He takes leather bags apart and analyzes them to understand their value, and then he tells all about it in videos that go viral. Content creator and almost a leather science popularizer, Volkan Yilmaz, better known as Tanner Leatherstein, is among the 500 most influential people in the fashion world. The influencer, who has more […]
“Leather stimulates creativity”, says Israeli designer Tamar Elbaz, 26, fresh winner of the first prize of the International Lab of Mittelmoda and the Italian Leather prize offered by Lineapelle. In October 2023, she also won the competition “Real Leather. Stay Different” ex aequo with Ana Del Rio Mullarkey. Tamar finished her Fashion Design studies at...
Understanding the moment we are living in and identifying countermeasures to a crisis that, to all intents and purposes, “is structural”. We did this during Lineapelle, together with the president of the Milan show, Gianni Russo (Russo di Casandrino). Following his words, we came to define three factors that are essential, today, for a tannery...
“There is no crisis in luxury. Those who has grown very much or raised prices too much are in crisis”. In other words: only a certain kind of luxury is in crisis. Or so says Philipp Plein, the designer at the head of the homonymous company, whom we met during the recent edition of Micam...
After Tesla, the strength of leather also convinced Telfar. The brand, which has also built its success with bags made of next-gen material (its tote has been dubbed the “Bushwick Birkin”), is launching its first leather bag. The aim is clear: to elevate its positioning and wink at luxury consumers with decidedly more affordable prices. […]
Visonà is growing thanks to Italy. The Vicenza-based leather goods company, founded in 1959 by Plinio Visonà, today it is led by his two children, Mara and Davide, and the third generation is on the way. With 20 internal employees – and another 60 people involved in the induced activities – the brand is growing,...
From foundation to black crisis, through tumultuous growth. All in little more than two years. The story of SAL pelletteria is as young as its two founders, brothers Salvatore (30) and Antonio (29) Laino. Who, in 2021, picking up the tradition of a family that has worked in leather manufacturing for five generations, set up...
Gucci and Sabato De Sarno return to the Triennale for the Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show. The collection presented on 20 September 2024 is not so different from past ones, but once again outlines a method. Attention to detail, whispered glamour and accessories that will hopefully become iconic. It is now clear that a revival operation...
Bottega Veneta, Ferragamo, Bally: at Milan Fashion Week, brands are in a quiet version and above all, they focus on product: lots of product, no fussing. This is the leitmotif of the collections that crowded Milan’s fashion kermesse, which left the baton to Paris (scheduled from 23 September to 1 October). The last to show...
Pierpaolo Piccioli is ready to return to work. Not at Chanel, where some counted him among the candidates, but at the helm of Fendi. The news is not yet official, but rumors are strong and insistent. Rumors causing even more questions to arise: who will they entrust Chanel to? And how will Kim Jones be...
“At the table opened with the government, we are thinking about requesting more extensive social shock absorbers from January, similar to those implemented during the Covid emergency”. Talking to Il Sole24Ore, Claudia Sequi, owner of Pelletterie Claudia and president of Assopellettieri, just rattles off a few numbers to explain why the Italian manufacturing fabric industry […]
The American Embassy in London hosted the celebration of the fourth edition of Real Leather. Stay Different: International Student Design Competition. Here’s who won. Who won the fourth edition Four categories. Four winners, plus one. In other words: one of them received the “prize of prizes.” Here is who won. Apparel: Mor Elfassy (Shenkar College...
Supply chain stress also strikes Spain: there is no rescue for Tenerías Omega. The Villatuerta tannery has decided that the only possible conclusion, to the current situation, is to close the business, with the consequent dismissal of all 79 employees, who will be laid off starting September 2 until December 31. In Navarre In Villatuerta,...
Over 9,000 admissions for Simac Tanning Tech, with a significant share of attendance coming from abroad. The synergy with Lineapelle is working. What doesn’t work, but it’s not news, is the market. On the basis of these considerations, the 50th edition of the fair organized by Assomac nevertheless managed to draw a positive furrow. The […]
104 editions and one certainty: to be for the supply chain “an investment in the future”. Lineapelle, which ended on Thursday, September 19, at Fiera Milano Rho, knew it had to deal with an economic situation “characterised by complex uncertainty and structural forecasting difficulties”. And, perhaps, precisely for this reason – in a sort of...
The suspicion was sound (very sound), but now, as people say, science confirms it: the European Commission, by including cow hides among the commodities subject to the EUDR regulation, will not save trees. Not a single one. For the simple reason that, as the study by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa has shown, tanning...
Cotance, which has promoted the project since 2022, and its partners, can rejoice: The Leather Traceability Cluster, which met at Lineapelle 104 (pictured), is close to reaching the goal. The shared agreement (and subsequent verification) on the essential requirements and means of verification to trace the origin of leather may be finalized by the end […]
The vintage look never goes out of fashion; on the contrary, it comes back. It seems a truism, but it is not. The cyclical nature of fashion is an established phenomenon, but the return to retro, to materials and workmanship that simulate the use and signs of time, is a real trend. And this becomes...
If the recovery of the fashion market will come – as many say – from the very tip of the iceberg, (the high-end segment) the niche of exotic leather could be the first to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, because in the polarization of the luxury market, the use of...
It seems the market has convinced those at Tesla to start using leather again. A few gathered clues tell us that Elon Musk’s automaker (which abandoned the material in 2015 by opening up to the nonsense equivalence that “the electric car is better if it’s vagan”) is already using the material and that, in the...
