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  • Adidas, Stella McCartney Lululemon and Kering to sell Mylo mushroom leather by next year

    Major fashion houses will sell products made from mushroom leather by next year

    Adidas, Stella McCartney, Lululemon and Gucci's parent company Kering have teamed up to invest in a novel material called Mylo, which is grown from mycelium but rivals the look and feel of animal leather. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 8 October 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Tômtex is a leather alternative made from waste seafood shells and coffee

    Tômtex is a leather alternative made from waste seafood shells and coffee grounds

    Vietnamese designer Uyen Tran has developed a flexible bio-material called Tômtex, a leather alternative made from food waste that can be embossed with a variety of patterns to replicate animal leathers. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 22 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Ultrafabrics at Helsinki Fashion Week

    Fashion "needs to rapidly develop" beyond animal leather says Helsinki Fashion Week founder

    Fashion designers and brands need to start swapping animal leather for sustainable alternatives, or risk alienating themselves from consumers, says Evelyn Mora, founder of Helsinki Fashion Week. More

    Amy Frearson | 30 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Native makes plant-based sneakers from rubber tree milk and eucalyptus

    Native Shoes makes compostable plant-based sneakers from pineapple and eucalyptus

    Canadian footwear brand Native Shoes has released a unisex sneaker made entirely from vegan-friendly materials including eucalyptus, pineapple husk and dried hevea milk. More

    Natashah Hitti | 12 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Shahar Livne makes bio-leather shoes from slaughterhouse waste

    Israeli designer Shahar Livne has designed a pair of sneakers with alternative leather inserts made from the wasted fat, bones and blood of animals. More

    Natashah Hitti | 31 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Korvaa headphones by Aivan ar made from six different microbial materials

    Aivan grows headphones from fungus and yeast

    Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Hugo Boss Pinatex vegan shoes

    Hugo Boss designs vegan shoes that replace leather with pineapple-based material

    Fashion label Hugo Boss has launched a range of vegan men's shoes made from a natural material consisting of pineapple leaf fibres called Piñatex. More

    Augusta Pownall | 4 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Don Kwaning's Lino Leather is a vegan alternative to leather

    Don Kwaning's Lino Leather is a vegan alternative to leather

    Designer Don Kwaning has developed a new material, called Lino Leather, that emulates the texture of leather for interior and furniture design. More

    Anna Winston | 2 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Palm leather rugs by Tjeerd Veenhoven offer a vegan alternative to cow hide

    Palm leather rugs are vegan alternative to cow hide

    Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven's rugs made from a palm leaf material, called palm leather, are a sustainable and vegan alternative to traditional leather made from animal skin. More

    Augusta Pownall | 16 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Stella McCartney launches vegan Adidas Stan Smiths

    Stella McCartney and Adidas launch vegan Stan Smiths

    Fashion designer Stella McCartney has teamed up with Adidas on a leather-free, vegan edition of its classic Stan Smith shoe. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 7 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Pinatex pineapple leather

    Leather alternative Piñatex is made from pineapple leaves

    Materials company Ananas Anam has developed Piñatex, an animal-friendly alternative to leather made from pineapple waste. More

    Emma Tucker | 9 June 2016 | 10 comments

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