Fashion: Carried with a conscience
Irish designer Lorna Burton's range of CoraLlei handbags combines the best of ethical sourcing and design, writes Ruth O'Connor.
Lorna Burton's bags are beautiful, architectural and Italian-made, but what might surprise is that they are ethical too. Designed in Ireland, produced in a small, family-run atelier in Venice and made from vegan leather, they represent conscious consumption' at its best.
Burton began in 2009 by creating bags by hand out of reclaimed fabric from old leather jackets. Long before last year's Rana Plaza disaster which resulted in the deaths of 1,129 garment ...
