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The story behind the name - Vakigrad

In the early 1970s, my parents immigrated from Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia to Denmark. Almost a decade after their arrival to...

The woman who made me understand sustainability

Words matter. One of those I hold most dear is sustainability. For that reason I feel obliged not to use the word in vain. And for the...

Consumers, not people, impose danger to the planet

It is not the number of people on the planet that causes a challenge to the planet, but the number of consumers and their consumption....

Why zippers are essential to product quality for longevity

Through our sustainable principle product quality for longevity, Vakigrad aims at increasing the lifecycle of our products. Zippers have an

The horror of making water a luxury good

Water creates a provoke-awakening dilemma that we at Vakigrad have put a lot of thought into. According to the United Nations access to clea

This is why slowing fashion cycles is key

The fashion industry symbolizes - perhaps more than any other sector - today’s buy-and-throw-away-consumerism. Slow fashion makes an...

Chrome-tanned leather is bad for the environment

For more than 150 years, chrome-tanning, has been the most wideused process to produce leather. Today 90 percent of the world's leather pro

Vegetable tanning is worth its price

To make leather, first the skin needs to undergo a tanning process in which its proteins are converted into a stable material. It is the tan

What organic carrots and sustainable fashion have in common

Since the postmodern emergence of the organic movement, retailers have felt the need to differentiate organic products from their...

How the fashion industry can ease its ecological debt

Are you one of those who believe that luxury customers are people swearing to a hedonic lifestyle? You are partly right. But if you believe

Luxury customers appreciate social values

Are you one of those who believe that luxury customers are people swearing to a hedonic lifestyle? You are partly right. But if you believe

Sustainable fashion pioneers reject aesthetic sacrifices

Until recently, the sentiment of sustainable behaviour suggested a puritanical approach to ethical consumption. One that sees sustainability

90% of leather causes risk to human health

Remember Erin Brockovich? Known by many from the biographical movie in which she was portrayed by Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich fought agai

Superior sustainable leather goods

Vakigrad’s ambition for superior sustainable leather goods rests on three pillars: timelessness for style; product quality for longevity; an

Timelessness for style

At Vakigrad we design superior sustainable leather goods with an objective to keep style relevance capable of enduring changes in fashion. W

Cleaner materials

At Vakigrad we continue to develop and search for materials for our sustainable leather goods that have less damaging impact on the environm

Product quality for longevity

By developing leather that looks beautiful year after year of proper usage. By finding materials, such as quality zippers, that last longer.

A sustainable lesson for the price of 4500 liters of water

That's far from sustainable and why I have come to learn that cleaner materials won't make it alone to fulfill Vakigrad’s quest for superior

Oneskin bag - designed for work, for everyday and for a night out.

Source: Bloomberg By Moti Ankari Call it the 'Carry Case' and consider it your new best friend, Moti said. Vakigrad agrees that men dont ne

Whispering has more impact than shouting

Coco Chanel once famously stated: “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”...

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