Fashioning The Pandemic

In Conversation with the Queen of Gator, Christy Plott Part 2


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 In Part Two of a two-part conversation, host Sarah Collins and Creative Director and Partner of American Tanning & Leather, Christy Plott discuss sustainability in the exotic leather industry and the luxury goods industry and COVID’s effect on Fashion’s Effort to be more sustainable. 

 Resources mentioned in this episode: 

 International Crocodilian Farmers Association: https://www.internationalcrocodilian.com/about/ 

Cites: https://cites.org/eng    

Article on Gucci’s Transparency (2018): https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/sustainability/social-goods-gucci-versace-among-least-transparent-brands-stella-mccartney-on-sustainability

LVMH Life 360: https://www.lvmh.com/group/lvmh-commitments/social-environmental-responsibility/life-initiative-lvmh/

UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals 

How governments like Louisiana guarantee legality, a chain of custody,  and transparency to alligator leather users:   https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/assets/Resources/Publications/Alligator/Governments_Role_in_Supply_Chain_Sustainability_Traceability_and_Verification_for_American_2019-1.pdf

A case study by the association of fish and wildlife agencies:  https://www.fishwildlife.org/application/files/5415/1388/9474/Alligatorwebsite.pdf

US Fish and Wildlife Service article:  https://www.fws.gov/international/articles/a-cites-sustainable-trade-success-story-alligator-recovery-and-trade.html

 

State of Louisiana’s annual report for scientific alligator management from their biologists: 

https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/assets/Resources/Publications/Alligator/2018-2019_Alligator_Annual_Report.pdf

 

Other articles written by scientists discussing bans of exotic leathers: 

https://www.iucn.org/crossroads-blog/201903/banning-exotic-leather-bad-reptiles

 https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/op-ed-why-chanels-exotic-skins-ban-is-wrong


Instagram accounts:
@louisianaalligators for Louisiana Alligator Advisory Council

@CITES for CITES

@americantanning for American Tanning & Leather

@queenofgator for Christy Plott


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