Imitation leather or vegan leather shoes

It is from the 60's that an ideology in favor of the respect of the animal dignity begins to take the amplitude everywhere in the world, to begin with the United States and Canada: the veganism or vegetalism. If it mainly concerns food practices, consisting in not consuming any product resulting from animal exploitation, including honey and milk, veganism integrates other fields such as clothing (leather, wool or fur), jewelry (mother-of-pearl, pearls) or cosmetics (collagen or the refusal of tests carried out on animals). With time mentalities evolve, meat consumption decreases by 4% annually in France and in July 2017 it is the car manufacturer Tesla that abandons the leather option of its catalog.


Beyond the animalist consciousness, we must know that the leather industry is extremely polluting and that there are many abuses, especially in furniture, in the naming of the word leather. In France, the National Leather Council refuses that we can name an artificial material "vegan leather", the industrialists accept it only for what concerns the vegetable tanning.


It is also in the 60s that a German industrial group markets an artificial leather that is still used in clothing and furniture, the Skai. Fake leather, imitation leather, artificial leather, vegan or vegan are the different denominations of synthetic materials having the aspect of the animal skin. Synderm is the term used to designate materials recycled from leather scraps and skins.


Until now, it was mainly plastic derivatives, sometimes recycled, but now the industry is working to find more natural solutions and produce new materials with an appearance and characteristics increasingly similar to leather: Muskin (based on mushrooms), Piñatex (pineapple fibers) or cork fabric are some examples. More recently, the American startup Modern Meadow, which is also working on artificial meat, has developed a technique for producing cultured leather that offers the same characteristics as real leather. Another American laboratory has produced a material based on cellulose fibers recovered from fermented Kombucha tea.


Gothic and rock vegan shoes

L'Antre de Syria wanted to be animal-friendly and environmentally friendly and therefore decided to create two categories of men's and women's gothic rock shoes and fashion items made of vegan leather. You can find pumps, creepers, boots and ankle boots from Demonia, Hades Footwear, New Rock and Steelground with a total of more than 500 models of vegan gothic and rock shoes available on the store.