Sophie Pantet and her love for made in Italy. In 2019, following her passion for footwear, she founded Sophie Benel Paris. She immediately turned to Italy for collection development and production, which takes place in the Marche. The brand was selected to participate in the latest Micam Milan in the Emerging Designer section. We met...
What are the locks on Louis Vuitton‘s leather jackets and blouses hiding? The leather for summer 2023 that the fashion house brought to the last Paris Fashion Week subverts proportions, changes perspectives. Buckles become dresses, the zip from invisible accessory holds the centrality of attention. And a suitcase tag becomes a bag: new shapes, taken […]
All the numbers, all the strategies of Balenciaga. From the 1.19 billion euros in revenues in 2021, to the production and logistics managed in Italy that distinguish the brand controlled by Kering. The fashion house run by CEO Cédric Charbit, and whose creative director is Demna Gvasalia, is experiencing a boom whose end is hard...
Roberto Cavalli records a 40% increase in sales of footwear and accessories. Overall, Roberto Cavalli and Just Cavalli closed 2022 with a turnover of 84 million euro, equal to a 45% increase on 2021. General manager Ennio Fontana aims to reach 120 million next year also thanks to investments on the retail and distribution chain. […]
Fendi opened the New Factory Shoes in Fermo on October 5th. The brand owned by LVMH invested 12 million euro to modernize the production process. At full capacity, the plant can employ 300 people, from the 120 that could work in Porto San Giorgio. The latter site could now pass to another brand owned by LVMH: […]
Inside Berluti: with leather as the main protagonist. From the choice of material to the cutting, coating and tattooing to personalise the finished product. Berluti has been part of the LVMH stable since 1993. But it has a centuries-old history, dating back to when Alessandro Berluti, originally from Senigallia (Ancona) and who moved to Paris, […]
Nike and The Pitch celebrate the quality of Montebelluna‘s sport shoes in a video. The clip is also being used to launch the football shoes model Tiempo Legend IX Elite MI FG “Made in Italy”. The product, with leather upper, is made inside the laboratory that Nike created in the Sportsystem district. Here the brand produces […]
Like a slap in the face. The finale of Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2023 (which closed on October 4, 2022) had the effect of a blow to the face. Because the irreverent scenarios and unconventional leather woke up the audience, bringing them back down to earth. To walk (literally) in the mud, as in the...
Micro-bags underpin the big numbers of the Jacquemus phenomenon, that will concentrate production in Italy. The brand owned by designer Simon Porte Jacquemus has revealed that exceeded 100 million euros in revenues in 2021, and is preparing to double its sales this year to over 200 million euros. Leather goods generate more than half of […]
Turkish company Desa announced a new leather goods manufacturing site in Tuscany. “To be closer to our clients – explains the CEO Burak Çelet –. We need to work day and night until the end of the year to be able to fulfill all orders from luxury enterprises. One of the leading brands at the moment […]
A programme rich in content, stimuli, opportunities for in-depth analysis and debate. During the last Lineapelle, number 100 (Fieramilano Rho, 20-22 September), the second edition of Green Theatre took place, an open space for talks and seminars with a time limit (half an hour) that put a series of important arguments on the table. This […]
Orders have been placed at the stands at Almaty. The fair La moda italiana@Almaty closed with a positive trend. More so if one considers the current uncertainty of the period and the fact that the fair showcased collections for the summer edition, which is a brief one in Kazakhstan, and in fact summer products are sold...
“Le cuir est femme”, says a famous slogan extolling leather. And in light of the latest Paris Fashion Week, the phrase fits perfectly for Summer 2023. The clothes that paraded on the French catwalks had a common denominator: leather. Mainly black, but not only. Leather was used and moulded (thanks to its natural fickleness) to...
From 20 to 24 September, during and after the 100th edition of Lineapelle, a true fashion festival took place in the centre of Milan, in the context of Spazio Lineapelle. We are talking about Lineapelle Designers Edition, a showcase for young and emerging designers who stand out in the fashion scene for the original and […]
The made in Italy segment is trying to take on the USA. The slowdown of China and the current performance of the US market have brought Italian brands to invest in the United States. This goal for everyone is developing sales by taking advantage of the great potential of the marketplace. They also plan on...
China, a dilemma for everyone. The market that was showing the luxury world its great potential continues to be held back by the zero Covid policy imposed by Beijing. The first half of 2022 ended with a slowdown in sales for all luxury brands, partially offset by better results in June. To understand what is...
Exor has decided to bring the luxury production of the brand Shang Xia to Italy. The investment fund owned by the Agnelli family wants to develop the brand’s business, but “it needs investments and patients”. That is, even considering that while young Chinese consumers prefer local brands, they could still push the brand’s growth. Well-defined […]
Luxury bags have become a “safe haven asset” in their own right. One can understand why, then, the business and financial press approaches the topic with the tools it usually reserves for financial markets. Bloomberg offers 10 tips (5 sure-fire and 5 bets) to those who intend to invest in high-end leather goods. These are...
The relaunch, with simultaneous rebranding, of the Biasia brand has come to fruition. The fashion house has been part of the Neapolitan Miriade group since 2015. And it presented itself during Milan Fashion Week with the new light blue logo (instead of the peacock colour). And with a new it-bag, the Y2K. This bag recalls […]
An exhibit to clarify things. A project that is set up to be a narrative experiment. In other terms: offering a new way to gain experience from all that is within and outside of Italy’s tanning industry. It showcases its excellent quality, its history and, lastly, its beauty. Which is why the name of it […]
