As THE RUDAI is getting more and more conscious and looking to partner with more earth friendly organisations we have been introduced to FEMER - Fish Skin, being pioneered by Marielle Philip.....

Lost in the middle of oyster farming territory, on the harbour of La Teste-de-Buch and off the Arcachon Bay, Marielle Philip is tanning fish skins to turn them into leather. Her workshop is set up inside one of those little wooden cabins right by the water-a few feet away from the food stalls where tourists regularly show up to gorge themselves on oyster platters.

Inside Femer, her small leather-working shop, each object fits the nautical theme: yellow raincoats hanging on a rack, an old machine that fillets fish, a few water colors of boats, and her grandfather's fishing nets. In a corner, two big freezers stock the different fish, whose skins will soon become leather: bass, salmon, soles, trout, turbots, burbots, sturgeons, catfish, rays, mullets... The list is long-if it swims, it ends up on Marielle's workstation.

The art of fashioning leather out of fish skin wasn't invented yesterday. The artisanal craft has been practiced across the ages and across the globe. Marielle grew up at sea, accompanying her grandfather on fishing trips and helping with morning auctions. Marielle start their own leather-working shop, naming it Femer. Together with her mother, they developed an eco-responsible method that allows them to fabricate fish leather through a circular economy. For nearly two years, Marielle put on her chemist hat and concocted various vegetable tannin recipes, eventually arriving at a process that is 100-percent natural, with zero waste.

Tannin is the substance that is added in order to transform the skin into leather, rendering it supple and insoluble, and preventing it from rotting. Currently, industry professionals use mineral salts as tannin, such as chromium salts-chemical products that mix easily with other substances, and thus cut production times way down. Marielle opted for a more natural alternative, out of environmental concerns: "I use local invasive plants, such as crushed mimosa root bark, which is found all over the Aquitaine region," she explains. "I am always working on new vegetable tannin formulas. Choosing this process means that we are looking to remain as natural as possible, and obtain quality  leather," confesses Marielle, careful not to reveal too much of her secret recipes.

Why are we highlighting this to you???? kangaROOS will be utilising this artizanial technique on there upcoming colab with BISSO......

More info to follow......

LONG TIME FRIENDS & "CO-CONSPIRITORS" SIMON BARKER (original Bromley Contingent) and HIROSHI FUJIWARA both feature in the recent NUMERO EXTRA publication.

The feature was taken in Prague where Simon is based and discusses the long time friendship of these 2 influential and very down to earth figures.

There will be a very special capsule that has had the STAIN SHADE treatment from AKA SIX x FRAGMENT that will be exclusive to www.thebusinessfashion.com.

Our friends over at hitandrun.ltd have released a limited edition capsule with JOEVEXED from VEXED GENERATION "HUMAN 2".

Human 2 is a series of multiples created by JoeVexed to highlight the abysmal human rights records surrounding the Qatar World Cup. In the twelve years since the tournament was awarded, over six and a half thousand migrant workers have lost their lives due to human rights violations.

Creating mono-prints from a replica 2006 England World Cup shirt, before laser etching the image onto acrylic, Joe has hand press-printed an edition of sixty-six fully GOTS accredited organic cotton T-Shirts, in recognition of Moore, Hurst, et al.

The edition is split into three runs of 22, to represent the players on the pitch during a match, each in a distinct colour reflecting the England kit.

The edition will be priced at £114.95 to match the England Home Match Shirt which is manufactured in its millions.

10% of the sale price will be donated to Amnesty International.

Each artwork comes with a signed COA England badge print.

Head over to the site....

https://hitandrun.ltd/collections/joevexed-human-2

Showspace favourite MR THUNDERS has come together with Pineapple Records and Head Honcho Sam Binga for a limited run of LS Tee’s made from fully organic fair trade stock. The line has been hand printed in Bristol with prints to the front and back. And for the “Eagle Eyed” There is also a QR code embedded into the print that will take you direct to The Pineapple records back catalogue……..