Livery company celebrates RLSD winner
The Worshipful Company of Curriers has congratulated De Montfort University student Jamie Unlu O’Grady on his success in this year’s Real Leather Stay Different design competition.
US industry association Leather and Hide Council of America, organiser of the competition, named Mr Unlu O’Grady as this year’s winner at the end of October.
His winning entry was a footwear design he called SubTraction.
Earlier in the process, The Worshipful Company of Curriers gave the competition winner a grant of £750 to buy leather to help him turn SubTraction from an idea into a real product.
It said it was happy to have provided early support for an idea that had already gone far, and which Jamie Unlu O’Grady hopes take even further.
The Worshipful Company of Curriers is one of several of the City of London’s ancient livery companies with ties to the leather industry. Dating back to 1272, its name comes from ‘currying’, a term for cleaning, scraping, stretching and finishing hides through oiling, waxing or colouring them after the tanning process.
