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From April 3rd to 5th 2013 Bologna is the setting for LINEAPELLE the top international exhibition for leather, fabrics, accessories and components. On display the collections for spring-summer 2014. The Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium invites customers and press to visit the stands of its associated tanneries and discover the new collections of  VEGETABLE-TANNED LEATHER… Read more

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

12 original tattoos shooted by Oliviero Toscani represent the 12 months in “Questione di Pelle”, the 2013 Calendar of Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium. Purchase the limited edition calendar

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

Renee Verhoeven is the winner of Craft The Leather project– Edition 2012. She was awarded during the closing evening , on Tuesday October, 9th, at Palazzo Pepoli in Bologna. The winner was declared by a jury, highly qualified, representative of various components of the fashion world: for training: Sue Saunders, Head of Department footwear at… 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