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When Bea Recoder heads to Paris trade show Tranoï this week, she must navigate a difficult balancing act.
The designer, whose accessories brand Studio Reco works with surplus leather from high-grade tanneries, needs to grow her wholesale business. But doing so means engaging with a fashion system she is trying to subvert; Recoder’s choice to use excess leather reflects her ambition to address, rather than contribute to, the waste created by…
