Discovering the Italian leather supply chain

• LINEAPELLE NEW YORK (July 17-18, 2024) hosts the talk “Behind the Scenes: The True Value of the Italian Leather Industry”
• Wednesday, July 17, 3:30 pm Metropolitan Pavilion, second floor, 125 west, 18th street, 10011 New York

Discover the excellence of the Italian leather supply chain and its strategic importance for the global fashion, luxury, and design industries.

During LINEAPELLE NEW YORK (the reference exhibition for the North American fashion industry), scheduled for July 17 and 18, 2024, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan, the talk "Behind the Scenes: The True Value of the Italian Leather Industry" will take place.

The talk will feature Fulvia Bacchi, CEO of Lineapelle, General Manager of UNIC – Concerie Italiane, Stefano Giacomelli, Vice President of Assopellettieri, Orietta Pelizzari Global Fashion Consultant, and Thomaï Serdari Professor of Marketing, Director of Luxury & Retail MBA at New York University. The talk will be moderated by Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Zaczkiewicz, is the Executive Editor of Strategic Content Development at WWD. He was formerly Deputy Editor of Data and Analysis at WWD and has published a variety of data-driven reports, market analysis stories, breaking news, and industry insights. Zaczkiewicz’s journalism career includes over two decades of business reporting and editing.

The Italian leather supply chain is renowned for the value, innovation, and sustainability of its project. Thanks to the combination of tradition and modernity, flexibility and creativity, it is an international leader in terms of absolute production reliability and the quality of services it provides to a constantly evolving global market.

The discussion, promoted by LINEAPELLE and ASSOPELLETTIERI, aims to promote, explore, and deepen all the features that make the Italian leather supply chain unique in the world: the ideal reference for all brands seeking expertise, quality, and creativity. "Behind the Scenes: The True Value of the Italian Leather Industry" is a must-attend event to discover how the Italian leather supply chain can make a difference for American brands.

LINEAPELLE is the most important international trade network dedicated to the global supply chain for fashion, luxury, and design. Twice a year in Milan, New York, and London, LINEAPELLE welcomes the entire fashion manufacturing world and hosts the most advanced and inspiring producers of leathers, accessories, components, synthetic materials, fabrics, and models intended to produce footwear, leather goods, clothing, furniture, and interior and outdoor design objects. LINEAPELLE is a laboratory of the future that presents stylistic themes one season ahead of the finished product trade shows and offers its community an ever-evolving commercial networking experience.

UNIC – CONCERIE ITALIANE is the most important global association in the tanning sector. Its product – Italian leather – represents the highest-profile example worldwide in terms of innovative stylistic mission, technological development, qualitative, circular, and responsible footprint. It represents 1,100 companies, 17,000 employees, and over 4 billion euros in annual turnover, 70% of which is destined for export to 122 countries worldwide. The Italian tanning industry is an international leader for sustainable projects, cutting-edge process solutions, and production value, representing 66% in the European Union and 23% globally.

ASSOPELLETTIERI is the Italian trade association representing Italian leather goods companies, including major luxury brands, producers (represented at LINEAPELLE NEW YORK by Sapaf and Tivoli), and small and medium-sized enterprises with their own brands. Since 1966, the association conveys the interests of the Italian leather goods sector, consisting of over 4,700 companies and 50,000 employees, with a turnover of 13 billion euros, 87% of which is destined for export (11.30 billion euros).