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Selfridges to ban exotic skins by next year

British luxury retailer Selfridges announced today a plan to phase out exotic skins. By this time next year, it will no longer sell leathers from python, alligator, lizard and crocodile, and instead will sell only leather from agricultural livestock. Selfridges first banned the sale of fur in 2005 - quite ahead of the game compared to retailers...

Fashion

Chanel to ban fur and exotic skins from future collections

“The champagne corks are popping at PETA”, said the organization’s Director of International Programmes, Mimi Bekhechi, on an email to FashionUnited. The reason? Luxury fashion house Chanel is reported to have banned the use of fur and exotic skins, including crocodile, lizard, snake and stingray, from its future collections. “For decades, PETA...