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Vegan fashion: Brazilian brand Insecta Shoes wants to take over EU and North America

It all started in 2014 at Urban Vintagers, a secondhand store in the city of Porto Alegre, in the southern tip of Brazil. Pam Magpali, then CEO of the now extinct eco-friendly shoe label MAG-P Shoes, couldn’t help but notice the pile of clothes that the store’s owner, Barbara Mattivy, had put aside for repair. She fell in love with the prints...

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Brave Gentleman founder Joshua Katcher on building a vegan menswear brand

“The handsomeness of an object should be matched by the handsomeness of how it was made.” That’s the ethos of Joshua Katcher, fashion designer and founder of Brooklyn-based vegan menswear brand, Brave Gentleman. Katcher, who has also taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college about the importance of sustainability, began his foray into the...

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Vegan fashion: Q&A with British brand Beyond Skin

UK brand Beyond Skin is on a mission to make cruelty-free fashion the way of the future. Founded in 2001, the Brighton-based footwear brand has had its fair share of challenges along the way, including the diminishing number of footwear suppliers in the UK, and the uphill struggle of forging out a new vegan market in the early 2000s. Since its...

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Vegan fashion: Q&A with mother-daughter brand HFS Collective

What do animal rights, fanny packs and female empowerment have in common? They’re all at the heart of HFS Collective’s vegan brand, of course. Founded in Los Angeles in 2012 by Debra Denniston and her daughter Rachel, HFS collective is an ethical and sustainable-driven brand that produces a selection of wallets and bags using solely vegan...