Özet:

Since the half of the 20th century, new and current production techniques have emerged in textile surface creation methods thanks to both material diversity and technical developments. These production techniques offer ecological, sustainable alternatives that do not harm nature and living things. Vegan leather, one of the new techniques, is included in non-woven surfaces that can be used instead of leather obtained from animals with many raw materials. The use of vegan leather, which has been preferred by designers recently, has reduced the negative effects of standard production methods such as the decrease in animal resources in the world, the increase in water consumption, and greenhouse gasses. In addition, it has become a current sustainable alternative as an attitude against speciesism. In this study, the contribution of vegan leather to sustainable fashion, which is an opposing view to the understanding of fast consumption, has been researched in the direction of usage areas, production methods and raw material sources, in the synthesis of the information obtained after the literature review on vegan leather. In addition, examples of designs made using vegan leather will add visual richness to the subject. By applying the trace analysis method, which is one of the qualitative research methods, the concept of sustainability is based on vegan leather production. The limitation of the study is the produced vegan leather fabrics and the designs made from them. This research will be a source for later studies on vegan leather by developing an awareness of the concepts of recycling, proper use of resources, slow fashion, ecological textiles in textile production methods.

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