Assomac, thanks also to the support of Agenzia ICE (ITA-Italian Trade Agency), is as always engaged in organizing collectives to support companies in the relevant sector.
In the first edition of 2024 of the IILF – India International Leather Fair, the Assomac – Agenzia ICE (ITA-Italian Trade Agency) collective records the participation of 18 leading Italian companies in the production of machinery, equipment and technologies for the leather industry.
There is a change at the top of IULTCS, the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies, the supranational body that brings together 19 Member Societies and 6 Associate Members representing some 3000 individual members.
As of 1 January 2024, Dr Joan Carles Castell is the new IULTCS President, taking over from Frenchman Jean-Pierre Gualino, who has completed his two-year term.
According to the IULTCS statutes the aims of the Union are to foster cooperation between member societies, to hold congresses to further the advancement of leather science and technology, to form commissions for special studies and to establish international methods of samples and testing leather and materials associated with leather manufacture.
The IULTCS organisation has held 37 congresses in twenty different countries on five continents, with the most recent being held in Chengdu, China in 2023. The next one will be in 2025 in Lyon.
The XVI AICC Veneto Technical Conference will take place on Friday 10 May 2024 entitled ‘New Frontiers of Leather Production’.
The Italian Leather Chemists (AICC) has opened the Call for Papers. Those interested in presenting a paper during the Conference should send an Abstract by 22 March 2024 to the email address [email protected] Papers will be evaluated by the appointed Technical Committee.
An initiative to promote social responsibility in the Italian footwear sector. Assocalzaturifici supports the Social Enterprise “I Bambini delle Fate” in the Rugby Oltre initiative in Lombardy.
A project that aims to use this sports discipline as a means of stimulating and improving motor, cognitive and social skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorder, exploiting the fundamental rules of the game and readjusting them to the needs of the boys and girls who participate in the activity.
Top Repute-organizer of trade shows in China and Vietnam-changes the dates for two of its trade shows:
Dates unchanged for Shoes & Leather Vietnam, which will be July 10 to 12, 2024
The 94th edition of Pitti Immagine Filati (Florence, Fortezza da Basso, Jan. 24-26, 2024) ends with a turnout of 3,000 buyers – including about 1,170 from abroad, 3 percent more than last January.
The show presented yarn collections for the 2025 spring-summer season designed and produced by the best Italian and international spinning mills, with a total of 115 exhibitors. In the ranking of international attendance, France, Great Britain, Germany, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States, Spain, mainland China, Japan and the Netherlands were at the top.
It is precisely the sharp increase in Asian buyers (South Korea and China-Hong Kong should be added to the aforementioned countries) that is perhaps the element that characterized this round of the fair.
The Wortmann Group company shoe.com GmbH & Co. KG was successful before the Higher Regional Court of Cologne. In the judgment of 26.01.2024 (Ref. 6 U 29/23), the Higher Regional Court of Cologne revoked the judgment of the lower court of 11.05.2023, in which the Regional Court of Cologne prohibited shoe.com GmbH & Co. KG from selling 2 sandal models that were said to violate Birkenstock’s copyrights. The Higher Regional Court of Cologne was convinced that the copyrights had not been sufficiently demonstrated and proven. “We are pleased that the court has followed our legal opinion,” said Jens Beining, CEO of Wortmann Schuh-Holding KG, shortly after the judgment was announced. The judgment is not yet final and can be legally appealed to the Federal Supreme Court.
An increasingly united community to grow the international shoe and bag business the one that attended the 100th edition of Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags.
To celebrate the fair’s 50-year history, the entire footwear world gathered in Riva del Garda. 16 trade associations representing all major manufacturing countries gathered to discuss crucial issues for the industry.
The coming hot season, that of spring/summer 2025, will be marked by a distinct focus on natural elements, by a focus on the kind of memory built on cultural blends typical of our times, and by a future that could be forged by artificial intelligence.
What does this all mean? That a sneaker might return to nature through washed-out fabrics reminiscent of a desert after the storm, frayed rather than dusty.
But that same sneaker could feature hyper-reflective materials and have the typical appearance of a portrait from the future. Well-textured and with materials reminiscent of surfaces from distant planets. And it is amazing how ever that sneaker could be redesigned, reinvented and reimagined as if artificial intelligence had designed it. Taste then would shift to creations that look to the past but also hide a surprising touch of the present.
For it is precisely A.I. that is the perfect tool for blending worlds distant in space, culture and time, and generating astonishing novelty. On the wall where the tones of 2025 are brushed, you will find a color aesthetic that ranges from urban Afro and Latin to synthetic hyperrealism, and then crosses over into the transparencies of sporty well-being.
The Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, explained very well the challenges facing the fashion world with respect to the issue of sustainability:
“We are facing a polarized market, with on the one hand the exponential growth of luxury, and on the other a trend toward a strong acceleration of fast-fashion, creating a scenario of great complexity. There are many challenges that consumers face in choosing green options, such as lack of collections, high prices, and scarcity of information on product sustainability.”
It is precisely these challenges that we discuss in this issue devoted in particular to two important events that have highlighted difficulties and opportunities that the sector must face or seize in order to continue on the virtuous path that has undoubtedly already moved several steps forward, as witnessed by the initiatives put in place by many companies.
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