Most major luxury brands — including Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel, Burberry and Prada — buy their cashmere from Mongolian farms that effectively torture the goats that produce the pricey fabric, ...
The history of cashmere rests, fairy-tale like, on a wholly unlikely alliance: that of an empress and a goat. The goat, perhaps, is self-explanatory. Cashmere goats – also known as capra hircus – are ...