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Affluent consumers no longer consider fur and exotic leathers 'luxury'

A fur coat or a crocodile leather bag has long been considered the 'ultimate luxury'. New research from Collective Fashion Justice (CFJ) suggests this is no longer the case. The report, ‘Wildlife Exploitation is Not Luxurious’, reveals that a striking 95 percent of high-earners surveyed in London, Paris and New York believe the use of wild...

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Investigation: exotic animal skin industry protected by lobbying

Research by the animal rights organisation Collective Fashion Justice (CFJ) reveals that lobbying has distorted the perception of the exotic animal skin industry. Executives from two departments of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an NGO founded in France in 1948, held commercial interests in continuing the harvesting...

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Fashion industry responsible for 8.3 million tonnes of methane every year

Collective Fashion Justice (CFJ), the charity dedicated to a total ethics fashion system that protects people, animals, and the planet, has released the first-ever calculation of the fashion industry’s methane footprint and claims the global fashion industry is responsible for emitting an estimated 8.3 million tonnes of methane every year. The...

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Collective Fashion Justice: ‘Less than 4 percent of BFC brands have climate targets’

A new report from Collective Fashion Justice has found that just seven of the 206 member brands associated with the British Fashion Council (BFC) have a published climate target, making up just 3.39 percent of the organisation's total membership. Only five (2.4 percent), meanwhile, have demonstrated science-based targets that align with the...