Stingray leather is making a rocketed push to fashion industry in stunning ways as of late. With top notch machinery and innovative ways of tanning, the uses are diverse like sanding it down to a sleek finishing.

A large number of venerable luxury brands including Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta and Yves Saint Laurent are including stingray leather in manufacturing their products.

Stingray, also known as shagreen or chagrin, actually has long been employed in the fashion world. However, it did not gain great prevalence at the beginning, and it was mainly used to design common products rather than being pushed into the luxuries limelight.

Part of the reason was that stingray skin was extremely hard to deal with due to its hardness, which adds difficulty while bending and manipulating to use for the complex requirements of design in current accessories market. Whereas, some manufacturers have taken bold move to remake stingray skin, rendering it softer and use it within complicated designs. While other manufacturers would prefer print stingray engraved in traditional leather, saving all the trifles and risk of remaking it since dealing with stingray is still a less known complicated progress.

Hence, the fashion industry has witnessed the launching of an increasing amount of stingray leather accessories.

Different from faux stingray products, bona fide stingray leather goods are heavily sought after and they are sold out quickly. Once niche brands dedicated to deal with stingray introduce them into the market, big name brands would unveil their experiments with the stingray leather soon.

Doomed as a fashion trend to be watched in the year to come, those fashion aficionados could expect more stingray leather goods as lots of manufacturers are unremittingly gaining more expertise about it.