It’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎼
Soon but not yet. However, it’s already time to start to think about the gifts you want to give to your loved ones.
As always, we’re here to help you by publishing our Gift guide to Christmas 2019!
Today we continue talking about our exotic leathers, proposing you another type of python processing, a workmanship that we have already been using for some time but that, today, we want to introduce you more closely: Naponos python. This process is, in our opinion, one of the most refined and representative among our pythons workmanships because with its colours, often put in contrast each other, it highlights the natural livery of exotic skin, its natural design with its concentric geometries and its scales that seem to open to the touch.
But how is NAPONOS WORKMANSHIP made? Let’s see it together.
Let’s open our new column of questions & answers with the one our readers ask us almost daily: can you rate my vintage / reptile bag? Can you tell me if it’s genuine leather?
The answer is yes we can, but let’s see how.
After opening our section presenting the “embroidered python” in Caffellatte variant, a truly original and refined python that has already captured the heart of many of our customers, we want to talk today about another python we are very proud about: “rope” python.
From the name, you can easily see that it is a very particular kind of python, very different from the image we all have of the classic python skin, with its soft scales and its shading colours.
Rope python in fact, at the mere sight, doesn’t look like a python but it has the look of a real rope, composed of intertwined threads giving life to a well-structured and strong fabric. Scales that, as we have repeated several times, characterize the real python skin, seem here almost inexistent and even the colour is identical to that one of the rope, with its grey and white shades.
But how is it possible that python skin, soft and supple as we have always known it, characterized by qualities such as harmony, elegance, softness and beauty, can suddenly assume the appearance of a rigid, structured and full-bodied rope?
It seems impossible but it is just like that.
The section dedicated to the presentation of the most popular GLENI products continues. Today we will talk about one of the most famous models of the brand, born with the company and in production for years: Irina.
* N.B. Everything indicated below refers to crocodile leather products; Such information, however, also applies to python leather products. Principles and ideas are quite similar.
Imagine a chic leather crocodile bag displayed in the showcase of a trendy boutique in the city centre. How do you feel looking at it? Enchanted by its exclusivity and driven by the desire to buy it right away? Bothered by the use of the skin from an exotic animal? Or totally indifferent? Have you ever heard of Cites?
“But what does a crocodile bag have to do with CITES? And, above all, what does it have to do with me?” – You may be asking yourself and you are right, because this connection, tough direct and immediate, is not obvious and familiar to many of us.
Nevertheless, it is precisely through compliance with CITES regulations that the purchase of this bag not only will not harm the environment, but will also stimulate the growth of these animals in their natural habitat.
You don’t believe it? It is, however, exactly the case! Let’s see together how it works.
Driven by the desire to experiment the new techniques of workmanship and tanning of python directly on our products, we have decided to create an entire capsule collection in embroidered Caffellatte python.
We’re sure that you will soon fall in love with this variant of python with a… so tasty name!
Since its first beginnings as manufacturer and exporter of luxury leather goods, Gleni has distinguished itself for constant commitment in the search for styles and materials that could characterize products making them unique and unrepeatable.
We have always given importance to the design of our models, trying to create products able to enhance the appearance of the person wearing them but, at the same time, also to ensure comfort and practicality, preferring models with a sober and classic line, able to last in time. We pay attention to the hardware used for the finishes of our products, always opting for a qualitative accessory but, above all, we invest a large part of our working time in the selection and choice of leathers we use to give life to our products.
This is perhaps the aspect of our work that most involves and intrigues us, maybe because our staff is completely made up of women and we are all very curious to discover what new colours and new different treatments of exotic leather have been proposed by tanneries at the Lineapelle (the six-monthly fair specifically dedicated to the presentation of novelties in matter of leather).
Every time there is to prepare a new collection, we spend a lot of time choosing the skin that, in our opinion, best fits the model of one bag rather than another and, every time, we try to find a colour or maybe a leather process able to transform our collection into something unique, superb and irresistible.
There are many values that GLENI has conveyed over the years. First of all, the exaltation of your uniqueness.
By giving advice to our clients, we have always encouraged the often overlooked aspect of buying: the inner one. How does that bag make you feel? Does it give you joy? Does it fit with your personal style? Does it make you feel beautiful? And, above all, do you feel like yourself wearing it? If the answers to these questions are a resounding yes, nothing else matters. Trends and fashion fade into the background: wearing a GLENI bag means defining your style in a special way, emphasizing your uniqueness.
That’s why you should always give you the luxury of being yourself.
But what happens if, by looking at our bags, nothing makes you feel unique? Maybe a model caught your eye, but the yellow color doesn’t suit you. Or you prefer the sumptuousness of crocodile to the elegance of ostrich. Or maybe you love both the model and the color, but you would prefer a shiny finish. No problem: there’s no need to run. We have some pretty spectacular news: the lab.
Many big brands of the world fashion panorama decided to give up on exotic leather for the creation of their new collections, motivating their choice with moral and ethic reasons. In their opinion, in fact, there are not enough controls on the “controlled trade” of these leathers; in addition, the use of exotic leathers for the realization of the new fashion collections is getting more and more controversies on the part of convinced animal activists who boycott the catwalks with demonstrations in defence of animal rights.
If we focus on these first considerations, we would all agree that the only choice is to say no to the use exotic leathers in order to avoid the killing of many animals only for profit and, perhaps, even for vanity of those who periodically buy this kind of article.
But is giving up exotic leather a sign of eco sustainability and protection towards these endangered animals?
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