26 March 2025

 Vegetable-tanned leather, Boldrini new president

Consortium handover: “Ours is more than a technique, it's culture”

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20 March 2025

Fashion consumption to hold in 2024 but return to pre-Covid postponed to 2026

In the webinar on 4 March ‘Scenarios and forecasts 2025-26. Fashion consumption and Gen Z’, Sita Ricerca illustrated some data and consumption trends of the fashion sector collected through its consolidated Fashion Consumer Panel.

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20 March 2025

Omnibus Package: the Italian supply chain is ready

Francesca Rulli, 4SUSTAINABILITY® - Ympact, analyses the risks and opportunities for the fashion sector linked to the approval of the package simplifying  corporate sustainability rules.

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18 March 2025

The first monographic homage exhibition to Cristóbal Balenciaga in Italy

An exhibition highlighting his contemporaneity through a creative dialogue with the world of Spanish footwear.

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18 March 2025

Fashion: against the crisis, politics must play its part

At the ‘Dialogue on the Fashion Sector’ meeting on 12 March in Rome, entrepreneurs and trade unionists discussed the sector's bad moment, emphasising that Italy remains the ‘manufacture of Europe’ for quality production, and the need to preserve this heritage.

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3 March 2025

Leather Naturally presents the Guide to LCA

A handbook that aims to help the leather industry

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20 February 2025

A suffering 2024 for Italian menswear

According to a note by the Economic Studies Office of Confindustria Moda, after three years of continuous growth, sales are down -3.6 percent. With reference to individual micro-compartments, all are affected by negative dynamics, with the exception of leather clothing.

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17 February 2025

Slight growth in German footwear sales in the domestic market

In an increasingly difficult competitive environment, the budget of German shoe factories for the year 2024 shows lights and shadows.

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12 February 2025

Italian leather goods: export decline and domestic market stall

According to the Report by Centro Studi di Confindustria Accessori Moda for Assopellettieri, in the first 9 months of 2024 exports dropped (-9.7% in value, with -12.5% for leather handbags) and the domestic market remained stagnant (-0.5%), with heavy effects on turnover and physical production.

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12 February 2025

Italian footwear: export (-9.2%) and turnover (-9.7%) slow down in the first 9 months

The report by the Study Center of Confindustria Accessori Moda for Assocalzaturifici shows how, the effect of the post-Covid rebound having ended and after a 2023 of substantial stability (at least in value), 2024 closes with negative signs in all the main variables.

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