Blog Pelle al Vegetale English

Thursday, January 10th, 2013, at 6:30 p.m., at the former Courthouse in Florence, Oliviero Toscani and Consortium’s President, Simone Remi, awarded 2012 competition’s winner: Edoardo Passi. Born in Milan in 1986, after earning a classical high school diploma, he studied Industrial Design and Communication at ISIA in Faenza. Edoardo has already experienced the field of… Read more

GENUINE ITALIAN VEGETABLE TANNED LEATHER CONSORTIUM  PRESENTS THE 2013 CALENDAR BY OLIVIERO TOSCANI In times of recession there’s only one place that’s worth investing: your own body. People increasingly tattoo themselves to express their personality and nature: a tattoo is a mask of own lousy and not accepted physical identity. Oliviero Toscani According to architect… Read more

The technical Jury  selected the participants for the final phase of the third edition of the International Design Competition Pelle+. Theme of competition is the elaboration and development of projects in the field of fashion accessories: from bags to belts, from jewels to leather goods, in every version varying from classical to eccentric, provided that all creations… Read more

Last  November 15th, 2012 th Genuine Italian Veg-tanned leather Consortium has introduced at the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo, Questione di Pelle: a whole day dedicated to the veg-tanned leather in Tuscany. The awaited event, organised in cooperation with ICE -  Italian Trade Promotion Agency, has combined product to cultural aspects, fashion content to… Read more

Wen Wen Wang (from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology) : Good leather is the result of good tanning, Vegetable Tanned leather is a job well done.  

Meng Ying Liang (fromBeijing Institute of Fashion Technology) Making my bags using vegetable tanned leather was an exciting emotional experience, full of contrasts of familiar and strange, ordinary and unexpected.    

Hee Hyung Cho (from Polimoda) : Vegetable tanned leather is for me – adventure and exploration… because when I find an inspiration… after I have to find material and new techniques… so…for me…such a beautiful adventure and exploration… It is… leather makes me creative

Giulia Leonardi (from Polimoda): Veg-tanned leather has intrinsic “sensorial” properties, unique to the sense of touch, of smell and of sight. No leather looks like any other: wrinkles, tones, colour, thickness and softness change but it’s not an imperfection, rather a guarantee of naturalness and  artisan craft. Without chemically processed finishing, in fact, colours slowly… Read more

Mark Sturkenboom (from Artez Arnhem): The different intricate qualities of this leather opens up a new window for me. I did not know before that veg tanned leather was so good accepted by the human body. A huge game changer. It is possible to use this leather directly onto the body because it breathes and… Read more

Fflur Cadwaladr Owen (from Royal College of Art) Traditional crafts and skills have been a passion of mine for years, and so combining my skills with an honest and organic product, the vegetable-tanned leather worked well. Having not been over treated, the leather hide varies in texture and carries scars and blemishes from the animal’s… Read more