Joshua Katcher

Joshua Katcher is a vegan and sustainable fashion expert, entrepreneur, author and educator who has taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college, and has lectured internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainable and ethical fashion. He is on the Advisory Board for The New Fashion Initiative and in 2019 he published Fashion Animals, the first book dedicated to understanding how and why animals are exploited in the fashion industry. He also has over a decade of media production experience at top agencies like BBDO

Katcher was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential Vegans of 2019 by Veg News Magazine . He launched the first vegan, ethically-made menswear fashion brand, Brave GentleMan in 2010 after launching the first men’s vegan lifestyle website The Discerning Brute in 2008. PAPER MAG said BGM has “just about everything a mindful fashionisto could want”, while Sportswear International said that BGM is, “vegan smart and cool menswear”. Brave GentleMan has graced the cover of British GQ ‘s November 2016 Issue on Benedict Cumberbatch. Forbes has featured BGM in their gift guides, while COMPLEX called BGM one of the “coolest things” they’ve seen. Katcher was awarded ” Menswear Brand of the Year, 2016 ” and ” Most Influential Designer of 2015 ” by PETA. He is a contributor to CFDA News, has appeared on the cover of Vegan Good Life Magazine, and has been interviewed on major networks, such as PBS News Hour and Al Jazeera America as a fashion expert.

In 2018, Katcher cofounded RIND, a French-style, soft-ripened, plant-based camembert and bleu cheese company.