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A stunning collab
Christchurch-based Trade Aid product developer Emma Price has the coolest job and one of her latest projects to materialise is a range of handbags she helped design. The range features casually sophisticated soft leather handbags and wallets designed with the Kiwi consumer in mind. The project was a collaboration between Trade Aid and EMA (Equitable Marketing Association), an artisan co-operative based near Kolkata, India. Price spent months working alongside the leather artisans who work with EMA to create these styles. Careful consideration was given to detailing, practical usefulness and high-quality, sustainably sourced leather.
Trade Aid obtains most of its leather from West Bengal, where the leather is renowned for its superior quality. The leather is purchased from well-known tanneries, who mainly specialise in the manufacture of eco-friendly leathers and restrict the use of chemicals that are harmful to either humans or the environment.
Deadly Ponies goes vegan
Covetable accessories brand Deadly Ponies can now cater to vegan fashionistas with the launch of its newest and most innovative collection, Cactus. The range, which has been two years in the making, is made from plant-based nopal textile, a newly developed cactus leather. “Customers have been asking us for a while to create a vegan product,” says Deadly Ponies creative director Liam Bowden. “This is something we have wanted to
