As the RLSD Africa Talent Leather Design Showcase 2026 enters its judging phase, attention turns to the distinguished panel entrusted with identifying the designs that best embody this year’s competition brief. More than a collection of respected industry
We've all been there. A bag that starts peeling after eighteen months. A belt that cracks in its second winter. A wallet that looks tired before your credit card expires. The fashion industry has built an entire economy on this kind of planned disappointment.
Hermès has unveiled the Atelier Horizons Disque Jockey Club — a fully functioning DJ set-up that marries rich Pippa cowhide leather with hand-crafted mahogany. The result is nothing short of
Few names in fashion carry the heritage of Prada. Since Mario Prada founded his leather goods shop in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan in 1913, the house has built its reputation on one founding principle: that the finest materials shaped by the
The Real Leather. Stay Different. 2026 International Student Design Competition will assemble its most exciting judging line up yet. Spanning fashion, footwear, education, media and entertainment, the panel will head to Bangkok for the competition’s sixth
Korean artist Kwangho Lee has taken over Bottega Veneta's Via Sant'Andrea store in Milan with an installation created during Design Week. Titled Lightful, the work sees twisting cords of the house's signature fettucce leather, in bespoke green and black,
Leather is having its most confident summer yet. From the catwalks of Milan and Paris to the sun-drenched terraces of Ibiza, the material that once retreated the moment temperatures rose is now starring in the warmest months of the
The buzz around this year’s Real Leather. Stay Different. International Student Design Competition is growing by the day. We’ve already been inspired by the incredible entries coming in from students and recent graduates around the world. But the
Bell Quintão is not a brand built on hype. There are no seasonal surges, no trend-chasing, no mass production runs. Instead, working independently from her studio, Brazilian-born designer Bell Quintão produces small-batch, one-off leather pieces designed to
Born and raised in Walsall, the historic centre of the British leather trade, it’s no wonder that Lauren Broxton thinks that leather working is in her blood. “It was inevitable really,” she says. “I grew up here – you can’t walk around the
A groundbreaking laboratory study has found that fashion’s pivot to recycled polyester may be doing more environmental harm than good. Research published by the Changing Markets Foundation reveals that recycled polyester creates significantly more
There’s a particular kind of alchemy that happens when tradition meets experimentation - when centuries-old craft techniques are reimagined through a contemporary lens, not to replace what came before, but to carry it forward. Craft-designer-artist Roee Ben