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Exotic animal skins are an necessary and growing percentage of high-end fashion and even mid-end fashion. Today’s most general honored lavishness brands such as Bottega Veneta, Alexander McQueen, Celestina and Yves Saint Laurent have embraced exotic skins or faux exotic skins in an increasing number of designs. To match this trend there a number of new high-end brands that have succeeded in the market through a focus on exotic skins. Nancy Gonzalez is the most widely known and esteemed of these, having brought crocodile skins to the limelight. Today a good deal of of her bags may be found in the leading division stores in as outstanding a number as the older brands such as Chanel, Lanvin and a heap of others. The most recent exotic skin to surface has been Stringray, also known as shagreen (or chagrin). Stingray skin has long been applied for fashion nevertheless the design of merchandise was very basic, and it was never taken in by designers more than willing to push it into the luxuries limelight. Part of the issue was that stingray skin has been notoriously difficult to work with, as it is a very tough skin and difficult to bend and to manipulate to use for the complex demands of design in today’s accessaries market. However, over the last 5 years great strides have been made by select manufacturers (who keep their proficiencies almost guarded secrets) to treat stingray skin to render it softer, give it tones and work with it within complex designs. As a result, starting from 2006 and 2007 we have seen an increase in the number of Stingray leather accessaries surfacing in the accessaries market – peculiarly at the lavishness end (since working with the stingray leather is a complex hand worked process). In 2009 and 2010 this has culminated in a big number of accessory productions hitting the market. Interestingly, because working with Stringray remains a delicate and less well known routine a good deal of of the greatest brand names have chosen to join the market with print stringray and faux stringray engraved in established leather. The number of faux stringray productions lining shelves today in stores like Bergdorf Goodman are among the most prominent skin styles today. Brands such as Lanvin, Chanel and a good deal of others use terms such as ‘caviar’ printed leather or printed stringray to describe their own version of the stingray styled leathers. It is perchance the biggest trend in high-end stores of 2010. Meanwhile the real Stingray leather productions are in comparatively short supply. Niche brands working with stringray fetch them out, and the larger brands fetch out their experiments with the stingray leather – which trade out comparatively quickly. Stingray skin is a fashion trend to be watched. As makers and designers learn more regarding the leather and how to bend it to fit their designs and vice versa, suppose to see more and more real stingray leather luxuriousness accessaries on the market. |
