picked...
Johnny Coca is no longer the designer responsible for accessories and leather goods at Louis Vuitton. Coca is undoubtedly one of the world’s leading specialists in handbag design. He had been at LVMH’s flagship brand for five and a half years. His future direction remains unknown. Coca steps down from his role as accessories designer Since 2020, Johnny […]
Fashion in 2026: a worsening scenario (partly due to tariffs) with consumers having other purchasing priorities. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is shifting from a competitive advantage to a business necessity, forcing fashion companies to make their main goal, for next year, to adapt to this new context. This is the picture painted by the report The State...
