Clariant trends for autumn/winter 2011/12
Worldwide
Published: 28 May, 2010
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Based on the input of internationally known trend institutes and fashion specialists, ‘Fashion Up!’ contains real leather samples to support tanners in generating new collections based on the latest seasonal trends. The Trend Booklet illustrates the new look of autumn/winter 2011/12. Clariant’s four leather trends share new inspirations with its customers and bring this season to life. Modernity and futurism on the one hand, with tradition, magic and mysticism on the other. A season full of contrasts, but with one combining element: awareness and concern for the environment.
Clariant’s Trend Booklet highlights four fashion themes for the Autumn/Winter 2011-12 season. More detail will be published in Leather International magazine LHTBI celebrate 150th
United Kingdom
Published: 28 May, 2010
The UK Leather & Hide Trades' Benevolent Institution (LHTBI) celebrated their 150th anniversary with a reception and lunch at the Leathersellers' hall in London on May 27. Approximately £2000 (US$2900) was raised during the event to support the 82 LHTBI recipients representing former leather and leather product workers.
The key address was given by Jill Williams, financial director, Pittards who is the outgoing president. Williams was elected in 2009 as the first female preseident in the institute's 150 years.Malcolm Proops, director, Walter Reginald Group, was elected as the new president during the LHTBI AGM which took place prior the lunch.
The LHTBI was established in 1860 following a meeting held in a coffee shop on Ludgate Hill, London. The first president was J S Deed and first payment that was made was for £18.14 (US$26.5) was distributed to the needy from the leather and leather products industries who had fallen on hard times.
In 2009 the LHTBI distrbuted funds worth £70,000 (US$102,000
Time to fashion-up!
First published January 2010
Published: 10 March, 2010
Clariant have developed a new edition of their Leather Trend Booklet called ‘Fashion Up!’ in preparation for the spring/summer 2011 season
Based on the input of internationally known trend institutes and fashion specialists, ‘fashion up!’ contains real leather samples to support tanners in generating new collections based on the latest seasonal trends.
The Trend Booklet illustrates the totally new look of spring/summer 2011 season which follows a completely modern, more sporty, casual and individual direction with surprising looks and finishes.
Clariant’s Trend Booklet highlights four fashion themes for the spring/summer 2011 season.
Country Cousins reflects the new trend for ‘austerity chic’ brought about by the
economic downturn. Fresh-faced simplicity places emphasis on natural looks.
Bohemian Rhapsody is inspired by the unconventional and artistic temperament of rock stars and rich hippies. Polished, pearled and lustre finishes on leather have rock star glamour.
Fashion travels way back to the dawn of time with Primeval Spirit. This plunges a raw and primitive feel into the styles, drawing upon nature’s wildest regions for inspiration.
In Latin Lovers the love affair with wild-western trends continues, shifting south to Latin America. Gaucho cowboys, glamorous tango dancers and fiery spirited Latinos are the influence here.
All newly-introduced leather trends are in-line with the fashion colours for the spring/summer 2011 season. These colours are presented in Clariant’s Global Color Card, developed in close cooperation with Modeurop.
The Global Color Card focuses on cool colours reflecting transparency and lightness for the season. Mild shades of green and natural beige are supplemented by pale skin tones to stimulate thoughts of nature, bionics and ecology.
Sweet colour shades such as sorbets, milkshakes or fruit yoghurt whet the appetite for new fashion looks.
All illustrated colours from Clariant’s Global Color Card show wet-end formulations achieved with their Melioderm dyestuff range covering all dyeing needs with the ultimate in performance. The
finishing recipes are based on Clariant`s innovative Neosan 2000 and PPE pigment ranges.
Clariant team-up with Modeurop
Modeurop, the fashion forecast group at DSI (Das Schuhinstitut) and Clariant, the maker of colorants and chemicals for the dyeing, tanning, retanning and finishing of leather, have established an innovative, colour forecasting partnership, it was announced last December.
This cooperation will provide tailored, reliable and consistent colour forecasts to the footwear leather processing industry. It targets the entire value chain, from
tanneries through to shoe manufacturer and retailers.
The cooperation between the two partners will bring considerable benefits to shoe makers and their suppliers. Shoe manufacturers and tanneries can be provided with information on colour and trends well in advance of the season. In the future all Clariant colour charts will include Modeurop specified colours. Thanks to Clariant’s international presence, Modeurop’s colour information will now reach the most important tanneries worldwide. Marga Indra-Heide, fashion consultant at Modeurop, comments on the cooperation agreement made in October 2009: ‘As a result of our partnership with Clariant, Modeurop colours have been elevated onto the prestigious global stage, adding an international dimension to our business.’ Clariant have years of expertise in colorants and chemicals for leather manufacturing.
Clariant’s leather chemicals lend the various shoe leather grades the properties that are highly valued by the industry and consumers, such as abrasion resistance, lightfastness, water repellency or tear strength. Within the scope of their worldwide Global Shoe Concept, Clariant already offer their customers from the shoe leather industry a world-established fashion trend forecast also interpreting colour previews, future trends and effects on leather.
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