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At that price point, you can get much better quality from Coach, Furla or Coccinelle.","subreddit":"handbags"},{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/handbags/comments/1qccdhu/ganni_bou_bag/nzhp34p/","type":"comment","title":"Recycled leather is not eco-friendly and won't wear like leather","author":"digitalecho125","ref_id":"r_e_4","thread":{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/handbags/comments/1qccdhu/ganni_bou_bag/","title":"ganni bou bag","subreddit":"handbags"},"excerpt":"Recycled leather isn’t really eco friendly or sustainable like some companies are advertising it as. Its leather scraps ground up and bonded with PU, with a PU top layer/embossed grain. It won’t wear as quickly/badly as PU - but won’t wear like leather. 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year, including a retailer that made up 10% of annual sales, to confine the brand to prestige stockists like Net-a-Porter, Browns, and Selfridges — this deliberate exclusivity shields the Mini Bou Bag from markdown-heavy mass retail, preserving the price integrity that would be eroded if it appeared in the wrong context.","2023_virgin_leather_phaseout":"Starting in 2023, Ganni eliminated virgin leather from its entire range, re-engineering accessories like the Mini Bou Bag around recycled leather and recycled cotton linings to meet public responsibility targets — so the bag’s bonded leather is a conscious, brand-wide material reform, not a corner-cutting substitution, making the $400 outlay a tangible support of Ganni’s environmental roadmap.","next_gen_luxury_bou_backstory":"The Mini Bou Bag is named after creative director Ditte Reffstrup’s daughter and framed by Ganni as a deliberate “next-gen luxury” proposition that pairs recycled materials with an approachable price and 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editorial hype, which helps justify trading up from a generic high-street bag.","price_quality_brand_equity_equilibrium":"Ganni’s CEO explicitly anchors the brand’s pricing in a “trifecta” of price, quality, and brand equity rather than material cost alone — a philosophy that places the Mini Bou Bag’s sub-$500 CAD price in the same deliberate bracket as the brand’s £150-300 dresses, where paying less than $1,000 for a fashion-forward label is part of the advanced contemporary value proposition."},"entry_quotes":{"selective_account_purge":[{"url":"https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/a23103090/ganni-founders-interview-ditte-nicolaj-reffstrup/","quote":"the company chose to drop 100 accounts this year, including one online retailer that made up 10 per cent of the company’s total sales."}],"2023_virgin_leather_phaseout":[{"url":"https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/what-to-wear/a60124411/ganni-bou-bag/","quote":"As we phased out virgin leather last year, we aimed to create a bag using 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Precisely with this trifecta you’re getting the most bang for your buck."}]},"entry_sources":{"selective_account_purge":["https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/a23103090/ganni-founders-interview-ditte-nicolaj-reffstrup/"],"2023_virgin_leather_phaseout":["https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/what-to-wear/a60124411/ganni-bou-bag/"],"next_gen_luxury_bou_backstory":["https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/what-to-wear/a60124411/ganni-bou-bag/"],"rejection_of_minimalist_scandi":["https://www.drapersonline.com/product-and-trends/brand-profile-why-ganni-is-the-super-cool-scandi-dream","https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/aug/31/the-rise-of-ganni-the-danish-fashion-label-that-appeals-to-everyone-and-their-mum"],"800_buy_increase_at_net_a_porter":["https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/a23103090/ganni-founders-interview-ditte-nicolaj-reffstrup/"],"price_quality_brand_equity_equilibrium":["https://www.drapersonline.com/product-and-trends/brand-profile-why-ganni-is-the-super-cool-scandi-dream"]}},"sustainability_credentials":{"title":"Ganni's sustainability story behind this bag","entries":{"virgin_leather_phase_out_commitment":"The GANNI Bou Bag collection was launched explicitly as a vehicle for the brand's commitment to eliminate virgin animal leather from all products by the end of 2023, making this bag a direct result of that pledge rather than a one-off eco SKU.","recycled_leather_as_preferred_material":"The bag's recycled leather construction — predominantly recycled polyester blended with polyurethane — falls into GANNI's 'Preferred' material category under its Fabric Score, a classification reserved for materials that challenge conventional practices like organic and recycled inputs."},"entry_quotes":{"virgin_leather_phase_out_commitment":[{"url":"https://www.ganni.com/us/bou-bag/","quote":"the new GANNI Bou Bag holds true to our commitment to phase out virgin leather from all products by the end of 2023."},{"url":"https://www.instagram.com/p/CrKq4CsIvyp/","quote":"Our new GANNI Bou Bag will be exclusively available in the two luxury leather alternatives Recycled Leather and Ohoskin, manifesting our commitment to phasing out virgin animal leather by 2023."}],"recycled_leather_as_preferred_material":[{"url":"https://www.ganni.com/en/responsibility/2024-report-materials-and-innovation.html","quote":"Preferred Materials are those that challenge conventional practices, think organic and recycled materials."},{"url":"https://www.instagram.com/p/CrKq4CsIvyp/","quote":"Our new GANNI Bou Bag will be exclusively available in the two luxury leather alternatives Recycled Leather and Ohoskin, manifesting our commitment to phasing out virgin animal leather by 2023."}]},"entry_sources":{"virgin_leather_phase_out_commitment":["https://www.ganni.com/us/bou-bag/","https://www.instagram.com/p/CrKq4CsIvyp/"],"recycled_leather_as_preferred_material":["https://www.ganni.com/en/responsibility/2024-report-materials-and-innovation.html","https://www.instagram.com/p/CrKq4CsIvyp/"]}}}},"handle":"bou-mini-pink-braided-handle-bag-19638-1112624","storefront_path":"/en/women-accessories/bags/brand-name-bags/bou-mini-pink-braided-handle-bag--19638-1112624","storefront_url":"https://ai.simons.ca/en/women-accessories/bags/brand-name-bags/bou-mini-pink-braided-handle-bag--19638-1112624"}}