VOA常速英语:Your Next Pair of Shoes Could Be Made From a Fruit

A Spanish entrepreneur spent over eight years developing a new textile she calls Pinatex.Pinatex is a new textile material made from pineapple leaf fibers, which is the waste of the pineapple harvest.Carmen Hijosa, who founded the company Ananas Anam to market Pinatex
一位西班牙企业家花了超过八年时间研发了一种名为Pinatex的新型纺织品。Pinatex是一种由菠萝叶纤维制成的新型纺织材料，收获了菠萝叶而不使用是一种浪费。Carmen Hijosa创立了Ananas Anam公司，销售Pinatex制品，

works with pineapple farmers in the Philippines who harvest and strip the fibers from the leaves.Because their characteristics and they’re very fine and strong and flexible.Since launching commercially in the mid 2015, Pinatecx has been used by about 500 manufacturers including a recent collaboration with fashion house Hugo Boss on a pair of vegan sneakers.Smaller fashion companies to have been inspired by its unique look and feel.
她与菲律宾种植菠萝的果民合作，收获菠萝叶并从树叶上剥离纤维。因为菠萝叶质地细密、韧性强劲、灵活多变。自2015年中推出商用产品以来，Pinatecx已经为500多家制造商使用，包括最近Pinatex与时尚品牌雨果·波士Hugo Boss合作推出了一双纯素运动鞋。小一些的时装公司也受到其独特外观和质地的启发。

People come in, they’ll see it, they’re attracted to it.At first most of the time, they think it’s leather, and then they feel in it doesn’t feel leather. They’re there…Timothy Turner-Sutton, creative director for fashion brand Altiir whose entire collection of biker style jackets are made from Pinatex says, it’s got a unique texture.This is my neo classic biker jacket, it’s made by Altiir out of Pinatex.I’ve worn this for about a year, and it’s just it ages to your body really gracefully and molds molds to your body when it gets wet,it dries like leather, and it behaves like leather in every way except it’s completely sustainable.In addition to clothing, the company is entering new markets too, including interior furnishing and car upholstery.
人们进来，会看到这个，他们会被它吸引。大多数时候，他们第一眼看到会认为这是皮革，接着会觉得摸着不像皮革，他们在那里…时装品牌Altiir的创意总监Timothy Turner-Sutton，其整个系列的骑行风格夹克都是用Pinatex制造的，Pinatex质感独特。这是我的新经典机车夹克，它是Altiir用Pinatex制造的。我已经穿了大约一年了，穿上它会非常优雅，在它变湿的时候非常显身材，它像皮革一样干燥，各方面都和皮革相似，除了一点，就是它还是可持续的。除了服装，该公司正在进军新的市场，包括室内装饰和汽车内饰。

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