Scaling up, French firm fashions fish skins for luxury market | Malay Mail

A bow tie made with salmon leather is displayed at Ictyos’ showroom in its workshop in Saint-Fons, near Lyon, France, September 17, 2020. — Reuters pic

Turning fish skin into leather is an age-old craft. It is experiencing a revival — driven by its environmentally-friendly credentials — but has yet to break into the rarefied end of the fashion industry. “Salmon skin has a suppleness, and a finesse, it’s less than half a millimetre thick, but with a resistance which is nearly equivalent to cow leather,” said Benjamin Malatrait, one of the three friends, who co-founded a company called Ictyos.

“It has a grain which is more marked, with the scales that are a bit reminiscent of lizard,” he said at his firm’s workshop near the French city of Lyon. “Visually its quite exotic.”

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