Lanxess presents the latest leather trends
12/03/2008
Specialty chemical company Lanxess has launched a new book giving leather trends for the months ahead.
The company’s aim is to show tanneries what next season’s trends are going
to be, what colors, structures and surface touches will be in fashion in spring-summer 2009. On the practical side, there are also formulations and processing suggestions.
“Each year the leather sector eagerly awaits news of the latest fashion trends,” says Bianca Verstegen, product manager in Lanxess’s leather business unit, “because the sooner a manufacturer knows what is going to be in demand in the coming season the better. In the leather industry it is not just the colors that are important. These are generally dictated by the textile sector.
“Tanners also have to know what kind of surface touch, appearance and overall impression are wanted for fashionable upper leather, whether brushed or glossy, nubuck or patent, imitation crocodile or abstract grain patterns. All these factors determine whether a leather is in keeping with the trend or not. We help our customers to be prepared.”
Lanxess’s leather experts have the benefit of being able to tap into information coming from the company’s own leather competence centre in Italy. It will present the leather trend book at the Fimec trade fair in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, next month.
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