Following years of urging by PETA, Brooks Brothers, the oldest retailer in the US, has confirmed that it has stopped ordering products made with exotic-animal skins. The retailer also stopped purchasing mohair in 2018 in response to a PETA investigation of South African angora goat farms.
Denmark’s Ganni Unveils Bags Made With Plant-Based Fur Alternative BioFluff
Danish fashion brand Ganni has exhibited special edition bags made with a plant-based fur alternative at Copenhagen Fashion Week. The bags are based on the design of Ganni’s popular Bou bags, while the fur is made by biomaterials startup BioFluff. Claimed to be the world’s first fully plant-based fur alternative, the material is called Savian and contains fibres from plants such as nettles, flax, and hemp. It is entirely free of plastics and can be coloured using natural dyes. BioFluff raised $2.5 million in seed funding in November, in a round led by agrifood tech investor Astanor Ventures. Ganni also unveiled bags made from two other innovative materials at Copenhagen Fashion Week. One is manufactured using Celium, a leather alternative produced by Spanish biomaterials company …