APLF Awards: Indians make their mark

The Best of APLF Awards, a product design and quality

competition held during the Materials, Manufacturing & Technology (MM&T) and Fashion Access fairs announced a list of 15 deserving exhibitors at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. To celebrate the 10th year of the awards program, all the winners were presented with special golden versions of the traditional blue trophies.

While Çetinkaya Kürk Deri of Turkey got the award for Best Fashion Leather with its creative use of colors and textures to create beautiful and supple leathers suited for garments, Wipelli International of Italy won the Best New Leather prize for its vintage style Africa collection. Best Luxury Leather was the salmon leather collection of Iceland’s Atlantic Leather.

India’s Aqsa International won an award for its successful use of New Processing Technology for leather. Under other categories too, the bags of Fashion Folio of India was chosen as the Best Handcrafted Collection with their intricate beading, patterns, colors and whimsical designs that pay homage to traditional craft of handsewing.

APLF is a joint venture between SIC Group and UBM Asia. For over two decades, Hong Kong-based APLF has been providing the global leather and fashion industries with its most important meeting and trading place.