I was very pleased to be invited to interview Mary Chan who won last year’s APLF Design-a-Bag competition with an really clever use of leather to produce a design that perfectly meet the very specific criteria. It is really inspiring to hear her talk about her material choice and thoughts on sustainability. The video is […]
Marketing is about the stories that you tell
POSTED ON AUGUST 13, 2018 Getting you story right Today I was delighted to be observing the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers being awarded a Fellowship of the University of Northampton at their July Degree ceremonies, to the obvious delight of their Chancellor, The Rev. Richard Coles who grew up locally in a […]
Getting your story right
Today I was delighted to be observing the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers being awarded a Fellowship of the University of Northampton at their July Degree ceremonies, to the obvious delight of their Chancellor, The Rev. Richard Coles who grew up locally in a leather footwear family. The Reverend Coles gives every impression […]
A transformation in thinking and action
(this Item was first published in ARS Tannery In 2017) In 1994 I was asked by the then Secretary, Robert Sykes, to give a talk to the International Council of Tanners (ICT in Hong Kong on the subject of “Branding Leather”. It was a first for me and a new departure for them to consider […]
Leather is a “rare thing to be treasured”
First published in ARS Tannery One wonders whether when people got really hooked on writing on parchment hundreds of years ago there was an outcry about there not being enough raw material being left for making garments? Where would all the raw material come from if the parchment industry took it all? No one, after […]
This is the year to focus on the tannery and the product
This article was first published in ARS Tannery It is hard to imagine that we are half way through the second decade of the new century. While in many ways little appears to have changed that would be a misinterpretation of reality. There have been a number of fundamental shifts. Most of all for the […]
Thinking ahead
Leather is losing out around the margins to competitive materials. It may not feel important but in due course it will make it hard for tanners to sell all the grades profitably and the top end will not generate enough income to cover the bottom. Look at what others are doing. Icebreaker are a wonderful […]
Chinese consumers
At this year’s All China Leather Exhibition in Shanghai anyone checking the traffic on the streets saw fewer black stretched Audi A6s than in the past. This is a good thing. Many in our industry assumed that the extravagant purchasing that included upmarket motor vehicles and fancy luxury goods would continue to accelerate in China […]
Luxury in leather. Some of the big trends
A webinar I ran from the University of Northampton
Paris is back to centre stage
Cuir a Paris brings Paris back centre stage Cuir a Paris is on for the 25th time this week. I have to admit that there have been so much changes in shows in Paris since I began in the leather industry that I assuming that means twelve and a half years with the show twice […]
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