Handbags made from mushroom leather and vegan-friendly football boots – Stella McCartney is attending COP26 to introduce her sustainable solutions and technologies to world leaders in the hope that they will draw up environmentally friendly and cruelty-free policies for the unregulated fashion industry.
Stella said in an interview at COP26: “I want to highlight my industry and call it out, we’re one of the most harmful industries in the world to the environment and what I’m doing here is trying to provide sustainable solutions and technologies and a better way of doing things.”
Items on display at her eco-fashion installation include handbags made from mushrooms and vegan-friendly football boots all designed to highlight the fashion industry's role in fighting the climate crisis.
Stella, the daughter of rock and roll icon Paul McCartney and the late photographer and vegetarian pioneer Linda McCartney, is recognized globally as a passionate environmental activist.
Just days before the Global Conference on Climate Change began she posted a video that exposes the unspeakable cruelty used in the industry saying,”Stopping the use of animal leather and fur has been our cause since day one. Not enough has changed. We need new energy, urgency, and a global platform like #COP26. If we want to save all our skins, we must end these horrific practices. Join us by signing our petition to end the use of animal leather and fur now (link in bio).” #StellaMcCartney @COP26UK @PETA
As Stella says in the caption posted alongside this clip of her arrival at the conference, "We do not have a moment –or planet– to waste".
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