Luxury partners praise Loewe’s commitment to training new artisans
11/03/2015
Loewe launched its own training school at its headquarters in Getafe, south of Madrid, in 2013 as part of a wider expansion plan.
In recent comments to media in Spain, senior Círculo Fortuny figures said more support needs to come from all levels of government for training new generations of craftspeople in leathergoods and other areas of artisan production. The chief executive of jewellery company, Joyerías Suárez, Carlos Delso, said: “Every provincial capital in Spain has a university, but we don’t have schools anywhere that can offer professional training to allow people to make a leather handbag, cut a suit or set a gem.” Mr Delso went on to say that the only professional training centres in existence were private ones, such as Loewe’s. He questioned the need, in contrast, for Spain to have around 50 law faculties around the country.
For his part, the president of the Círculo Fortuny, winemaker Carlos Falcó, said that Loewe’s commitment to using local talent and local raw materials served as a good example of what luxury companies can do. He insisted there was a good chance that Ubrique, in the province of Cádiz, a place with a long tradition of artisan leathergoods manufacture, may have lost its traditional industry if not for Loewe.
Before the expansion in Getafe, Loewe said that around 80% of its leather products came from artisan producers in Ubrique.
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