Re-Fashioning Leather: A Study to Bring to the Fore a New Awareness of How a Specific Material (Leather) Does not have to be Finite as Nature

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Owen, K orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2517-4739 (2025) Re-Fashioning Leather: A Study to Bring to the Fore a New Awareness of How a Specific Material (Leather) Does not have to be Finite as Nature. Fashion Highlight (SI1). pp. 296-303.

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Abstract

This research, interrogates and offers insight into the potentiality of leather, emphasizing that it is time to re-align thinking, provoke introspection and challenge existing norms. The aim is to demonstrate the value in forming a prosperity fashion philosophy centered on a specific by-product (leather), which offers a more ethical and sustainable viewpoint. Examining and promoting creative circular initiatives integral to a specific sub-group and creating an open collaborative and cumulative knowledge transfer, it is hoped that these shared ideas and practices gain strength, to create a blueprint for a prosperity fashion philosophy. To provide an actualized possibility for re-alignments and new approaches for leather production, consumption, and value as a starting point for cultural discussion. Challenging the fast fashion industry by presenting a slow, flexible future where leather fashion become investments because of their flexibility, and durability. Urging us to collectively forge new systems that disrupt and replace the current destructive cycle. Decreasing the negative impact of fashion on the environment, and people, through a focus on the ultimate circular material.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Institute of Art & Technology (IAT); Leather; Nurture; Restore; Sustainable; Philosophy
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs > GT500 Costume. Dress. Fashion
Divisions: Art and Design
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Date of acceptance: 17 January 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access: 4 August 2025
Date Deposited: 04 Aug 2025 15:04
Last Modified: 04 Aug 2025 15:15
DOI or ID number: 10.36253/fh-3149
Editors: Owen, K
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26897
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