FUR-FREE FASHION INDUSTRY

“London has become the first of the main fashion weeks to ditch animal fur in its shows after the British Fashion Council… said none of the designers participating on the official schedule would be using it.”

- Scarlett Conlon, The Guardian, Sep. 7, 2018

MAJOR FUR-FREE BRANDS

Kate Spade - 1993 (since inception)
Calvin Klein - 1994
Bottega Veneta - 2001
Stella McCartney - 2001 (since inception)
Vivienne Westwood - 2007
Tommy Hilfiger - 2007
Ralph Lauren - 2007
Victoria Beckham - 2008 (since inception)
Lacoste - 2014
Armani - 2016
Hugo Boss - 2016
Maggie Marilyn - 2016 (since inception)
Gucci - 2017
Michael Kors - 2017
Furla - 2018
Versace - 2018
Donna Karan New York - 2018
Maison Margiela (John Galliano) - 2018
Burberry - 2018
Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) - 2018
Coach - 2018
Gaultier - 2018
3.1 Phillip Lim - 2019


OFFICIAL FASHION WEEKS W/
FUR BANS

““[We’re] taking an active stand against cruelty to animals and the damaging environmental impacts...””
— Evelyn Mora, founder of Helsinki Fashion Week

Helsinki Fashion Week
leather & fur ban, Aug 2018

London Fashion Week
fur ban, Sept 2018

Amsterdam Fashion Week
fur ban, March 2019



RESPECTED RETAILERS  
W/ FUR BANS

““Fur is as much a no-no as ever. It’s sexually dodgy, feels funny and reeks when it’s rained on.””
— Olivier Lalanne, Deputy Editor at Vogue Paris & Editor in Chief of Vogue Hommes

FASHION PUBLICATIONS W/ FUR-FREE POLICIES

“I don’t think we are in the right of killing any living thing, most of all when it’s just to adorn ourselves. If you need a fur coat to make you feel like you’re fabulous, I hate to tell you but you’re not fabulous.”
— Mickey Boardman, PAPER editorial director & advice columnist

InStyle
fur-free since Editor-in-Chief Laura Brown started in August 2016

PAPER

Cosmopolitan UK

(Honorable mention) Vogue Paris dedicated its August 2017 issue to animal protection for which it only featured faux fur.

“I would never shoot or feature fur on my pages.”
— Sairey Stemp, Cosmopolitan UK Senior Fashion Editor

OTHER FASHION BIZ

Linden Staub Model Agency
fur ban March 2018

FASHION SCHOOL

PARSONS 
top fashion design school in NYC severed 15 year relationship with the fur industry in 2017.

Matthew Dominguez