Bag brand pays tribute to lowest-carbon leather
Accessories brand Mulberry has launched a new capsule collection of bags, which it has created using “the world’s lowest-carbon leather”. It has called it The Lowest Carbon Collection.
It sourced the leather from Muirhead, part of Scottish Leather Group, which Mulberry announced in April as a partner in a wider strategy called ‘Made To Last’.
Bags in the Lowest Carbon capsule collection were crafted in Mulberry’s carbon neutral Somerset factories. They are versions of the brand’s Soft Small Amberley satchel, created using Muirhead’s Hawthorn heavy grain leather. They are available in cornflower blue, coral orange, black and charcoal.
Managing director of the leather manufacturer, Nicholas Muirhead, said the low-carbon, soft and supple leather the company produces can help customers in the fashion industry, including in the high luxury segment, reduce their carbon intensity. “We are delighted to form a strategic partnership with Mulberry,” he said, “and to support their sustainable and responsible business goals.”
Muirhead has calculated the carbon footprint of its leather at 1.1 kilos of CO2-equivalent per hide. It says it has been able to achieve this by building close relationships with local farmers, using its own thermal energy plant to generate heat from waste, and by maximising water usage by filtering and recycling 40% of wastewater back into leather production.
This partnership with Muirhead is part of the wider ‘Made To Last’ strategy, through which Mulberry hopes to transform its business to a regenerative and circular model, encompassing the entire supply chain.
Chief executive, Thierry Andretta, said the new capsule collection was a good example of the regenerative ‘farm to finished product’ ranges that this strategy will deliver. “The collection represents the future of the business,” he said.
