From athleisure to business shoes: Leather Fashion Show highlights 2025 trends

The Indian Completed Leather-based Producers and Exporters Affiliation (IFLMEA) hosted the thirty eighth Leather-based Style Present at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai.
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On this 12 months’s Union Funds, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced a spotlight product scheme for the footwear and leather-based sectors. The Hindu reported that this will generate a turnover of ₹4 lakh crore, and exports of greater than ₹1.1 lakh crore, producing employment for 22 lakh individuals.

On the cusp of this announcement, the Indian Completed Leather-based Producers and Exporters Affiliation (IFLMEA) hosted the thirty eighth Leather-based Style Present at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai.

This 12 months’s show focussed on athleisure , together with workplace and journey equipment, biker jackets, belts, wallets, sneakers, boots, and baggage for each event. Main leather-based exporter Yavar Dhala stated that the present has been held because the early Nineteen Fifties and made predictions for the upcoming 12 months. “Athleisure appears to be making massive waves, however I additionally see the standard black and brown enterprise sneakers making a comeback,” he stated, including that the State has the very best variety of girls workers within the leather-based trade.

This 12 months’s show targeted on athleisure, together with workplace and journey equipment, biker jackets, belts, wallets, sneakers, boots, and baggage for each event. 
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R. Ravindran

“Leather-based is getting used even in informal sneakers now. It’s now not simply artificial; it’s a mixture of each. The elimination of import responsibility goes to be very useful. It’s a welcome transfer by the Authorities because it brings lots of overseas investments to Tamil Nadu,” stated KR Vijayan, chairman, IFLMEA.

The present started with a youngsters’ footwear show by Tata Worldwide that includes boys’, ladies’, and toddler sneakers in trendy leather-based end, after which moved on to grownup footwear from Language. This showcase additionally featured the spotlight of the style present — a pet carried in a bag! “I needed the pet to stroll on the runway, however we weren’t permitted to do this,” stated Bhaskaran Chandra Sekhar, director of the style present, including that this 12 months’s present pushed the boundaries of potentialities by bringing in luxurious automobiles and motorbikes to behave because the backdrop for the present.

The night noticed 70 impeccably styled fashions, together with youngsters and 10 showstoppers.
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R. Ravindran

In accordance with AR Senthil Kumar, convenor of the present, that is Asia’s largest such occasion. “A lot of the contributors are new to the present,” he stated on the opening. The night noticed 70 impeccably styled fashions, together with youngsters and 10 showstoppers, donning leather-based clothes and equipment from 11 manufacturers — Tata Worldwide, Language, Tohl, Vista, Z-Aglet, Perf, Toni Rossi, Tritan, Aks & Advert, Kompanero, and Ramjee Leather-based.