We are so much happy and proud to have won the Green Product Award Fashion 2023 with our vegan & sustainable luxury designer bag AMY made from strawberries #berriestex 🤩🍓🥂by editor’s choice!
“AMY is a good example for the level of quality and passion, our nominees are contributing to a more sustainable future.” Nils Bader, Director of the Green Product Award Fashion.
GREEN PRODUCT AWARD FASHION 2023
Our Materials
We are proud to can claim that we do always use the most innovative vegan ethical and sustainable Materials in the world and combine them into our handbags and accessories so unique Pieces of art are created - Since 2012.
You can read that in our Presse releases of the last years.
Christine Rochlitz, our founder and Head-Designer started using cork for the collections because it looks and feels like real leather and can be embossed to have the snake or crocodile print. But there were so many more innovative ecological vegan materials to find.
As a real crazy „material stalker“ she found the most innovative ecological vegan materials in the world as the sewable wood and slate stone, Apple Skin (Made from Apples), Piñatex (made from Pineapple fibers), Muskin (made from mushrooms), Malai (made from Coconuts), Desserto (Cactus "Leather"), Mango "Leather" (Fruitleather Rotterdam), silver colored washable paper, foldable ceramic that can be cut by scissor for making jewelry to name a few that are used now for fashion, years ago.
After two years of tough work, the British Vogue contacted her and wanted to present Christine and the brand LUCKYNELLY as one of the new talented designers in the world. The unique style also attracted attention and recognition at the British ELLE, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, which published in printed issues.
{Peta Approved Vegan}
CITRUSTEX - VEGAN LEATHER
Berlin based designer Christine Rochlitz and founder of the vegan and sustainable luxury designer handbags and accessories brand LUCKYNELLY – BERLIN has developed an innovative vegan material made from tangerine peels which offers a new alternative to (exotic) leathers. Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The almost white inner peels (the mesocarp or albedo) contain large amounts of pectin and are therefore also used for industrial pectin extraction. The pectin performs a firming and water-regulating function and contributes to the stabilization of the vegan leather. Its properties as a thickener, protective colloid and stabilizer are also used in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to increase the viscosity and stability of emulsions and suspensions and to create various gels, creams and pastes.
Citrustex (citrus/textile) is a vegan and sustainable material made from tangerine peels or other citrus fruits waste.
The tangerine peels are mixed with different vegan and organic ingredients and becomes water resistent and durable through covering with a special plant oil-based liquids and plant based waxes.
CITRUSTEX is 100% organic and sustainable and and DOES NOT CONTAIN PLASTICS such as PVC or PU.
The finished material is flexible, sewable and has an interesting pattern in a yellowish-orange color.
The material can be used for the manufacture of unique, vegan luxury handbags or jewelry.
Handmade in Berlin.
Open for collaboration.
Photos by Christine Rochlitz©
Berriestex - VEGAN LEATHER
Berlin based designer Christine Rochlitz and founder of the vegan and sustainable luxury designer handbags and accessories brand LUCKYNELLY – BERLIN has developed an innovative vegan material made from overripe strawberries waste, which offers a new alternative to (exotic) leathers.
Berriestex (berries/textile) is a vegan and sustainable material made from strawberries or other berries waste as overripe strawberries and their leaves stems and leaves.
The strawberries waste is mixed with different vegan and organic ingredients and becomes water resistent and durable through covering with a special plant oil-based liquid.
BERRIESTEX is 100% organic and sustainable. The finished material is flexible, sewable and is reminiscent of ostrich leather, due to the cores that can be seen in the finished material and impart a special structure.
The material can be used for the manufacture of unique, vegan luxury handbags or jewelry.
Handmade in Berlin.
Open for collaboration.
Find out more here.
Photos by Christine Rochlitz©
CABBTEX - VEGAN LEATHER
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