“The supply chain needs to be streamlined in order to reduce costs”. So says Marco Palmieri (pictured), CEO of Piquadro, in an interview with La Conceria. Palmieri also expresses concern over the lack of generational turnover within manufacturing companies and calls for government intervention to help improve the situation. The supply chain needs streamlining “I...
While shoe factories are trudging along, between layoffs and low orders, the Seishou brand has just opened a site in Tuscany, in the San Miniato area. The need of the brand is to have full control of production, but the news runs opposite to the general trend in Italian manufacturing. The brand, born five years...
A “deep crisis, but Made in Italy can reclaim its leading role through vision, supply chain integration and targeted investments”. This is the key message delivered by Mauro Bergozza (pictured left), President of Assomac. He stressed the vital importance of technology as an engine of innovation in this phase of active resistance. Assomac — the...
Luxury is in a storm: there is no shortage of geopolitical tensions, falling markets and other issues. And of course, there are lower sales, turnover, profits and even employees, in production and in sales. So much so, in fact, that even LVMH is worried, and along with Kering, seems to be accumulating concerns. Industry analysts...
Pitti Uomo: a two-speed edition. The event, which ended on Friday at Florence’s Fortezza da Basso (17–20 June 2025), saw strong attendance during the first two days but a sharp drop-off in visitors over the latter half — not least due to a public transport strike announced for Friday. As of Thursday afternoon, after two...
Despite the crisis, major brands continue to invest in French manufacturing chain. Chanel is expanding its production capacity by working with the Camille Fournet company, which on June 18 inaugurated a new leather goods factory dedicated to the brand. Meanwhile, Hermès is laying the foundations for a new site. Investing in French manufacturing Camille Fournet...
Understanding how Artificial Intelligence can serve as a genuine tool for enhancing the competitiveness of Italian SMEs in the leather supply chain. Debunking myths. Opening up new avenues for discussion and future perspectives. After its March stop in Fermo, the project “Lineapelle on the road – Trame Intelligenti: Weaving Fashion and AI” arrived on Wednesday...
In the first quarter of 2025, international trade of hides and leather shows mixed signals between Europe and Latin America. Spanish tanning declines, ad in the Iberian country the tanning sector shows a worsening export balance, especially in the segments of raw and tanned leathers, while only semi-tanned leathers grow. Imports, on the other hand,...
“Excluding hides and leather or greatly simplify the EUDR“, because the obligations imposed by the Anti-Deforestation Regulation are heavy and, in many cases, unworkable burden on Italian and EU tanneries. And because they are an undue burden, since leather is not a driver of deforestation. This is how one can summarize the message that Antonio […]
Cuoio di Toscana marks its 40th anniversary during a prolonged economic downturn. How is the leather sector responding to this challenge? The sector is undergoing a period of transformation. However, the tanneries within our Consortium are tackling the challenge with the determination and resilience built over forty years of hard work. We are focusing on...
The perfect location for an event that promises to be the first of a long series. On Friday, June 13, the first edition of the Italian Leather Research Summit 2025 was held at the Engineering History Library of the Federico II University of Naples, organized by SSIP, aka the Experimental Station for the Leather Industry....
Fashion is seeking substance. There’s a buzz in the air at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, among the booths of Pitti Uomo (17–20 June). The menswear fair got off to a strong start, with particularly high footfall on the second day. “It’s the key day, when the largest number of visitors come through”, they...
Jonathan Anderson’s appointment as creative director of Dior had been rumoured for some time, yet still managed to catch many by surprise. Not just for the timing, but for the scale of the decision: it marks the first time the maison has entrusted women’s, men’s, and haute couture collections to a single creative director. Explaining...
“Price increases? No problem. We’re not expensive”. In other words: we cost what we’re worth. So says Gildo Zegna, CEO of the eponymous group (pictured right in the Imagoeconomica photo), in an interview with MF Fashion, given during an event in Dubai where the brand recreated the Oasi Zegna in the foyer of the Opera...
Chanel has appointed a new creative lead for handbags, small leather goods, accessories, and eyewear — an important addition to the team supporting Matthieu Blazy, who has been at the creative helm of the French fashion house for nearly six months. The new designer Blazy has chosen to join him is, like himself, a former […]
For the past 15 years, Bandit Manchot has been using surplus leather from designer labels for its products. The French brand, which manufactures exclusively in Graulhet, is run by three women: Marie-Christine Frison (pictured left), Marie-Laure Bisond (centre), and Anne Duquesnoy (right). The name Bandit Manchot refers to the one-armed lever used to operate a...
“Leather is natural and circular. The sustainability of the material is a value to be supported and communicated”, said Manuel Ríos, owner of Inpelsa and president of Cotance (in photo at the center), at the opening of the proceedings. “Especially when the Commission is so attentive to the green economy, but then rules based on...
The fact that Western auto brands suffer competition from those in the People’s Republic doesn’t necessarily mean OEMs are suffering from the same problem. On the contrary. Big components’ suppliers can make friends with the Chinese, and a glance at first-quarter 2025 results says that it’s from emerging businesses like BYD, that the resources to […]
The results of Colombia’s footwear exports in the first quarter of 2025 are encouraging, according to the industry association ACICAM. Foreign revenue rose by 3.8% year-on-year, with a strong performance in the United States, which is also a key buyer of leather goods. For this reason, ACICAM is calling for investment in the leather sector’s […]
Chanel has launched Nevold, a company dedicated to developing solutions that give a second life to waste materials, as well as unsold or outdated products. Among its first achievements are a recycled leather alternative that can replace plastic in reinforcements for handbags and shoes. Chanel launches Nevold Nevold is a contraction of “never old”. It...
