Cassandra Kane
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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Yeah, and you absolutely need to be somebody that can is not just executing in the production line, but can interpret a sketch, interpret what a designer wants, kind of and figure out the what the order of operations needs to be.
So it definitely is a merging of design and product development, pattern making, kind of all the things I was doing in my career in lots of different capacities.
And I really enjoyed it.
But I think in my heart I'm an entrepreneur and I don't like a clock in and clock out.
It was at that
factory job that I saw the amount of weather we were throwing away during production runs.
I mean
It was as high as sixty percent of the leather that we were using was getting thrown in the track away.
And I went to my boss, I remember, I'll never forget this, and I said, Did somebody really mess up here, like somebody in the design office of this brand, and just choose the wrong material for the product and everybody has to eat it or they're gonna get fired?
And he said to me, No, I mean it's a little bit worse than we normally see, but normally it's about 50%.
Um that we throw away.
And that was really my light bulb moment.
I this was back in 2018, 2018, 2019.
No, I immediately thought here's an opportunity for me.
I don't know.
At first I was really just shook that there wasn't a wider conversation happening, especially at the luxury level, about leather waste.
There's so much talk about fabric waste and especially about sustainability in fast fashion.
But this was before COVID.
I think the needles shifted a lot since COVID.
But in the luxury space pre-COVID, it was kind of assumed that if it was a
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