Italian leather consortium launches student initiative
The Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium has been providing seminars, meetings and the use of its laboratories to fashion institutes for a number of years and it has now turned its attention to helping fashion students.
This year, the consortium is looking to launch new initiatives at fashion Institutes from
Japan will be the first target country for the project, when four Japanese fashion institutes—Bunka Fashion College, Sugino Fashion College, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery and A-Dash Work—will work with the consortium to create vegetable-tanned leather collections at ‘Natural Sensations’ to be held in Tokyo, on February 20. The students involved will choose leathers from the consortium book to produce 22 finished items including shoes, bags, hats and clothing. Students and tanners will present the products and will talk about the production methods and characteristics of the leathers.
Further projects will take place in
