For ten years, worker-owned cooperative Pingree Detroit has been sourcing surplus leather and making it into handmade shoes and accessories.
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23 December 2025
Unwanted hides will go far
16 December 2025
Handmade differences
A start-up Seoul-based footwear brand is attracting attention in Europe as a result of its ability to offer huge versatility while staying true to traditional, artisan skills and the use of high-quality...
03 December 2025
Credible pathways
Non-profit organisation the Institute for Data Integrity is being launched because transparent data, and analysis of that data, are now a necessity for the global leather industry.
26 November 2025
Natural attraction
Leather industry representatives are working increasingly closely with their counterparts in sectors such as wool, silk, cotton and cashmere. A united voice from suppliers of different natural fibres stands a...
18 November 2025
EUDR ups and downs
Hopes in the leather industry in September of at least a temporary reprieve on EUDR were dashed in October. The European Commission has published a document insisting that the regulation will come into...
05 November 2025
Luxury’s pivotal moment?
As luxury sales dip, brands should find a way to monetise resale channels without impacting brand value, according to a study. A new cross-party congressional group in the US hopes to boost the sector, too.
28 October 2025
Water-positive
Luxury group Kering has released the first details of a new water strategy.
21 October 2025
Record in the bag
An original prototype of the Hermès Birkin bag has become the most expensive handbag ever to sell at auction.
30 September 2025
Still no solution to plastic pollution
An intergovernmental committee has failed, once again, to agree a treaty on ending plastic pollution. A consumer backlash seems inevitable. In response, leather has a chance to become the material of choice...
23 September 2025
Brands must buy better
After falls in the volume and value of leather that Italian tanners produced in 2024, the president of national industry body UNIC, Fabrizio Nuti, has offered his colleagues reasons for sticking with their...
17 September 2025
Added value
An article we published five years ago put at 2000% the figure for the added value that tanners and leathergoods manufacturers can give to hides. As this follow-up article shows, if you put the material in the ...
12 August 2025
Behind the leather golf glove
The concept of the circular economy is gaining momentum across a range of industries, and the production of leather for golf gloves offers a clear example of how this thinking translates into practice.
05 August 2025
Brave decisions
It is 40 years since Catalan small-skin tanning group Curtidos Codina recognised the importance of Brazil as a source of its main raw material and set up its own full-service tannery in the South American...
29 July 2025
ECCO’s strength is also its weakness
The footwear and leather group is focusing on resuming operations after a fire destroyed its wet-end processing facility in the Netherlands.
22 July 2025
Data specialists step in
Technology companies that have been down the traceability path before with the seafood sector have now launched an initiative for leather.
16 July 2025
Nothing to Hide: a decade of truth-telling
Cited by companies including Puma, which used the platform as a resource when fact-checking leather statistics, we celebrate 10 years since World Leather’s publisher launched the platform to dispel myths and...
08 July 2025
A perfect fit
Industry body COTANCE organised an event at EU Green Week 2025 to present to an influential audience leather’s credentials for earning recognition as the circular economy’s dream product.
24 June 2025
Fast-fashion thinking damages durability debate
A group that has led lengthy discussions on what constitutes product durability has chosen to ignore fact-based arguments that favour leather and other natural materials.
17 June 2025
SMEs weigh data burden
Some of the world’s most beautiful shoes are made by highly skilled artisans in small workshops.
10 June 2025
Bad for goods
This second article on the 2025 trade crisis focuses on finished product and shows that companies and consumers everywhere, including the US, will feel pain.
03 June 2025
Fund raises hopes as well as money
An initiative that WWF has launched aims to raise an initial $10 million to help fund deforestation-free sourcing of hides. It says this will just be the start.
28 May 2025
Liberation Day blues
April 2025 was a cruel month of tariffs, counter-measures, trade tensions and uncertainty.
13 May 2025
Change takes time
Carlo Briccola is president of the young business leaders’ group at Italy’s main representative body for the fashion sector, Confindustria Moda Accessori.
06 May 2025
Fix up, look sharp
The team behind Circulo, a software platform connecting brand and repairers, has published a white paper that sets out the business case for circular services.
Fashion brands must find new ways to strengthen...
29 April 2025
Skills celebration
Luxury automotive company Rolls-Royce Motors celebrates its successful apprenticeship programme as an essential component of efforts to build up the skilled workforce it will need in the future.
23 April 2025
A seat at the table
Puma has enlisted ‘youth voices’ and influencers to explore questions surrounding real leather versus its alternatives – and uses our Nothing to Hide website to inform the debate.
15 April 2025
Clean and green
A new initiative that the European Commission calls its Clean Industrial Deal should strengthen the leather sector’s claims that it deserves to remain part of the manufacturing panorama.
09 April 2025
France’s future
The president of Alliance France Cuir confirms that changes in farming in France may have wide-ranging consequences for the whole of the leather sector there.
01 April 2025
Where things come from
Detailed work on traceability that Tapestry has been carrying out since 2019 could help companies in different parts of the supply chain respond to regulatory requirements, including EUDR.
25 March 2025
Life and Seoul
Leathergoods start-ups from Seoul caught the eye at the September edition of Mipel in Milan. Six of them travelled to Italy for the occasion, but the South Korean capital is home to thousands more.
18 March 2025
Put it down to experience
According to expert analyst Claudia D’Arpizio, luxury leathergoods brands will do well to emphasise the “emotional experience” involved in owning beautiful products made from the most circular material in the...
11 March 2025
Good COP, bad COP
COP16 and COP29 – Conference of the Parties to the United Nations conventions on biodiversity and climate change – highlighted differences of opinion on accountability and financing and were generally thought...
04 March 2025
Blame it on the leathergoods
After disappointing results, London-based luxury brand Burberry has decided that the best way to turn its fortunes around is to shine far less limelight on leather.
25 February 2025
To net-zero and beyond
The United Nations has identified forest conservation as an important component in the battle to bring carbon emissions down. Contrary to the perceptions of many, livestock farmers are convinced they can...
18 February 2025
Calf strain
Constraints in the supply of calfskins are having an impact on the luxury leathergoods sector, according to a past-president of ICHSLTA.
11 February 2025
Higg’s leather turnaround
Data provided by the Leather Working Group, Leather Naturally and Spin360 has resulted in a significant revision of figures for leather on the Materials Sustainability Index.