Leather has been seen as an unshakeable and prominent aspect of the fashion industry for millennia. The oldest intact leather shoe is over 5,500 years old. Today over 1.4 billion cattle have been bred and stand on once biodiverse land until they are slaughtered. Leather is now largely tanned with harsh carcinogenic chemicals, and destructive leather supply chains harmfully implicate workers, destroy critical habitat and pollute waterways with toxic chemicals.
The future of fashion is sustainable and ethical; it's time to move beyond animal-derived leather.
and ethical; it's time to move beyond animal-derived leather.
Leather has been seen as an unshakeable and prominent aspect of the
fashion industry for millennia. The oldest intact leather shoe is
over 5,500 years old, pre-dating the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000
years. But it's time for us to move forward.
Today, over 1.4 billion cattle have been bred and stand on once
biodiverse land until they are slaughtered. Leather is now largely
tanned with harsh carcinogenic chemicals, and destructive leather
supply chains harmfully implicate workers, destroy critical habitat
and pollute waterways with toxic chemicals.
Read our report series to understand these intertwined harms, and
how we can move beyond them. When we work together, we have the
power to transform fashion – and we have a responsibility to use
this power for good.
Issues include:
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Please read the ENTIRE REPORT HERE.