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BIG ON STYLE, LOW ON WASTE ADVENE’S CHIC, POPULAR HANDBAGS ARE CREATED WITHIN THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ETHICAL PRODUCTION
hen fashion veterans and longtime friends Yijia Wang and Zi Xuan W created Advene in 2019, they set out
The Age bag, shown at left, is a versatile piece meant for day or night. The Edge, shown at right, is more unisex.
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to reinvent sustainable luxury in the accessories sector. Customers at the time had to choose between sustainability, style, and price. “That’s when we thought we should do something,” Wang says. With Advene, Wang and Xuan, who are based in New York, created a solution: luxury accessories that are thoughtfully constructed, sustainably made, and fairly priced. Advene’s first product, the Age bag, is entirely sourced from food byproducts and is 100% traceable. Leathers are produced in a tannery certified by the Leather Working Group. This means that, from rawhide to finished leather, every step of the process is held to the highest standards of environmental impact and ethical production. There are only 13 tanneries in the world certified as such. ust think about it,” Wang says. “Only 10% of leather made in the U.S. is traceable. We’re not producing new leathers; it’s all recycled leather.” Additionally, the Age lacks plastic filling, which is commonly used to structure the silhouette of bags. Instead, the design ensures it maintains its
