​Men's Fashion Designer Urbano Steriti, creator of Urban Guerilla paid us a visit at the Beverly Hills Showroom today. Urbano is working with Frank on the final touches of his upcoming vegetable tanned cowhide leather jackets. This will be an expansion from his existing lineup of duffel, messenger and other travel bags for men. 
The jackets will feature removable zipper sleeves as well as a removable zipper hoodie. The signature debossed Urban Guerilla logo will be featured prominently in the back of the jackets. A New York City resident, Urbano cares deeply about the jacket's versatility and its functionality especially in NYC where temperature swings can be gigantic (going from the heat of the subway to the snowy streets in 2 minutes).

For more, visit: 
Website UrbanGuerilla
Instagram UrbanGuerillaguerilla

The Rolling Stone Magazine September edition will feature Manam leather pants worn by Gal Gadot
(front page and inside story pictures).

The "Shale Pants" high waisted stretch lambskin leather pants were created and designed by fashion designer Natalie Yaru and manufactured at Ortu Leather's Los Angeles facilities. The leather pants feature 6 pockets, patch logos and ankle zippers.
Natalie is one of a select few talented, young, up and coming designers with whom Ortu leather keeps a very close relationship. Ortu leather's mindset is to always help the designer better manage the growth of their fashion brand by constantly watching leather, lining and other hardware inventory levels as well as monitor sales numbers in order to guarantee both accurate purchasing of materials and appropriate production timelines.

The styling and finishing of Natalie pret a porter fashion line is always avant garde and unique.

As usual Ortu leather is working ensure a quick production turnaround in order to fulfill order requests which already started pouring in, as is usually the case during exceptional press
​or film fashion features.

For more, visit Manam and Rolling Stone Magazine

Katro label featured at Gratus Beverly Hills!

​Designer friend Kathleen Rosenbloom is currently featuring her new line of ready to wear women moto leather jackets (from her Katro label) at famous Gratus Beverly Hills boutique.
All jackets were designed by Kathleen and manufactured in collaboration with Ortu leather here in Los Angeles.
​Gratus is renowned for its unique curation of designers and brands not found elsewhere in the city, as well as a personal service that focuses on personal styling rather than the traditional shopping experience.

For more, visit Gratus
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Our designer friend Page Thirty is throwing a one time Pop Up on Abbot Kinney in Venice, CA.
This is a chance to see Page Thirty's current and upcoming leather coats, jackets and other creations up close, each piece featuring Ortu Leather's high end manufacturing touch 👌
Mark you calendar! SAT 9/6/17 from 12pm to 6pm.
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For more on this event, visit: Page Thirty Pop Up

Paying a visit to our friend designer Daniel Thies owner of Delikt for his charity fundraiser for 826LA during Echo Park Rising Festival and Delikt store grand opening ! I'm sporting one of the white moto jackets designed by Daniel and manufactured in collaboration with ORTU.
​Painted leather jackets by artists will be auctioned off and 100% of the profits will go to non profit organisation 826 LA. meet artists @americanelectrictattoo @artnevow @Dr.Knutson @kentaronic @mike.nesbit @Nathan_pistachio @xuli_w

For more, visit Echo Park Rising 

Do you see a pattern here? 

All joking aside, the pattern is the essential component in the fabrication of a leather garment.
Think about a house. Does it really matter which color will be used to paint the rooms if the foundation is wobbly and the walls resemble the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the house will crumble in a few months? It's the same thing for a leather jacket, if one arm is longer than the other and the jacket doesn't close properly: does it matter which color leather we'll use?
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It takes years for a leather specialist to master the craft of making the pattern for the perfect leather jacket and become a true pattern maker. Usually, fashion manufacturers or fashion designers who are not specialized in leather leave it to a specialist. They don't have the luxury to allocate the hundreds of hours required to truly master the art of the leather garment pattern. One of the most challenging aspects (and where most irreversible mistakes come from) is the seam allowance. The seam allowance is basically the extra space left in each panel at the cutting stage to allow for the sewer to stitch (or glue) the pieces of the leather garment together. Each pattern piece has a specific allowance (3/8''in, 1/4'' in, etc). The lining on the inside of the leather jacket also needs to respect this rule. Seam allowance in the leather apparel world is different than in fabric. Using a pattern from a fabric item to make a leather piece will not work. Another complication is that each leather hide is different from the next and varies in size, thickness, with its own irregularities. The process of translating the pattern into different sizes called grading also requires specific seam allowances.

All of this makes the hard pattern something of a work of art. This specialized work ensures that the sample maker gets to work with a solid and bulletproof base.

If you need patterns made for leather jackets, leather pants, leather dresses, leather tops etc, please reach out to info@ortuleather

​A few of the tones, trends and key colors on offering at Ortu leather.
​We work closely with tanneries to ensure availability and quick turnaround for manufacturers reorders throughout the Fall Winter 2017 season. Below are a few of the lambskin and cowhide leather available. Very surprisingly, turquoise was a big on designer's request list this year!  

Our friend Chelsea Leifken is on the way up!
We're very glad to be right by her side to witness the evolution of her wonderful brand, fashion and community mission.
Watch for Chelsea teaching fashion classes at FIDM Los Angeles (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising) next month!
​She'll touch upon fashion business, branding strategy and much more..
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For more visit: Chelsea Leifken
#dtla #fidm #fashioninstitute #fashionbusiness

​Crystamas luxury ornaments was featured on CNBC's show: Secret Lives of the Super Rich.
Check out the luxe leather bow ties imagined by Robert and Nancy Pierce made at Ortu leather.
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​Featuring Maison Zaragoza's Ava double zipper satchel
for more visit: www.maisonzaragoza.com/

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UNIVERSAL STUDIOS called upon ORTU leather services to dress up Josh Hamilton and other actors in COLONY USA's Season 2. Premieres 1/12/17.

www.usanetwork.com/colony
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Shot in Ortu leather's backyard.
​For more, visit: Baller Yoga

It's not National Bow Tie Day yet, but we're cranking out the jumbo leather bow ties for luxury brand Crystamas (coming soon to high end retailers).
For more visit Crystamas