AP News and trade follow-ups reported that Salvatore Ferragamo can map country of origin for a large share of the leather in its footwear and handbags — with company voices describing visibility improvements and more than 80% of leather traceable via supplier declarations in the brand’s 2025 sustainability reporting cycle. Experts quoted in that coverage stress the obvious: country-level mapping is a first step, not full chain-of-custody from farm to finished good.
The timing sits inside a wider European wave — CSRD-era transparency, product-sustainability frameworks still settling, and consumer-facing EmpCo rules that punish vague eco language. Luxury’s leather problem has always been cultural as much as logistical: hide is heritage, but heritage without origin discipline invites greenwash critique.
QuintaEarth’s desk take for houses and suppliers: publish what you actually know, label the gaps, and treat mapping as industrial homework. Sacred earth means knowing which landscapes and labour systems your materials touch — not merely styling “responsible leather” for a lookbook. This is commentary on public reporting; QuintaEarth did not perform Ferragamo’s traceability work.
