Some of those businesses have a sustainability focus, such as the company
“Since 2008, the Ella tote has been one of Tory Burch’s most iconic, well-loved handbag styles,” notes Catherine Roggero-Lovisi, CEO of Modern Meadow. “It is a great example of a growing movement towards ‘next-gen’ materials that take inspiration from nature but are engineered to have a lower environmental impact,” Gootman adds.
“You have to raise an animal in a field using up water, gas and creating greenhouse emissions and then transfer the hide half way around the world,” Forgacs added.interviewer Katie Hope, a substantial amount of leather is unusable, partly due to scars and other injuries sustained by the animal before slaughter. Still more can be wasted in the search for a desired pattern, for example in alligator and crocodile skins.