Artificial leather

An artificial leather comprising:

• a fiber entangled body which contains, as a constituent, a nonwoven fabric that is configured from ultrafine fibers that are formed from a thermoplastic resin, while having an average single fiber diameter of from 1 μm to 10 μm;
• and
• an elastomer,
• wherein at least one surface of the artificial leather is a design surface that has at least a piloerection part and a fused part;
• if a content of the thermoplastic resin in the piloerection part is taken as 100 parts by mass, a content of the thermoplastic resin in a fused material in the fused part is from 99 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass;
• a difference between a thickness of the piloerection part and a thickness of the fused part is from 0.05 mm to 0.19 mm;
• and formulae (1) to (3) described below are satisfied,
• ΔE*ab≥5 (1)
• 0≤ΔH*ab≤1 (2)
• 2D≤φ≤150 (3)
• here, ΔE*ab is a CIELAB1976L*a*b* color difference between the piloerection part and the fused part, ΔH*ab is a CIELAB1976 hue difference between the piloerection part and the fused part, D is the average single fiber diameter (μm) of the ultrafine fibers, and φ is a size (μm) of the fused material.