LVMH to open largest leather goods workshop in Italy

After the 50 million investment for Fendi, the fashion world continues to focus on Tuscany. In fact, LVMH has announced the opening of a leather goods workshop dedicated to making products for Louis Vuitton based in Sieci, a hamlet in the Italian town of Pontassieve in the province of Florence. On the strength of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Tuscany region and LVMH, the workshop will be set up over the next three years and is expected to increase the number of employees of the Arnault family group in Tuscany from the current 270 to 450.

At the moment Louis Vuitton is present in Tuscany with two factories, one in Incisa and one in Rignano, while in 2019 LVMH had inaugurated two other factories: the first in Bagno a Ripoli dedicated to Fendi, and the second in Radda in Chianti dedicated instead to production for Celine. The primacy of Tuscany as a hub for luxury leather goods is thus reconfirmed, a status that continues to attract big brands and therefore big investments to the region but also allows the preservation of artisanal skills handed down from generation to generation that constitute priceless human capital.