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Amazon fish leather is now fashion in NYC

(4 Nov 2022) ASSOCIATED PRESS New York – 25 October 2022 1. A worker walks in a showroom where customers can purchase purses made from the discarded skin of the pirarucu, an endangered fish native to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil 2. Various of blue bag made with pirarucu 3. Alison Moodie Collins, Piper & Skye Head of PR, tries one of the bags 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alison Moodie Collins, Piper & Skye Head of PR: "Pirarucu is one of our cornerstone materials for Piper and Sky. It's a large fish out of the Amazon that has been consumed by the community for centuries now. And once they were consumed, they took the skin and it was discarded as waste. We decided to take the skins that were discarded and bring them back to New York to create this luxury, beautiful bags that you have here. So really all circular in the sense from the consumption of the food to helping the community with the sustainable fishing and then being all manufactured right here in New York City." 5. Moodie Collins showing blue bag 6. Various of handbags made from pirarucu skin 7. Wide of street in Lower Manhattan ASSOCIATED PRESS New York – 2 November 2022 8. Alexander Dabagh, owner of Park Avenue International and Made by Alex, opens a box with pirarucu leather 9. Dabagh displaying pirarucu leather on a table 10. Various of Dabagh cutting pirarucu leather to make a handbag ASSOCIATED PRESS New York – 25 October 2022 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alison Moodie Collins, Piper & Skye Head of PR: "I think it's really important for consumers today to know where their product comes from. The more and more that we learn about sustainability, the more and more that consumers learn about sustainability. It becomes really important for them to know how it's made, what materials are being used. So we try to really get that material across to them and really be as transparent as possible." ASSOCIATED PRESS New York – 2 November 2022 12. Various of worker sewing leather 13. Various of Dabagh assembling handbag ASSOCIATED PRESS Tres Rios, Brazil – 11 October 2022 14. Aerial of Nova Kaeru tannery in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro ++MUTE++ 15. Various of Daniel Abruzzini, Nova Kaeru tannery PR, showing pirarucu skin from the Amazon 16. Close pirarucu skin 17. Various of wooden barrels where pirarucu skin becomes leather 18. Various of workers showing leather made of pirarucu 19. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Daniel Abruzzini, Nova Kaeru tannery PR: "Any accessory made of traditional leather can also be made with fish leather." 20. Various of pirarucu skin leather being straightened 21. Various of worker dyeing pirarucu skin 22. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Daniel Abruzzini, Nova Kaeru tannery PR: "We sell to international markets, the European fashion market, fashion weeks all over the world, big brands produce jackets. And an important share of our production goes to the American market." 23. Various of pirarucu leather being dried 24. Various colors of pirarucu leather STORYLINE A beautiful and unusual sustainable fish leather can now be found in upscale New York bags, Texas cowboy boots and fashion weeks all over the world. Sales of pirarucu leather products provide a livable income to hundreds of Amazon families who also keep the forest healthy because it protects their livelihood. On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the Nova Kaeru tannery processes about 50,000 skins from legally-caught giant pirarucu or arapaima fish a year. The leather is a byproduct of pirarucu meat, a staple food in the Amazon that is gaining new markets in Brazil's largest cities and may be headed for export. ---- ---- Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...