Why Does Fast Fashion Fall Apart So Quickly?
Growing up in Biga, Turkey, on the soil where the ancient Trojan War was once fought, Volkan Yilmazwas surrounded by leather. His father, Irfan, ran a small tannery business, where young Volkan would trail behind him, taking notes on all the recipes and processes, nostrils filled with the pungent smell of corrosive chemicals and decaying flesh. By the age of 11, he had already learned how to tan his first sheep skin. Now, 25 years later, under the moniker Tanner Leatherstein, Yilmaz is parlaying his insight into leather into an addictive TikTok presence involving entertaining vivid sections of designer leather…