Credit: DEAN
Last year on the MET red carpet, Ariana Grande enchanted everyone with a mother-of-pearl creation designed by Loewe and made by an Italian company, Superlativa. This season Gucci, after De Sarno's farewell, presents a passing collection where mother-of-pearl steals the show, becoming a scenic and super chic workmanship made on leather for skirts and trench coats.
“It is in this case most likely a digital print,” Fabio Resti, product research and development manager at DEAN, a Neapolitan company specializing in the highest quality lambskin, which just during the last edition of Lineapelle presented mother-of-pearl effect leathers.
“In this case the texture of the actual shell is hyper-realistic and is likely the result of a digital printing process on the leather. If, on the other hand, one is looking for the classic iridescent effect of mother-of-pearl, this can be achieved either by film applied to the leather or by varnishing. In this case, it is a two-step process, which precisely allows the iridescence to be reproduced in a natural way and which, compared to film, is more resistant to wear and tear.”
