Apple Is Breaking Up With Leather

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Apple on Tuesday announced it would no longer use leather in its new cases for iPhones, bands for Apples Watches, or other accessories due to the material’s outsized carbon footprint. Instead, Apple said it will transition to relying on “FineWoven,” a micro-twill textile the company claims is made up of 68%…

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Handbags and hats made of mushroom leather could become the next luxury items for brands like Hermès

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Designer wallets made of mushroom leather
MycoWorks makes is Reishi leather with mycelium, which can produce mushrooms.

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Everyone's Favorite Knife-Wielding Robot Returns in Next Week's Futurama

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Futurama’s new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week’s “How the West Was 1010001,” which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze.

How the scammer selling NYC socialites fake Birkins got caught

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George Mickum and Gillian Hearst pose at the YoungArts New York Gala at The Metropolitan Museum in 2022
George Mickum, pictured here with his former best friend Gillian Hearst, sold at least six fake Hermès bags to wealthy New Yorkers.

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The iconic Hermés Birkin handbag that costs north of $10,000 was conceived on an airplane sickness bag

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Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin sketched the first design of the Birkin handbag in 1981.

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A luxury buying spree is sending shares of companies like Gucci owner Kering and Hermes soaring

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Earn up to 6% cash back at multiple retail brands like Amazon, Walmart, and Chewy

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A fugitive billionaire just auctioned off $3.2 million worth of luxury handbags — see highlights from his prized collection

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crocodile birkin bag
A crocodile Birkin handbag, though not one of the bags that was sold at the Sotheby's auction.

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Luxury Handbag Maker Wins Trademark Lawsuit Against ‘MetaBirkin’ NFT Maker

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Look to your left, and see an image of a famed, extremely expensive luxury Birkin-brand handbag. On your right, is a non-fungible token, a digital image whose rights of ownership are recorded on a blockchain. On Wednesday, a jury in New York decided that these MetaBirkin NFTs were indeed a big ripoff of the famous…

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