We all know that marketing departments compete to see who has the most sustainable product. What is needed, then, to find your way around the many materials that claim to be eco/green/friendly or free, is a tool to understand their true composition. Because claiming to be bio-based is one thing, but being bio-based is quite […]
BMB Manifattura Borse, in Scandicci, acquired 70% of Pelletteria Bergamini1960. Which in turns owns Maromed 1992, business with a commercial office in San Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna) and the production site in Tunis (Tunisia). The operation was “in relevant part” by the emission of a 72-months corporate bond, but the precise sum wasn’t disclosed. The “entirety” of […]
d“The contact with leather and its smell bring me back to my childhood when I used to play in my father’s laboratory”. It’s a matter of imprinting, what Mara Visonà, daughter of Plinio, founder of the Vicenza-based leather goods company, tells us about in this interview. The entity employs, counting third parties as well, gives...
Mulberry‘s brand awareness investments are working. And the British brand is doing better than expected. On March 29, the brand anticipated that revenues for the 2021-2022 financial year (which closes on April 2) will be better than last forecast. Profit will also be “moderately higher” than expected. Better than expected In a short communication, Mulberry […]
Not only donations. The leather industry expresses its solidarity with the Ukrainian population in various ways. For example, adhering to the appeal that CNMI (Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana) has made to all its members, some companies in the leather area have decided to support UNHCR, the United Nations agency for refugees. Others have offered...
There are (forgotten) sanctions that block potential alternative markets. The Iran Mall, for example, is one of the largest shopping centres in the world, boasting 700 shops, a museum, an art gallery, a mega bookshop and a modern 2,000-seat cinema. It was to be not only the cradle of Italian-made fashion, but also the symbol...
Silvateam, world leader in the production of natural tannins, has created the first bio-circular shoe. The project is called Ecotan Shoes and combines the company’s sustainable tanning technology with an innovative design philosophy. A philosophy that allows brands to close the sustainability circle. A year later “It has been over a year – explains Silvateam […]
Paul Andrew rejects material derived from mushrooms. He tested it for his new line of shoes, he says. But during the assembly phase of the shoe, it tore. “If you put a product out there that is not durable and disintegrates, you have to throw it away, so it’s not sustainable,” explains the former creative...
Direct exports towards Russia and Ukraine mainly impact specific districts and segments, such as: footwear, leather goods and textiles. Stress on raw materials involving jewelry, textiles, and tanning, all while energy prices may further increase based on retaliations by Russians on gas supply. Cirillo Marcolin, president of Confindustria Moda, analyzes the impacts from the war in […]
Sergio Rossi grows with Lanvin Group. In 2021, the revenue of the shoe manufacturers based in San Mauro di Pascoli grew by 18% compared to 2020 and the forecasts say the brand will reach 130 million within the next 5 years. All part of the ambitious goal of the group to become China’s LVMH. The...
Leather and real rust. Metaverse and sustainability. These are the four pillars of the Ruggine project presented at Mipel by debutant brand Cristiano Torricelli. Leather bags and bikers decorated with CTRust processing. In other words: real oxidised rust, anchored to the leather and then protected by a special film. A technique protected by patent. The […]
The Burwood shoes from the Off-White for Church’s collaboration went on sale on March 24. Virgil Abloh defined the project as the “remastering of a classic”. The collection includes two pairs of shoes, both designed by Abloh in one of the last collaborations he personally oversaw. So far, only one pair of footwear has been […]
“I want to invite influential and creative people to come and have a picnic with us. I don’t need money. I need their energy flows. Their vision and interpretation of the brand”. Words from Oliver Reichert, CEO of Birkenstock since 2012, who relies on collaborations to prevent “the company from becoming a mausoleum”. Which seems...
The appointment is set, the dates are in the diary. The next edition of Lineapelle will take place at Fieramilano Rho from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 September 2022. And it will not be an edition like the others because it is the one in which the “business experience that has become a reference point […]
Combining leather goods with the production of shoes for designer brands. A complete service idea for the luxury world transformed into reality by Antonio Filograna Sergio in Casarano, Apulia, with the creation of Manifattura Salento AF. Thus, just a few steps away from Leo Shoes and Antonio Filograna, the third production unit of the group...
Specialised workers wanted. The shoe industry of Riviera del Brenta loudly reiterates the need to find skilled labour. It is doing so in a particular period, in which not only has this primary need not found a solution, but, to some extent, has amplified its effects. Those who are experienced and make their skills available […]
“When I was 20 years old, working in the sector was not socially rewarding. Now it’s different. Young people are calling us. It means that work in leather goods is appreciated by the new generations”. So says Leonardo Calistri, who is 40 years old (in the photo to the right, at Mipel). Together with his […]
It starts with a big break with the past: the location will be Florence and the month will be June. On Tuesday, June 7th, 2022, Chanel’s Métiers d’art fashion show will take place in Florence. Why did they choose the Tuscan capital? There are historical reasons. The brand has a strong link with Italy, where […]
“Acquiring tanneries? In principle, yes, because we also want to go upstream in the supply chain. But we don’t have the specific knowledge”. These are the words of Claudio Rovere, CEO of Hind (pictured). Hind is a holding company that invests in the capital of small and medium-sized companies with the aim of encouraging growth,...
There are factors that make leather a unique material. They are often taken for granted. Often, unfortunately, they are not known or, worse, are deliberately and instrumentally ignored. Sometimes interviews like this one remind us of them. Speaking is Gordian Tork, President of Uniters Group (left photo). What does Uniters do? It doesn’t sell leathers, […]
