I think one of the biggest influences as to the accuracy of the color is that this leather has been vegetable tanned. That and the type of leather used. I don't think he would have any problem with my posting this email, just an fyi for you:
"As you may know these hides come from a special breed of sheep that live in 2 places on the planet and we have to import them from thousands of miles away. Their skins are vegetable tanned, a process which takes at least 6 months to complete. They are 100% natural and their beauty lies on the fact that they have not a uniform grain. That's the attestation of natural and genuine leather.
Regular lambskin has uniform grain partly due to the nature of the animals and partly due to the fact that leathers undergo various processes including sanding and grinding in order to smooth them out."
"The hide is supreme quality, the tannery sells it to high end Italian and French designers only.
For your information, there are very few tanneries in the world that continue to tan by vegetable tanning, thus all veg tanned leathers are very expensive.
The jacket is sold very cheap compared to the price of the hides.
We kept the price low in the spirit of launching the jacket with a special introductory price.
Unfortunately, the price will go North soon when we will make available the dark brown color, as we have to breakeven."
This behind the scenes shot is uncanny:
afalzon wrote:very similar draping here
and here