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New York-based Orseund Iris offers year-round, edgy street-style renditions of ribbed bralets ideal for nights out at a club and zip-up jackets that discard any connotation with hippie vegan leather trends. While Ukrainian designer Iana Kuznietsova's brand Ochi (available at Net-A-Porter) has her work wardrobe covered in tailored faux-fur trench coats in sherbet and caramel hues.
For clean essentials that work on and off the job, Hungarian brand Nanushka's crisp shirts, midi dresses and minimalist sneakers (you can't tell they're not real leather) come with an added bonus. Not only are they cruelty-free, but all of Nanushka's vegan leather shirts and pants can be washed at 30 degrees. Brand founder Sandra Sandor – a graduate of the Budapest-based London College of Fashion – has prioritized sustainability in her designs since launching Nanushka in 2006, incorporating vegan leather in 2016. It's a decision that paid off : The vegan leather quilted puffer jacket you've probably seen on your Instagram is still one of their best sellers.
Look for tanned leather accessories subjected to vegetable dyeing
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Warning: The use of vegetable dyes (instead of various toxic substances, including chromium, cyanide, mineral salts and formaldehyde) to tan animal leather improves only one stage of a highly polluting process, but it is a step in the right direction towards more eco-conscious manufacturing. While a Google search for the phrase “vegetable dyed tanned leather jacket” doesn't yield many results, there are designers out there using the material for bags and shoes, with women taking the lead.
Mansur Gavriel – the Glossier of the leather goods world, founded by Floriana Gavriel and Rachel Mansur – designed the vegetable-dyed leather brandy bucket bag that went viral in 2014. They now create countless styles, all in keeping with their beloved minimalist aesthetic – and it's not just about bags, either. The New York-based brand's progressive inventory has since expanded to include shoes – also in vegetable-dyed tanned leather – and r_ready-to-wear_. Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, accessories brand Wandler (founded by Eliza Wandler) is busy crafting the next cult bag – launching vegetable-tanned leather as the new premium option, used to create its coveted Hortensia shoulder bag. .
