Best of APLF Awards 2025
Winners of APLF Leather and Materials+
Winners of APLF Leather and Materials+
The winners of the Best of APLF Awards (BOAA) 2025 were announced during the BOAA cocktail party on the second day of the three-day event. There were a total of 9 winners with 2 Fashion Access exhibitors, 6 APLF Leather, and Materials+ exhibitors, and 1 special recognition. Read on to find out about the well-deserved award winners in design excellence for finished products.
APLF Leather
Best Quality Leather
Company Name: Megisserie Alran / TANNERIE ARNAL
Country: France
Judges’ Decision: Their high-quality cow leathers that comes in a luxurious dulled metallic finish in a fashionable range of colours. This collaboration between Megisserie Alran and Tannerie Arnal has resulted in leathers that lend themselves to various applications… from fashion, accessories and interiors, among others.
APLF Leather
Best Fashion Leather Collection
Company Name: Egedamla Leather
Country: Türkiye
Judges’ Decision: Egedamla Leather‘s new fashion leather collection that shows a diversity of textures, colours and finishes that are soft to the touch and ideal for garments and gloves.
APLF Leather
Best Automotive / Furniture Leather
Company Name: Luiz Fuga Design Leathers
Country: Brazil
Judges’ Decision: They have been awarded for their exceptional upholstery leathers. Their consistently high-quality offerings, including their new line of woven cow leather and wool, have set a new standard in the industry. Luiz Fuga’s dedication to excellence and innovative approach to upholstery materials have earned them this well-deserved recognition.
APLF Leather
Best Sustainable Leather
Company Name: Robicoco Co., Ltd
Country: Japan
Judges’ Decision: Robicoco has been awarded for their innovative use of matcha powder that gives their Matcha leather collection its characteristic bright green colour. This is sustainable leather as it re-uses byproducts derived from the shade-grown Matcha tea leaves.
APLF Leather
Best Fur Collection
Company: Alpaka Deri
Country: Türkiye
Judges’ Decision: They have been recognized for their incredible new collection of short and long-haired furs, most of which are double-faced. Made from sheepskin and lambskin, they are wonderfully soft and silky to the touch and they come in a beautiful range of classic colours.
Materials+
Best New Component
Company: Lee Ing Global Ltd
Country: Hong Kong
Judges’ Decision: Their collection of premium fasteners and components such as magnetic twist systems, snap buckles, glow-in-the-dark buckles … this are used for sports bags such as hermetic dry bags, sports-shoes, and other high-performance articles.
Materials+
Special Recognition
Company: Redt Inc.
Country: Korea
Judges’ Decision: They are recognised for providing solutions specifically for leather artisans and smaller leathergoods companies, with their range of more accessible machinery and tools including embossing die engraving machines and low-cost dies.
