Leather accounts for under 10% of Eram shoes
France-based group Eram, which comprises 10 clothing and footwear brands, has been running its own sustainability programme, Change for Good, since 2018.
Speaking at the Sustainable Leather Forum in Paris in September, Eram’s sustainable development director, Isabelle Desfontaines, said the group’s aim in running the programme is to show that “mass-market fashion” can be responsible as well as profitable. “Fashion will be circular or it will not exist,” Ms Desfontaines said.
She went on to say that, although the early focus of the group, founded in 1927, was on making and selling shoes, it now sells more clothes than footwear.
Furthermore, she said most of the shoes the group produces now have non-leather uppers. “We make around 30 million pairs of shoes per year now,” she explained, “and I would less than 10% of that volume is leather.”
