Lakme Fashion Week & PETA India, Indian fashion designers pledge to go leather-free on the World Fashion Day

29th August 2021, Mumbai:

Urged by the Lakme Fashion Week and PETA India, thirty-two Indian fashion designers pledged to go leather-free on the World Fashion Day on August 21. The designers include Gaurav Gupta, House of Masaba by Masaba Gupta, Jade by Monica and Karishma, péro by Aneeth Arora, Ranna Gill and Shyamal & Bhumika.

The pledge has also been taken by other designers including Sonaakshi Raaj, Siddartha Tytler, Rina Dhaka, Vikram Phadnis, Rocky Star, Atsu Sekhose, Dev R Nil, and Bloni by Akshat Bansal have also taken the pledge. Anita Dongre and Purvi Doshi have been leather-free for a while

Vegan leather can be made with materials as varied as cork, mangoes, coconut, pineapple leaves, recycled plastic, mushrooms, tomato composite, grapes, and discarded temple flowers. In addition to saving animals, these options avoid the environmental and societal costs associated with animal-derived leather, including greenhouse-gas emissions, deforestation to raise cows and toxic tannery waste that pollutes the Ganges and harms tannery workers.

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