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Luxury labels Melina Bucher and Lotta Ludwigson launch Mirum capsule collection

What happens when a slow fashion luxury brand for women meets a vegan bag manufacturer? The two combine their strengths and values to create a product that exhibits all these characteristics: conscious luxury, no compromises when it comes to quality and avoiding waste, all for a more sustainable fashion industry. The result is a collection named...

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Melina Bucher launches first completely bio-based, plastic-free bag

When FashionUnited spoke to Melina Bucher, founder of the eponymous label and Germany's first vegan bag manufacturer, in March this year, a novelty was already on the horizon: a 100 percent bio-based product. Now, with the new “Dreamer” bag, a dream has actually come true. After years of development and collaboration with material innovators...

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Vegan label and bag maker Melina Bucher: “Leather or plastic is out of the question”

Last year, German luxury bag label Melina Bucher opened its own master bag maker’s workshop, a skilled craft that traditionally specialises in leather processing. What is different, however, is that the young company specialises entirely in vegan and bio-based materials, making it the first and only one of its kind in Germany. The aim is to...

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First vegan bag maker starts in Germany

German label Melina Bucher has recently opened its own master bag maker's workshop. What is remarkable about this is that it specialises entirely in vegan and bio-based materials. The term “bag maker” refers to people who specialise in working with leather, which traditionally means animal leather. At Melina Bucher, however, traditional...