UK festival of leather

Capel Manor College, near Enfield, UK, will be the site of the first festival of leather. The weekend of events, conceived by Paul Bryant, will run from Friday to Sunday July 15-17 and take place in the college's 30-acre gardens. The programme will celebrate all things leather and is designed to support the UK leather industry. Activities will include fashion shows featuring leather clothing, shoes and accessories, as well as a variety of stalls selling leathergoods, and informative exhibitions by the ancient leather guilds on the manufacture and usage of leather through the ages.