A true craftsman must find the pleasure of getting his hands dirty, of empathizing with the material, he must become as one with it to develop, refine the skills and manual skills.
Each leather jewel that I make has its history and its own processing time, because leather is a material that I define as "alive" and each piece reacts differently, it must be understood and interpreted in its transformation path to express its full potential.
Giving life to a valuable article means investing in details that become extra processing steps. For all Chiara Zanetti leather jewels, the leather used always faces a path before arriving on the workbench, all the various processes are done in Italian laboratories and each Chiara Zanetti leather creation is made entirely by hand and numbered.
Only for some models is used, in part, laser processing.
The leather must become a second skin to wear, it needs the same care that we give to our skin. For this reason, before and after being worked, the leather is cleaned with water and Aleppo soap, then its surface is nourished several times with almond or argan oil, then left to rest for about 24 hours and, finally polished with a woolen cloth.
A quality leather jewel must be able to express not only refinement, attention to detail, and materials but must offer practical aspects such as portability and lightness, it must be a pleasure to wear it, it must become as one with our body.
In my collections I try to bring out the individuality and different material effects that can be obtained with a single material, trying to start a new way of "thinking the leather"..
There are silent sensations that each of us, in a unique and I would say almost magical way, perceives in approaching a creation that seeks to express a renewed approach to the vision of creativity by trying to live in harmony with the changes of the time, beyond the fashion and fashions.
