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

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

Renee Verhoeven (from ArtEZ): I see myself as an experimentative designer, preferably playing with the boundaries of materials. Veg tanned Leather, for me is a wonderful material because it can be treated in so incredibly many ways. It reacts to a various circumstances and can be influenced by things like heat. These facts about a… Read more

Oliviero Toscani Studio, in association with the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, presents the third edition of the prestigious annual ‘Pelle+’ competition and calls upon open submissions for new project proposals of fashion accessories made of vegetable-tanned leather, where vegetable-tanned leather can be used exclusively or in combination with other materials suggested by participants to… Read more

The Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, together with Oliviero Toscani, organized the second edition of the International Desing Contest PELLE+ for new planning proposals of products for different uses made of vegetable-tanned leather. The Consortium was looking for fresh projects, surprising ideas mixing the contemporary view of modern design with the tradition of vegetable tanning… Read more

Many partecipants from various parts of the world and many original and creative projects for the second edition of the international design contest Pelle+ 2011 promoted by the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium. Among them 13 finalists have been selected and are now eligible for the final victory. The 13 finalists will be evaluated by… Read more

The Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani Studio, organises the second edition of the international design contest Pelle+ calling for new planning proposals of products for different uses made of vegetable-tanned leather. It can be used alone or in combination with any other materialfreely proposed by the competitors. The contemporary references… Read more

The Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium, together with La Sterpaia – Art workshop for Communication directed by Oliviero Toscani, organises the first edition of the International Design Contest Pelle+ for new planning proposals of products for different uses made with vegetable-tanned leather. The Consortium is looking for unique, surprising, even eccentric projects, able to… Read more