Featured Amount $99.00—JW PEI Women's Dara Faux Suede Hobo Bag.
This is where biotechnology meets haute couture in the most confusing way. — JW PEI Women's Dara Faux Suede Hobo Bag — $99.00 While it's hot. It doesn't smell like animal hide, nor does it have the sharp, sterile scent of synthetic polymers. It is the confused, heavy fragrance of transformation. It is hard to reconcile the vivid, temporary stain of fermenting grape skins—the remnants of vinification—with the promise of a durable textile. This baffling alchemy, known formally as Vegea, utilizes the enormous quantities of pomace, the solid refuse left after grapes are pressed for wine. Oils and cellulose fibers are meticulously extracted from this waste, traditionally meant only for disposal, and reconstructed into a pliable, leather-like material. That a byproduct so intrinsically linked to agriculture and decay can be reborn as the foundation of a ...