One fortunate Barbie fan will win a pair of “Lucky” vegan leather boots designed by French brand Good Guys Don’t Wear Leather, as worn by Ryan Gosling’s Ken, in a special giveaway launched by PETA.
Gosling wears the fashionable boots in scenes after Ken and Barbie arrive in the real world and attempt to blend in by changing into Western outfits. The boots being offered by PETA are an identical pair to those seen in the movie. (Sizes and colours are subject to availability.)
“Barbie may be everything, but he is more than ‘just’ Ken in these gorgeously detailed vegan leather boots that protect vulnerable cows and the planet,” says PETA Vice President of Corporate Projects Yvonne Taylor. “PETA looks forward to seeing a die-hard Barbie fan score these now-iconic boots that represent the future of fashion.”
Cows used for leather typically endure castration, branding, and tail docking – all without painkillers – before they’re violently killed. Leather production also destroys the planet: animal agriculture, which includes the leather industry, is responsible for nearly one-fifth of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, and turning skin into leather requires significant energy and dangerous chemicals, including formaldehyde, coal-tar derivatives, and cyanide-based oils, dyes, and finishes. Sustainable vegan leather can be made from the prickly pear cactus, mushrooms, apples, pineapples, and other innovative materials.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram.
