The fairs that, together with Lineapelle and Simac Tanning Tech, complete the exhibition horizon of the global fashion and luxury industry: Micam, Mipel, TheOneMilano. But it doesn’t end here because September closes…
On 30 June 2023, Bolt Threads put Mylo, the mycelium-derived material championed by Stella McCartney that was supposed to supplant leather, on standby. But no. And the reason for its failure is…
According to the ECA report entitled ‘Circular Economy – Despite EU Action, the Transition in Member States is slow’. In fact, it is almost at a standstill in many European countries. A…
Luxury super-produces relentlessly, designs and opens factories mainly between Italy and France that, says Louis Vuitton CEO (Pietro Beccari), ‘will dominate the high-end for centuries’. Let’s take stock of this unbridled race…
Hire big, hire fast. The great luxury challenge is not only to manage increased production needs. It is also its direct consequence: mass recruitment of young human resources, trained or to be…
In France and Italy, the production sites of luxury brands are almost all located far from the big cities, almost as if producing luxury were a provincial affair: this is not by…
But do those who are genuinely sustainable exist? In our opinion, no, and precisely based on this presumption, greenwashing has become a more or less explicit tool for those who claim to…
The love between fashion, luxury, and celluloid has always been fatal, but now it has entered a new dimension. Fashion now makes cinema. Because fashion designers and the brands they create for…
Their names are Patrick Whitaker and Keir Malem, and since 1988 they have been transforming leather into clothes and costumes for the cinema and beyond with their manual skills. “We have always…
The edition of Lineapelle scheduled from 19 to 21 September aims to be an evolutionary vehicle capable of opening up to a ‘multiverse of possibilities, opportunities, relationships’. It will do so through…