While ethical textiles are rare within the fashion industry — which is notorious for glamorizing leather, wool, fur, feathers, silk and so on — there were corners of Manhattan where life was respected during this installation of New York Fashion Week, with clothing, accessories and cuisine absent the standard speciesist ingredients.
Though the list of exclusively compassionate companies featured during NYFW is frustratingly finite, two contemporary fashion brands and one packaged food brand stand out from the static, supplying an antidote to the death-draped runways and cruelty-laden plates conscientious consumers are accustom to being repeatedly disappointed and bored by, season after season.
Enter Arden Wohl x Cri de Coeur, Brave GentleMan and Gardein. Representing, respectively, chic handbags and footwear for women; dapper menswear; and delicious plant protein, these three names the past several days delighted vegans and non-vegans alike, and are without a doubt paving the way for the future.
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