In this new series, Real Leather. Stay Different. explores Traditional Chinese Culture, combining the two ancient arts of bamboo weaving and leather craft.
Mr. Li, a designer, and Mr. Ma, a bamboo weaver, merge their talents to create a sustainable woven bag that draws on the craftsmen’s Chinese heritage.
If you love sustainability, love leather. It is a by-product of the dairy and meat industry that, if unused, would be wasted and thrown out to landfill.
Josslyn Shi from California College of Art has been crowned Overall Winner of the Real Leather. Stay Different. International Student Design Competition at a glittering final event held at the U.S. Embassy in London.
A lockdown leather entrepreneur with no experience in leather making? Meet David Mateus and his lockdown project Madstuffs that is well on its way to having some Real Leather cred!
Around this time last year, Real Leather. Stay Different. and L&HCA hosted one of the world’s biggest leather fashion shows in Shanghai. What better way to escape the recent global pandemic than flashing back to some never-seen-before images from the event!
Dr Martens, the boot and shoe manufacturer cherished by almost every youth cult of every generation for the last 60 years, has created a collection in tribute to Basquiat.
Many animal rights campaigners claim that the use of leather contributes to the death of animals, it is also claimed that farms exist purely for the creation of leather – can this be true?
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