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Is fish skin the new frontier for eco-friendly fashion?

After 25 years working with luxury names like Moschino, Christian Dior, and Diane von Furstenberg, Elisa Palomino believes that a vital step in sustainability involves targeting seafood waste for the development of fashionable leather articles. She has just completed a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in the US, is currently a senior lecturer...

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Introducing the world's first trout leather espadrille

Let the scales fall from your eyes...A French shoe manufacturer is urging fashionistas to take the plunge with what he claims is the world's first range of trout skin espadrille shoes. Jean-Jacques Houyou has set out to persuade his compatriots that they should be wearing trout rather than merely eating them with a caper and black butter sauce....