Miomojo is an award-winning vegan handbag range, founded by a fashion professional who used her experience to create something wonderful using fruit and other plant leathers.
Sent in sustainable packaging, you’ll also find bags made with apple, pineapple and even mycelium leather (mushroom leather!) Made ethically in audited factories, the styles are varied with different colours.
Apple leather is one of the new so-called ‘fruit leathers’ that combines Microfiber with apple waste from the Italian fruit industry. It’s not totally biodegradable yet, but getting there!
Far better than real leather, which is usually polluting to make, and from animals used in the Far East leather trade, where there are few animal welfare laws.
Invest in one or two of these bags, to last you years. Look out for regular sale bargains. The company also make matching camera bags.
Most materials are sourced within 300km of headquarters, and the company gives 10% of the sale price to animal welfare causes worldwide with each purchase (and also donates 10% off from their offline business).
It also uses profits to help independent animal sanctuaries, including one in Rome (founded by a former farmer who underwent a ‘transformation’ to animal rescuer!)
He used to sell lambs and after hearing their cries, he bought them back for double the price, and now saves lambs from Easter lunch, to live out their lives in peace. Bravo Massimo!
These bags need to be carefully cared for, due to featuring high amounts of bio-content. Store in the included dust bags away from direct sunlight, heat and keep well ventilation, and stuff with clean paper when not in use.
You can use a damp cloth to carefully clean the linings and then leave to air dry, removing stains with a damp cloth and mild soap and water. Avoid grease, solvents or strong grease.
Why Choose Vegan Handbags?
Vegan handbags are made from sustainable alternatives to real leather, which is often made in countries with poor animal (and human) welfare, and causes pollution due due to the tanning process. Vegan leather is also easy to wipe-clean.
It takes 17,000 litres of fresh water to make 1kg of leather. 80% of leather is tanned with chrome that is toxic to tannery workers, plus animals suffer (20% of the Amazon rainforest is already gone, with cattle ranching the main cause).
Cattle farming is by far the biggest contributor to CO2 emissions in livestock farming, causing 60% of all emissions, and over 65% of leather is from cows.
