OLIVE YOU 🫒
@oleatex is a next-generation material, featuring a biobased element known as “Biotex” derived from olive oil production waste in Turkey. This process sees the olive oil production waste being turned into a biopolymer, resulting in a triple-layered material with a bio-based PU top coating that is backed with cotton and viscose.
Composition: 65% PU, 23% Recycled Polyester, 7% Cotton, 5% Viscose.
Oleatex is part of our Fabric of the Future initiative, set up to research, develop and scale innovative materials that are paving the way for the future of fashion.
As you may have seen during our ‘FUTURE, TALENT’, FABRICS’ exhibition at CPHFW this January, we’ve been working closely with innovation partners to introduce next-gen leather alternative GANNI Bou Bags as part of our Fabrics of the Future initiative.
Materials like Celium by Polybion (bacteria grown leather alternatives), Savian by BioFluff (a plant-based fur alternative) and Oleatex ( a leather alternative based on olive oil production waste) are paving the way for the future of fashion and are on our roadmap.
We are still in the process of scaling some of these Fabrics Of The Future materials, but have already launched the GANNI Bou bag in Ohoskin last year, pictured here in black! Ohoskin is a bio-based material and luxury leather alternative made from waste streams of orange and cactus farming and recycled plastic.Each of the Ohoskin BOU bags has a composition consisting of 45% bio-attributed PVC with orange and cactus-based biopolymer, 40% green plasticizers, 15% Recycled polyester.*
*Disclaimer: The EU Fibre regulation allows only a selection of named and approved materials to be declared on the product/label. For legal reasons, the trademarked names for these Fabric innovations are not (yet) registered as a known fibre or input. This is what’s known as a ‘next-generation material’ and is therefore labelled in the composition differently.