Montado Black-Edition | eco and vegan cork-streetwear

With your help we want to push sustainable and vegan fashion forward by producing the Montado Black Edition.
It’s the worldwide first (fashion) collection that principally consists of black-colored cork.
With cork instead of leather there is no animal suffering, no toxic chemicals, and no exploitative trade structures.

Cork is the leather of the 21st century.

Together we can show the world that a sustainable clothing industry is no utopian dream anymore. Thanks to your support we avoid the (greedy) loan sharks. That helps us to use every Cent very effectively and thus make the product more affordable.

Our Aim:
Our aim is to establish cork on the clothes market not only as an alternative for leather but also as a sustainable alternative for already existing toxic imitations.
This helps not only animals and plants but also humans. Because our production based on cork offers a vision for the Portuguese farmers in the Montado region to sustain their endangered cork biotope.
In turn, the cork woods offer hundreds of animal and plant species space to live. For example the Iberian lynx, there are only 100 more of his kind.
Furthermore, we want to avoid the dogmas of the clothing industry and circumvent mechanisms, that would make the market launch of our products unnecessarily expensive, slow and most of all unfair.
Beside all these positive effects for plants, animals and the environment, in the end you will have beautiful products of high quality. Because of its exceptional qualities cork is just perfect for clothes and Accessoires.

Facts that make cork a perfect fabric:

• extremely durable
• hardwearing
• heat-insulating
• splash-proof
• lightness

Our target group:
To the target group of the Montado Black Edition belongs everyone who likes progressive designs and cares about fair working conditions, toxic free materials and a sustainable production chain. We want to get through to everybody, who declares oneself against animal suffering and takes a stand for preserving nature.
If you are willing to take one step into a sustainable future, you belong to our target group.

You and me, together as a crowd!

It’s time to question and to stop the current greed for consumption. We have to concentrate on fair and sustainable production in order to leave behind a world worth living. 
The scope of our consumption contribute to the environmental destruction and happens at the expense of people who themselves have only little and who are not able to change current structures. The production of leather and synthetic fibres under inhumane working conditions und with the use of toxic coloring and preservatives bear part of the blame.

With the Montado Black Edition we want to show that an alternative production is not only necessary but possible. And you can be part of this production! 
We don’t only produce sustainable and stylish products we also lay the foundation of sustaining the cork forest. Through our cooperation with the Portuguese farmers we can create a basis for growth of the sustainable cork biotope and cork production. Because an ecological and organic economy consisting of peasants and regional production with German textile knowhow can grow.

Cork is not only a renewable resource with special look, but also of high value for the environment. Because the bark of the Portuguese cork oak protects the soil against erosion and increases the absorption of rainwater. Furthermore, it absorbs CO2, which becomes even more when the cork bark is being peeled off every nine years. So cork makes a contribution towards environmental and climate protection but it also helps us to realize this ecological and vegan collection without damaging the environment. For our products nobody has to suffer; neither animals, humans nor nature. That makes our Montado Black Edition a worldwide unique production chain. According to the motto: no torture, no murder, no toxin. BLEED- nobody has to bleed for our products.

A large share oft he money goes directly into the production of our Montado Black Edition and support the work of the cork peasants in Portugal directly. The money that is left after covering the expenses and taxes, will be donated completely to the animal rights organization PETA, which we are working with for a long time now. (If you are keen on the financial details click here)