Hermès Is Tripping On Mushrooms
Hermès Is Tripping on Mushrooms
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Hermès is on mushrooms, not the psychedelic kind however. The French heritage brand is pioneering the use of a mushroom-based leather as an alternative to real leather, Business of Fashion reports.
One of Hermès classic designs, the Victoria Bag, is now available in a mix of canvas, calfskin, and
Sylvania, a new form of Mycelium produced by California start-up MycoWorks that has been in development for the last three years.
When one considers Hermès, there s a couple of things that spring to mind: silk scarves, fragrances, and critically, heaps of high-end leather goods. The brand s logo a horse pulling a cart speaks to its origins making saddlery and fine equestrian leather goods back when it was founded by Thierry Hermès in 1801.