The contrast between leather and alternative materials is misleading: what matters is to decarbonize the supply chain, accelerate a circular system and protect workers
The question is: if leather is expelled from the fashion ecosystem, what will come next? Some fashion-brands certifications for sustainability-initiatives distract from true environmental impact. The need to standardize and measure sustainability in a unique way for all remains current. In support of universal standards for measuring impacts is the fact that navigating fashion’s oft-greenwashed landscape is complicated but the desire to buy better is alive and well. To hinder universal certifications there is the political and economic context. Certification schemes, all these brand-based ways of communicating impact trivialize the realities of the fashion supply chain: we need to recreate the future simply by starting to measure the reduction in energy and water used
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