While leather is considered to be ethical since the source of hides is from animals already in the food chain, the leather production process is both chemical and water-intensive, and the byproducts ...

Series A funding is led by Agronomics; other investors include BESTSELLER's Invest FWD, global luxury group Kering, Khosla Ventures, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, New Agrarian, and ...

Mushroom “leather” could offer a sustainable alternative to traditional cattle-raised leather. Credit: MycoWorks. Having been in the market for a millennium, the leather industry is well established.

Italian brand names such as Gucci and Prada have become synonymous with style and high fashion around the world. But in Italy the leather goods that have made these designer brands so popular mean ...

Leather is used as a durable and flexible material in many aspects of everyday life including furniture and clothing. Leather substitutes derived from fungi are considered to be an ethical and ...

Leather can be considered a co-product of meat production with both livestock farming and the leather production process increasingly considered to be ethically questionable and environmentally ...