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Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood lobby to ban fur in the UK

British fashion designers Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, and Erdem Moralioglu have lobbied to ban natural fur and fiber in the UK. In response, the Natural Fibers Alliance (NFA) stated that banning fur would harm the environment and would set the UK back in its efforts to improve environmental sustainability. According to the NFA, an...

Business

Denmark's fur industry to take a hit over culling of mink population

It’s a rough day for furriers in Denmark. Parts of Denmark are now under tougher lockdown measures because health authorities have discovered a mutated version of the coronavirus in minks and people in the north of Denmark. The government is now culling all minks to prevent the further spread of this new strain of coronavirus as health...

Business

Russia's economic crisis hurting Italian fur industry

New York - Russia's economic woes are being felt by the fur industry in Italy. In 2015, sales of Italian fox furs and minks took a plunge. The unusually warm weather in the Northern parts of the United States this winter did very little for their profits as well. The Russian ruble's decline and rising oil prices certainly weren't help fur sales...

Fashion

New PETA research shows 80 percent of London Fashion Week designers eschewing fur

Although images from last season's London Fashion Week runways seemed awashed with fur, according to the latest research from animal rights' organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, the vast majority of designers showing eschewed real fur for their Autumn-Winter 2015 collections. According to the International Fur Trade...