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Many vegan materials are still petroleum-based. Plastic, polyurethane, synthetics designed to mimic leather… They may spare animals, but they don’t disappear when we’re done with them. They shed. They persist. They accumulate.

A lot of emerging designers are creating for an imagined customer instead of a real one. In many cases, they’re designing for a version of themselves that doesn’t actually exist in real life. That disconnect shows up in the product.

If you want to sell a theme park–level experience, you can’t build it on Amazon and AliExpress costumes. The difference is in the assets you invest in — pieces that are engineered to perform, photograph well, and hold up under real use.