PETA India’s 2025 Vegan Fashion Awards Winners
PETA India celebrates designers and brands advancing cruelty-free fashion that benefits animals and the planet with their innovative vegan clothing and accessories.
Top Honours
The CSIR-NIIST (National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology) earned the Vegan Fashion Changemaker of the Year award for creating vegan leather technology using pineapple leaves, banana stems, rice straws, and other plant-based agricultural waste.
Best Vegan Fashion Moment of 2025
The July issue styled by Jyotsna Bisht took this award for dressing actress Jacqueline Fernandez in animal-friendly faux fur in the song "Money Money" from the blockbuster film Raid 2.
Best Vegan Style Icon
Actor and filmmaker Riteish Deshmukh received the award, recognized as PETA India’s “Most Beautiful Vegetarian Celebrity” of 2024, for promoting veganism through his fashion, lifestyle, and plant-based meat brand Imagine Meats.
"Designers and brands are responding to the public’s growing demand for fashion that is kind to animals and the planet."
"PETA India’s ‘Most Beautiful Vegetarian Celebrity’ of 2024 – Riteish Deshmukh – brings vegan living mainstream through fashion choices, lifestyle, and his plant-based meat company Imagine Meats."
Other winners include innovative creators of vegan silk sarees and handbags made from cactus leather, highlighting the expanding cruelty-free fashion movement in India.
Author’s summary: PETA India’s 2025 Vegan Fashion Awards honor pioneers transforming fashion with cruelty-free materials and influential advocates spreading vegan lifestyles through design and innovation.