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But in 2018, fake leather is no longer a consolation prize. In fact, vegan leather (we don’t call it pleather anymore), is a status symbol, with up-and-coming brands like Gunas, Matt & Nat, Von Holzhausen, and Sole Society offering bags that look and feel almost exactly like real leather, without any of the associated guilt that — it being 2018 — many people now feel while wearing animal hide. These brands offer a wide variety of wallets, clutches, handbags, and luggage, at price points averaging around $250 — roughly what my mother paid for her Patricia bag in the 1980s. On the designer end, Stella McCartney, Comme des Garçons, and Maison Margiela offer vegan options that can easily swing over $1,000. What all these brands have in common is that they have tapped into a very millennial take on what makes a bag special. And when it comes to luxury leather handbags, it’s no longer about having the real thing, but making a conscious decision not to.
My mom’s notion that fake leather was synonymous with garbage was not wrong, per se. A 2009 report from the Center For Environmental Health found dangerously high amounts of lead in a number of faux leather bags from leading retailers, such as Forever 21, Aldo, and Kohl’s, just to name a few. Historically, the majority of fake leather was made by coating a fabric such as canvas with polyvinyl chloride, more commonly known as PVC, which Greenpeace once dubbed “the most environmentally damaging type of plastic,” for the toxic chemicals that go into it. Also, it’s impossible to recycle. Even though real leather seems more durable and long-lasting than its imitators, those pleather baby backpacks and mini-skirts will sit in landfills long after we’re gone. Quite literally, the ‘90s are never going away. (Not exactly the kind of longevity one associates with a top-dollar investment piece.) Personalized Apothecary Tonics And Tingrures Poster
Despite this horrifying fact, leading environmental experts tend to agree: With very few exceptions, synthetic leather is absolutely better for the environment than the real thing.
In 2017, The Pulse Of The Fashion Industry (which was funded, in part, by designer and environmental crusader Stella McCartney) released a monumental report at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit condemning leather as one of the biggest contributors to water depletion and global warming. In 2014, Gizmodo wrote that as well as leather factories drastically harming the ecosystems in which they’re placed, tannery workers face hazardous conditions, including exposure to “noxious chemicals; injury from heavy machinery or flaying knives; drowning, being boiled alive, or buried in lime.” And that’s not even touching what the cows go through.
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