Our positive thoughts for the European leather trade were already working out before the Pandemic with the French leather industry steadily growing market share at the expense if an increasingly costly China, the Portuguese leather footwear industry accelerating and some Italian garment makers repatriating their production to ensure brand authenticity.
Lineapelle has demonstrated that despite the volatile times the leather industry in Europe is invigorated, full of real and promised innovation and much more open to collaboration and the creativity that will go with it. And the wide international presence in Milan showed there is every reason to show that the rest of the global leather industry is part of it.
Mike Redwood
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