Kane’s supplies, furniture retailers for the home with 18 stores in Florida (USA), has sent letters to 15,000 customers explaining how to request a shopping voucher, the equivalent for sofas sold between 2010 and 2016, to avoid litigation. Because in recent times there have been many dissatisfied customers who have decided to resort to legal […]
Learn how to use the skins of the major wild mammals which are the victim of road accidents. It happens every Saturday at Manitok Thompson House (pictured), an Inuit woman living in Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada. Only in Ontario each year there are 1,100 records of dead wild animals accidentally in road accidents and is […]
Footwear and bags are still getting over a complicated economic situation. Where are they heading for? Hopefully towards better outcomes. Peculiar times for clothing, while automotive is expected to reinforce a positive trend in 2017. Fast pace for small accessories. Waiting for sampling to turn into purchase orders, the three-day-fair opens a window on the […]
Fashion brands slow down. Tough times for niche items as well. That’s the very first 2016 report given out by exhibitors, participating in Lineapelle, specialised for reptile and leather.” Fashion brands have been slowing down, hence demand has gone down, as much as revenues”- says Roberto Franchi (Reptilis, based in Santa Croce sull’Arno, Pisa), supported […]
Rising price trend for cattles at the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017. Quite to worry, as meanwhile customers claim for lower prices for finished leather: hence uncertain profits for tanneries. Not easy to figure it out either. According to tannery representatives, gathered in Milan at Lineapelle92, such trend seems to affect especially high […]
First date on the agenda: March 7, in Paris. Lineapelle, settled together with ITA-ICE agency, takes stage at Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel: Fashion Sustainability will enable to share and assess more closely Lineapelle92 most interesting trends. Focusing on the French market. On March 29,30,31 a group of 60 exhibitors along with Lineapelle will take […]
For the records, over 4,000 course attendees, coming from fashion houses, style offices, artisan business and chemicals companies, and over 3,500 students coming from Fashion schools and professional training centres. Quite some figures over 15 years work. A huge Italian and international turnout then. That’s the score of Lineapelle Training, valuable landmark for leather knowledge: […]
Simac Tanning Tech second day, ended yesterday, firmly reinforces first day good vibrations. According to a number of exhibitors, this year visitors have remarkably increased, both from Italy and abroad. Showing much interest in the new trends presented at the fair. In other words, Simac Tanning Tech is by all means the world most important […]
Technology innovation, environmental sustainability, production efficiency and industry 4.0: key words for Simac Tanning Tech, the exhibition of machinery and technology for footwear, leather goods and tannery. Such words and ideas turn into pragmatic trends and solutions presented by companies at the fair. To begin with, Spray Lab, soon available in the market, created by […]
All’s settled for Lineapelle92 second day, following yesterday brilliant kick-off: in fact, buyers, fashion designers and visitors attendance has been higher than the one on the first day of the past two editions (February and September 2016). A good, reassuring message then, that needs relevant confirmation though, as Milan Fashion Woman runway shows are about […]
Although you have created a worldwide luxury brand giant, although you have sold your own creature to a luxury fashion corporation for 574 million dollars, you can’t stop attending Lineapelle and see, live, the new trends.”That’s why I am here – says Stuart Weitzman, high-end footwear American designer. Here I can meet almost all Italian, […]
High expectations on the fair second day. ”Second day turnout is usually higher – say representatives from Curtidos Parera, the Spanish tannery, based in Valencia, specialised for reptile skins – We do need that, after a very tough 2016. As for new business contacts, coming up at the fair, many international visitors, no Italian deal […]
Italian leather industries’ profits slightly slow down in 2016(-0,5%). Yet on the whole accessories and components annual balance is positive: +2% on the European mean. Especially metallic small parts go up: +4%, still on the European mean. Looking at figures, Spain (+4%), Romania (+7%), France (+8%) and Poland (+10%) have been the best performers. Tough […]
Everything’s ready fort he sixth edition of the national contest “Amici per la pelle”. Secondary school students (second and third year), coming from the Italian main tanning workshops, have been taking part in the contest, which obviously aroused their curiosity and interest in the world of leather tanning. On Thu 23 February over 1,100 students […]
Creativity spreads across Fieramilano Rho, enhanced though – at Lineapelle – by witty young designers, coming from all over the world, that take part in two international top quality contests. The former is “Craft the Leather”, on its fifth edition, organized by the Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale: a number of fashion designers, from […]
Since 1994, ICEC has been acting as a certifying, information and regulatory body, exclusively with regard to leather. They provide services in terms of environmental, ethics and society, economic and product certification. It is Accredia registered for quality management (ISO 9001), environment (ISO 14001 and EMAS), health and safety (OHSAS 18001) and leather provenience (UNI […]
Lineapelle joins the Beauty Expo. A side event, though, since materials and finished product exhibitions don’t go hand in hand timewise. Still Lineapelle, the Italian and international leather top fair, will embellish the “Super Fashion Week “, on the agenda next September. Save the date then: next September, for the first time, Milan Fashion Week […]
“At Lineapelle I have always found, pretty easily, all suppliers I was seeking for my bags, with regard to accessories, prints and skins”, says Jure Stropnik, Slovenian designer, who created in Milan his own accessory brand, IURI: ”At the fair you may come across valuable manufacturers. Last year offers were very good, both in terms […]
Here’s all you need to know about Lineapelle 92nd edition, final day, scheduled tomorrow, 23 February, at Fieramilano Rho, pavilions 9,11,13,15, 22, 24. Opening hours and entrances: you may get in there through East, West and South Gates. Opening hours are 9am-5pm. Trend Areas: in all of them (3) photos and videos are strictly forbidden […]
“I am confident, that is a good start”. Lineapelle first day brings along optimistic expectations among exhibitors. Since the early morning pavilions and stands were fully crowded in fact. Giuseppe Osci’s comment (he is the holder of Conceria Osci, based in Teverola, Caserta) is confirmed by Mrs Luciana, holder of David System tannery (Albaredo D’Adige, […]
