Diane von Furstenberg bans mohair from future collections

The luxury fashion designer, Diane von Furstenberg, is the latest name in fashion to ban mohair from future collections, according to a statement by animal rights organization PETA. More than 240 apparel companies -- including H&M, Gap, Inditex and Asos -- have pledged to stop using the material since May, when PETA published video footage depicting extreme cases of animal cruelty at goat farms in South Africa, where more than 50 percent of the world’s mohair comes from.