Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez’s Outfit for Raid 2, Jasprit Bumrah-Backed Uppercase, Masaba Gupta’s Lovechild and Dolly Jain Among PETA India’s 2025 Vegan Fashion Awards Winners
From gorgeous sarees made from vegan silk to handbags crafted from cactus leather, the winners of PETA India’s 2025 Vegan Fashion Awards show that designers and brands are responding to the public’s growing demand for fashion that is kind to animals and the planet.
Top honours this year go to CSIR-NIIST (National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology) with the award for Vegan Fashion Changemaker of the Year for developing technology to manufacture vegan leather made from pineapple leaves, banana stems, rice straws, and other plants and agricultural waste.
The winner for Best Vegan Fashion Moment of 2025 goes to July issue by Jyotsna Bisht for styling actress Jacqueline Fernandez in animal-friendly faux fur for the song ‘Money Money’ in the blockbuster hit film Raid 2.
And this year’s Best Vegan Style Icon award goes to actor and filmmaker Riteish Deshmukh – PETA India’s ‘Most Beautiful Vegetarian Celebrity’ of 2024 – for helping to bring vegan living mainstream through his fashion choices, lifestyle, and plant-based meat company Imagine Meats.
Best Vegan Travel Gear: Ace cricketer Jasprit Bumrah-backed Uppercase
Best Vegan Makeup: Bold and inclusive beauty brand LoveChild Masaba by Masaba Gupta
Best Vegan Handbags: Allen Solly’s luxurious designs including those made from apple and cactus leather
Best Vegan Fashion Digital Content Creator: Dolly Jain for her ‘vegan saree saga’ content
Best Vegan Leather Innovation: Eori Leather’s plastic- and animal-free leather made from eucalyptus fibers
Best Vegan Women’s Footwear: Disobedience’s sustainable and contemporary footwear
Best Vegan Kids Fashion: Zip Zap Zoop
Best Vegan Sarees: Hand An Yarns
Best Vegan Personal Care: Plix
Best Vegan Sneakers: Greensole
Best Vegan Men’s Footwear: Vegan Basics
PETA entities have released numerous videos revealing that workers hit, kick, and mutilate sheep for their wool during shearing; leave goats with bloody, gaping wounds at mohair and cashmere operations; slit the throats of cows and buffaloes for leather; ram metal rods down conscious crocodiles’ spines in the reptile-skins industry; suffocate, electrocute, and bludgeon animals to death on fur farms; and boil silkworms alive to produce silk. PETA India’s investigation into Mumbai’s Deonar slaughterhouse found appalling cruelty to animals killed for leather. Animal-based leather also wreaks havoc on the environment due in part to the toxic chemicals and pollutants used to make it.
