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Unlike fur, leather is a byproduct of meat.
"It's an item that harkens back to everything Fendi was at the beginning" — fur, leather and rich adornment, said Michael Burke, the chief executive of Fendi.
Armani joins Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren in switching to synthetic alternatives, while British designer Stella McCartney has long followed a "vegetarian" philosophy, shunning fur, leather and feathers.
The nine-part series, which begins on Sunday on the History channel, is a cousin of all those premium-cable shows — "Game of Thrones," "Spartacus" — in which men in various combinations of fur, leather and armor hack one another to death with primitive weapons, and women are randomly naked and frequently abused.
The 3.1 Phillip Lim collection was smarter at capturing the perky individuality of the way women dress today: a magpie mix of color and fabrics, as layers of Neoprene in bubble gum pink would be stirred in with fur, leather, camel coating fabrics, motor bike peplums and angora knits.
Currently, keratinous wastes from poultry, fur, leather, and slaughter industries are gradually causing serious environmental problems (Korniłłowicz-Kowalska and Bohacz 2011; Onifade et al. 1998).
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Artificial furs, leather footwear, and sewn goods also are produced.
Findings in burial mounds at Pazyryk in southern Siberia, 2,400 years old, indicate that furs, leather, woven textiles, and felts were used, not as floor coverings, but as wall hangings.
Other valuable commodities were exchanged in the Black Sea region, including textiles, jewelry, and wine from East Rome for the furs, leather, and slaves offered by the barbarians, yet silk remained the commodity of prime interest.
The outfits are on display anyway: the men in expensive suits, with an occasional raffish scarf at the throat instead of a necktie; the women in furs, leather and shoes not made for walking.
Long before the modern fast fashion era furs, leathers and other animal products were worn and used for practical reasons: warmth mainly, but also protection, durability and in some cases simply because other materials weren't readily available.
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