Many parts of the fashion industry, supported by the vegan lobby, continue to claim that non-leather alternatives are more desirable and sustainable than the real thing. The leather industry’s representative body in the European Union, COTANCE, has at long last decided to put some of the claims to the test with the help of testing and research centre FILK. The results were published earlier this year in a paper called the ‘Comparison of the Technical Performance of Leather and Trendy Alternatives’. Needless to say, the results come as no surprise.

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