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About Us History – From Our Founder It was in 2001 when I entered the workforce
as a Management Assistant for the City of Los Angeles. The position demanded
that I wear professional work attire including at times, a suit. With
professional attire came the need for shoes, belts, wallets and briefcases that
fit the part. Over the years I purchased several items from vegan stores across
the US. During those years, vegan leather items were made from PU or worse, PVC.
While finding the right look was a challenge, finding the quality was
impossible. My belts and shoes would eventually crack and peel no matter how
much or how little I paid for them. In 2005, I started business school at USC.
For one of my projects during an entrepreneurship course, I studied the
feasibility of creating a vegan line of shoes and accessories. When I graduated
business school, it was 2008 and with the economy in shambles, I decided that it
would be safest to go back to the City of Los Angeles where I continued to work.
Still, the idea of creating Doshi rested in the back of my mind. Years later,
wanting to make my life more meaningful, I acted on the idea and started work to
launch the brand and in 2017, Doshi was launched after years of learning about
materials, hardware, manufacturing, prototyping, importing, warehousing, and
ecommerce. It was a long road but ultimately one that lead to the creation of a
brand that provides value. We seek to provide our customers fashionable products
that combine durable, vegan, and eco-friendly materials with quality
workmanship. In 2024, we started an initiative that we call becoming the Luxury
UnBrand. In our desire to provide customers with value and to spread the
adoption of vegan and sustainable products, we will attempt to offer our lowest
prices when a product is first launched. Imagine having the great fashion imbued
with quality at an affordable price. I believe that this is the best path for us
to have an opportunity to bring innovative materials to everyday people. -Paras
What We Do Doshi was founded to provide smart, fashionable, and quality vegan
bags and accessories to people who have ethical, religious or environmental
beliefs that lead them to seek vegan products. Our goal is to meet the needs of
smart, socially and environmentally conscious professionals, jet-setters and
fashionistas. Our product offerings include non-leather (vegan leather)
handbags, briefcases, backpacks, belts, and wallets. We are based in southern
California but we’d like to think that we’re not just part of just one city,
state, or even country. We want to be a part of lives in every place that people
share our ideals for a better world. We believe that’s everywhere. What Makes Us
Different? Intention. Unlike an accidentally vegan product that was made as
cheaper alternative to a leather product, Doshi seeks to set the standard in
luxury vegan fashion. Setting the standard includes a heavy focus on design,
materials, hardware, and craftsmanship. Our founder, Paras, oversees the design
of products, picks out the materials, and directly works with factories to make
intentionally vegan goods for vegan and vegan friendly customers. Intentionally
Vegan Design: We study trends, consult designers, and keep an awareness of the
marketplace to make sure that our products keep you up to date. Intentionally
Vegan Materials: When Paras realized that ordinary PU was an inferior material,
he set out to find the best vegan materials. Most companies talk about using
“high quality PU” for their vegan leather. The phrase doesn’t mean too much.
Paras spent years researching where the best vegan materials come from. Doshi
does not use ordinary PU in any of its products. Intentionally Vegan
Manufacturing: Vegan products don’t stop at materials. Our partner factories
know that our products need to be vegan from top to bottom. All glues, thread,
structural materials, interlining, and hardware are 100% vegan. No animal
products are used in our goods whatsoever. Intentionally Connected: We support
several vegan organizations from those pushing forward animals rights to farm
sanctuaries taking care of our non human friends. Our Founder: Paras Doshi Paras
grew up in sunny southern California and worked for the City of Los Angeles for
17 years before leaving to pursue his mission to provide quality, fashionable,
vegan bags and accessories to the world. Paras has donated and raised money for
pro animal non-profits and animal sanctuaries over the years. He grew up
vegetarian and became vegan in 2012. Paras first confronted the issue of finding
vegan accessories in 2001 when he started his first job. The difficulty with
finding classy, fashionable, and durable vegan accessories persisted over the
years no matter how many brands he tried. Eventually Paras decided to venture
out and start Doshi to address this need. Doshi launched in 2017 and Paras has
been working on delivering this idea of classy, fashionable, and quality
non-leather goods ever since. Paras holds a B.S. Finance degree from California
Polytechnic University, Pomona and an MBA from the University of Southern
California. An audio interview with Paras, December 2020:
https://plantbasedprofitsshow.com/paras-doshi/ An audio interview with Paras,
September 2022: Hope For The Animals Podcast by Hope Bohanec An interview with
Paras, September 2023: CHARM – Celebrating Heroes in the Animal Rights Movement
In case you’re wondering, Markus, the cute little Boston Terrier belongs to
Byron, a friend who was living up in Vancouver. Byron graciously allowed Paras
to stay with him while Doshi was attending the Vegan Expo in 2019. Markus and
Paras became buddies while Paras was up there. Markus might be the happiest dog
around. Tejas Doshi Tejas is a successful businessman with his own business and
is Paras’ younger brother. He’s the guy helping pack our orders and get them out
on time, he’s the guy in the Doshi polos attending vegfests around the country,
and he’s the guy helping Paras with the warehouse, inventory, and sales. . Ilona
Goossens Ilona joined us in 2020 and handles backend communications, PR outreach
efforts, newsletter, merchandising, graphics and frankly, as much as we can
throw at her. Ilona has moved up to being Paras’ right hand person. . Our
Products: We design our products to be practical and useful, we choose materials
and construction methods that are meant to hold up to frequent use, we pay our
suppliers for the more difficult work we demand, and we stand behind our goods.
Eco-friendliness and sustainability are a function of how long a product lasts
and what materials it’s made from. We will continue to push on every frontier
until we make beautiful products that are beautiful, last long, and then
disappear back into the earth when we are done using them. We have to do all of
this while providing our customers value. To improve the world, our products
need to be accessible to everyone; not just a select few. Prototypes get a
workout before going to production. They’re scratched, dropped, tugged on, and
pulled. We test pockets, zippers, slots and handles. We often have multiple
rounds of revisions which cause our suppliers to have fits but we like finding
problems… so you don’t. Factories: We visit the factories where we manufacture
goods. We look for clean factories where we ask terrible amounts of questions to
management to understand product construction, environmental practices and
workers’ well being. Factories in the places we manufacture often have a variety
of certifications to show social compliance. One of the most common is the
Business and Social Compliance Initiative
(http://www.saasaccreditation.org/bsci) certification. We are pushing to have
each factory BSCI audited. BSCI is not a certification or accreditation. It is a
methodology that allows for factories to be social compliance audited which in
turn helps to improve working conditions for companies within the supply chain.
Doshi and the Environment: When we set about to make a product, we consider the
materials being used, how the product is being made and look to find ways that
we can make the product last. Synthetic materials have made huge strides in
minimizing the resources used to create them. We do our best to find factories
that purchase recycled base material and minimize the use of chemicals and
solvents when making their materials. Why not leather? Isn’t it just a by
product? Studies show that the source of a great deal of the world’s pollution
comes from livestock. It’s not the animals’ fault. Humans just breed too many of
them. The lifecycle of a cow involves great deals of resource consumption and
waste production. From our reading, studies and back of the envelope
calculations, we believe that the carbon footprint needed to produce a bag or
backpack from synthetic materials is vastly smaller than what is needed to
produce the same bag using an equivalent amount of leather. Further, much of the
leather found in mass produced goods is treated with petroleum based compounds
at every step, from tanning to it’s final finish. Ok, that’s our part. Here’s
your part: We hope that when you buy our products, you’ll use them often so that
what we take from the environment is used to its fullest. When you’re done with
our products, please donate them so that others may put them to good use. Vegan
/ Green Washing: We don’t use cork, Cactus Leather (Desserto), Apple Leather or
other such materials because we’re against vegan washing and green washing. With
cork, only a very thin layer at the top of the material is cork! The rest is
cotton, polyester or some other backing. The same is the case for apple leather
and cactus leather. Over 90% an arguably 95%+ of the material is not cork or
cactus or apple. In this case, should you call these materials cork, cactus, or
apple when there’s only a sprinkling of it in the mix? We say no. It’s
misleading and false advertising. We appreciate materials like Pinatex since the
material is pineapple leaf fibers front to back. We appreciate kraft paper since
it is made from cellulose of sustainably harvested trees. Kraft paper is paper
from front to back! Neither of these materials uses a backing. Being the
Underdog: I spent 16 years working for the City of Los Angeles and did really
neat things there. I loved what I did until around 2012 when I was promised a
promotion and then black listed when I pushed for it. I realized the world
wasn’t always fair. I approached my management, union and even wrote a letter to
the Mayor to no avail. You don’t really know it until you enter a new space what
it looks like. We’re not backed by investors, we’re not connected to anyone in
the media, and we have no connections to larger retailers. Being seen on social
media is purely about having money to advertise. While we were in several small
shops before the pandemic, unfortunately, none of them survived. There are still
some vegan retailers left but a few of them will not pick up our line. We’re not
sure why but we think it has to do with our line being made in China. We’re
still here because we’ve been to vegan festivals, we’ve been to animal rights
conferences, and we’ve worked on our products. Over the years, our belts have
been through multiple transformations to make them better. We expect to keep
pushing forward. Why Choose Doshi Vegan Belts? Belts are a standard in modern
dress. You’re not considered office-ready without one, and your jeans may just
fall if you forgo them in the work yard. That’s why we’re happy to offer
non-leather designer belts for our environmentally-aware friends. But why choose
Doshi over any other men’s non-leather belts? Well… We’re intentionally animal
friendly. No animal products are used in any of our pieces, from start to
finish, and we’re dedicated to bringing a quality product to you. We don’t want
you to purchase a product from us just because it’s vegan. We want you to own
our products because they’re the best. We’re intentionally environmentally
conscious and sustainable and we’re working on becoming better. Our kraft paper
belt was our first foray into trying to make the most sustainable belt in the
world. It’s a bit stiff and so we’re going to try a better way to make it. We
try to make our products durable so that we maximize the utility of any
resources used. Our belts are designed to be simple, sleek, and sophisticated.
You get the big-brand design standards without the big-brand cost, animal
cruelty, or environmental impact. We choose and use only the best materials for
our products. Our founder dedicates his time to hand-selecting everything that
goes into these belts. That means high-quality vegan leather and leather
alternatives sourced from around the world, made to look good and last a
lifetime. Basic buckles are made of zinc allloy. We now use higher quality
buckles made of stainless steel and brass. The craftsmanship we put into every
Doshi product, including our vegan leather belts, is second to none. Every belt
is handmade by a skilled artisan – they’re truly one-of-a-kind pieces. All of
our products are rigorously tested for quality. We’re sliding, pulling,
tightening, and rapid-fire unfastening to find all the usual (and unusual)
problems and fix them before the vegan belt is ever in your hand. These
leather-free belts are vegetarian, vegan, and
unspecified-concerned-citizen-of-the-world friendly.