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...Throughout the event Apple touted its environmental credentials, saying it would no longer use leather in any of its accessories....
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...Topi has also adapted his services to embrace new footwear trends: in addition to polishing leather shoes (£8) and cleaning suede (£12), he now also offers a trainer service (£15)....
...Among the individual highlights is a set of nine painted leather panels, “The Triumph of David”, made by a follower of Rembrandt in the second half of the 17th century, bought by James from the Schloss Weissenstein...
...American designer Sonique Saturday, founder of Saturday House, launched her “You Fake Like This Birkin” bag design in 2015, a vegan leather carryall bag with a shape similar to the Hermès Birkin bag painted...
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...begun haemorrhaging sales to China, factories such as those of Forward and Vision expanded from hand-stitching balls with cheap labour to techniques such as “thermo bonding”, in which the balls’ synthetic leather...
...My favourite brand is Bottega Veneta, the luxury leather goods house that made its strapline “when your own initials are enough”, and even though I can’t really afford to buy anything from the label, the...
...Perhaps one of the best was Croda, a Yorkshire business that extracted lanolin — the grease found in sheep wool — for cosmetics, leather dressing and as a waterproofing agent....
...He paces around his suburban New Jersey home as I talk, then settles into a leather couch....
...suffered greater economic damage from coronavirus than any other world region, according to the IMF, Galperin says the pandemic only accelerated what he set out to do in 1999 from the garage of his family’s leather...
...executive Jonathan Akeroyd will succeed Gobbetti at Burberry in April, where he’ll be tasked with evolving — or redirecting — Gobbetti’s five-year plan to take Burberry upmarket and make it a serious player in leather...
...Startup Girl has helped fund 11 women-led companies to date, including Sea Star, a water-shoe company; Pepper, which makes underwear; and Bouches, which makes South African leather goods....
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...Recommended reading Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Adopting a global carbon price is essential (FT) Luxury fashion must ditch leather to be truly ethical (FT) Biden paves way for ESG retirement funds in reversal...
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