Born and Bred Among Leather

Leather used to be called "curàme" in the Veneto dialect. In the workshops of the old centre of Padua, master craftsmen used it to create exquisite objects that were both strong and beautiful — items for daily life, with excellent quality.

The Fermon brothers, noses pressed to the windows of their childhood, learned to understand and love leather, appraise the techniques used in working it and imagine uses and applications. Today, the world's top fashion houses depend on those solid, age-old manual skills — complemented by a designer touch and backed by technology.