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☆ What’s in a Name? For These Design Brands, Generations of Expectations.
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Stephen Treffinger | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Antoine, 43, joined in 2006 as an executive vice president overseeing Ligne Roset’s North American division. Ligne Roset has long collaborated with emerging designers, and the pair considers putting money into equipment to support new design an essential component for moving forward. “It is key for a manufacturer who wants to be at the forefront of design and development,” Antoine said. In collaboration with a California biotechnology company called MycoWorks, the cousins are developing a new type of vegan leather made from mushrooms. Other companies are experimenting with alternatives to hides, they noted, but Ligne Roset wants to be the first to have a sustainable vegan leather on permanent offer in their products.
Persons: Antoine, Olivier, Ligne Roset, ” Antoine, Michel Ducaroy Organizations: Ligne, North Locations: Briord, France, California, Togo
☆ Handbags and hats made of mushroom leather could become the next luxury items for brands like Hermès
  + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The company will open its first commercial plant in September to supply luxury brands like Hermès. Fashion brands are investing in materials that don't use animals or plastic to meet climate goals. Many fashion brands have set climate goals and are searching for sustainable substitutes to animal- or plastic-based leather and other textiles with high carbon footprints. An Hermès bag made of MycoWorks' mycelium leather. She sees a luxury fashion house like Hermès as an ideal pioneer for alternative leather because the brand's status is based in part on scarcity.
Persons: MycoWorks, Matt Scullin, Coppie Barbieri, Scullin, Stella McCartney, Dan Widmaier, haven't, Anne Higonnet, Hermès, Birkin, Higonnet, Reishi, That's Organizations: Service, Ligne, General Motors, Adidas, Vogue Business, New York's Barnard College, Consumers Locations: Wall, Silicon, San Francisco, South Carolina
☆ First on CNN: GM investing in mushroom leather startup
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN Business —General Motors’ venture capital arm has invested in a California startup that’s making imitation leather from mushrooms. It could provide an alternative to both traditional leather made from animal skins, usually cattle, and artificial leather made from plastics. The resulting material feels like leather, has similar durability and can be colored using processes that do not involve harmful substances, just as animal-based leather can. Using various processes company representatives declined to discuss, the mycelia are made to interweave as they grow, forming the leather-like material. MycoWorks and GM Ventures both declined to say how much GM Venture is investing.
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