Six faces, six characters to tell a difficult, complex, worrying year. 2019. You will find them in the following pages
COVER
The focus remains green: if what we are experiencing now is the environmental revolution of various industries, then everybody expects the improvement to be made in this area
Innovation Training (July 9th-15th) brought european tanners to find out the research excellence of Boston and New York. It seems like a far away world, but it isn’t
Some among the protagonists of the Innovation Training tell their experience. At Lineapelle (October 2-4) the Innovation Square is laying the foundation for the future
Leather and its processing are intrinsically disruptive, because they are circular by definition. and Lineapelle 97 presents an area specifically dedicated to this virtue explains wh
Vegan marketing is coming to the four wheel industry too: the goal is to absorb electric cars into its idea of sustainability. But the market is far more complex than propaganda
All those that believe that the new auto market, the one of hybrid and electric cars, is leather free, is largely mistaken. Green and synthetic aren’t synonyms, warn tanners. While regardless of what is said by polemicists, leather’s sustainability is a fact
The boundary is quite fleeting. In certain cases, it doesn’t even exist anymore. For cars, fashion and accessories the word of order is contamination. And these examples tell it In a particularly significant way
It’s “the type of thing that makes a vehicle different”. What this “thing” is and why it has this type of power, is explained by somebody that knows a lot about car interiors (as James Bond can confirm)
In Hong Kong, the Global Footwear Executive Summit, held on March 12th, tries to analyse and find the countermeasures of the many “perfect storms” that are stringing the footwear world. And discover that the solution maybe is only one
Mass customization promises to liberate the production process from the seasonality of collections and at the same time freeing the whole fashion chain from the “stock” risk, supplying tailor-made footwear to clients. “Now is the time”
Traditionally associated to manual know-how, the process of the leather-textile-footwear chain is undergoing change under the force of the fourth industrial revolution. A European project explains which types of professional figures the industry needs
The renunciation of exotic leathers is it a responsible gesture? It is not, because they are jeopardizing conservation projects and bringing local communities to their knees. “That of Chanel is a lazy choice”: Daniel Natusch of IUCN explains why
Elvis & Kresse is a leather goods brand founded in 2015 in the United Kingdom with the Mission of re-using materials. Since 2017, the brand has partnered up with Burberry on a project that brings new life to the chain’s waste products
From tanning waste material to the ipo. Sicit 2000’s journey shows how the leather industry creates value (at 360 degrees) even from the waste it produces
