“The True Cost” is filled with a lot of fashion industry truths. But one of the more disturbing truths it reveals is that more than 50 million animals are killed each year for leather.
The below clip features sustainable fashion icon Stella McCartney talking about the not-so-pretty or fashionable side of leather.
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