Why We Choose Genuine Leather Over Faux

Honestly, faux leather would be easier.

It's lighter. It costs less. It's simpler to work with.

But we still choose genuine leather.

Would I want to use this for ten years?

When we're making something, we always ask ourselves the same question.

Would I actually want to use this for ten years?

Faux leather looks good. But when we imagine what it looks like a few years down the line, something doesn't sit right.

Cracking. Peeling. Usually nothing you can do about it.

Genuine leather is different.

It gets scratched. The colour shifts. But that becomes character.

It doesn't deteriorate — it settles in. It becomes yours.

That's a feeling we believe in.

What long-term use actually means

Sustainability is a word that gets used a lot.

But we think there's nothing more genuinely sustainable than simply using something for a long time.

A material you replace every few years, or a material you care for and keep using.

We know which one we want to make.

The reassurance of repairability

Genuine leather can be repaired.

You can condition it, restore it, bring it back. It stays with you over time.

Faux leather, when it goes — it's usually gone. There's no coming back from it.

That difference is bigger than it sounds.

Trusting our own judgment over the current conversation

Vegan leather exists, and we're not dismissing it.

But we choose materials we genuinely want to use ourselves.

We'd rather make a decision we believe in than follow a direction we don't.

For us, that answer was genuine leather.

We don't want to be a brand that follows the current. We want to be a brand that makes its own choices, by its own standards.

That's what we think responsibility in making things actually looks like.