Today, fashion has become a very important and integral part of our lives. Use the clothes simply to dress, to transmit a message, to express an idea or to demonstrate that we are being harmed by a group or a social environment. Sin embargo, we also recognize that the manufacturing sector is one of the most contaminants in the world removed from the petroleum sector. However, there are many innovations that arise in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way to compete with professionals. fast-fashion » and direct the designers to the “ slow fashion", el upcycling and recycling, as it is the primary materials used in eco-responsible agriculture.
Between 2000 and 2014, production was duplicated to reach 100.000 million sales worldwide, including 2.500 million in France. On the other hand, the industry manufactured 80.000 million in clothing prices, of which 700.000 were manufactured in France every year. Therefore, our children have a loss of clothing in which the cutting rate represents between 20 and 30% of the items not used, but the pieces that we do not understand nor use their resources that we do not want to do so.
In recent years, consumers have always been more aware of what they come from and what they say in their eyes, because it is natural to question what is happening and with the appearance of social laws, it is easier to denounce unacceptable practices, like animal crime, trafficking and deforestation.
As a concern for awareness, this is the culprit of deforestation and contamination because it is a by-product of the food industry that almost always offers more meat. ¡Pero están surgiendo alternativas con una propuesta sorprendente y colorida! In 2019, a new business was born in Lyon and quickly found a hue among the largest to propose a traditional French saber in curtidos vinculado to an eco-responsible enfoque desarrollado en torno a tres pilares to preserve the biodiversity: the recycling of the marinas, the no. cry for animals to use your skin and do not use any species in the fire. Así introduced himself start-up Ictyos, the number comes from the ancient griego « ichtus“, what does “pez” mean and it was formed by three young chemical engineers: Benjamin, Gauthier and Emmanuel, deseosos de contrarnativas al cuero para los artículos de lujo del futuro.
Over the years, and for many years of intense investigation and development, we have established a virtuoso cycle in collaboration with the agro-food industry through logistics that focuses on offering rare and precious pieces with colorful hechizantes, initially from sushi preparations. With a rigorous process, the team uses to select the cells, following your preparation. You come to the natural curing stage, the recurtido to nourish and dye the leather, before the palizado stage which consists of stripping the skin to pass the processing stage which offers the leather its final appearance (brillante, satinado, seco, graso and other options).
Today, Ictyos is recognized in the leather goods and relojería sectors to offer some of the finest and most resistant shoes in the world, which are refined with the times.
“Hemos created our new propio process for manufacturing vegetable curtidos. A unique recipe that allows us to obtain a hypoallergenic leather, with a wooden oil that is to be made with the time”, explained Emmanuel Fourault, co-founder of Ictyos.
Thomas Durin
