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PETA buys stock in Ralph Lauren, Urban Outfitters and others

Animal rights group PETA has taken advantage of the COVID-19 stock market downturn through purchasing stock in nearly two dozen fashion companies, including Ralph Lauren, Urban Outfitters and Guess. This move is a strategy the organization often takes to influence decisions made by clothing companies. PETA frequently purchases the minimum number...

17 hours ago

Business

Peta buys stake in Frasers Group to challenge fur policy

Animal rights organisation Peta has bought a one percent stake in Mike Ashley’s House of Fraser after the retailer began restocking items containing fur despite a “strict no-fur policy”. It means representatives of the organisation will be able to attend the retail chain's annual meeting in September and confront Ashley about the policy. “House...

7 Feb 2020

Fashion

Claiming victory, PETA ends 30-year campaign against fur

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is to stop its iconic anti-fur campaign featuring naked celebrities. Why? Because they feel they have achieved their mission. Claiming victory against the use of fur Thirty years after debuting its “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” initiative, the animal rights group is putting the ad...

7 Feb 2020

Fashion

Paul Smith bans exotic skins from future collections

British fashion label Paul Smith has banned exotic skins in all its future collections. The brand told animal rights organisation Peta that the ban includes ‘K-leather’ - leather made from kangaroo skin. Peta - which has published several exposés on the exotic skins industry in recent years, including ones on the treatment of goats, alligators,...

30 Jan 2020

Fashion

Killer fashion, the dark side of our history of glamor

As fashion month gets into its stride, will the industry’s dark side upstage the glamor? Will PETA stage protests outside the shows of designers still stuck on using fur? Will Extinction Rebellion make headlines emphasizing the damage our industry continues to inflict on the planet? Currently the plight of the fashion industry’s “victims” forms...

14 Jan 2020

Fashion

Karl Lagerfeld label pledges to go fur-free

Karl Lagerfeld has said goodbye to fur. PETA announced this week that the luxury fashion label has agreed to ban the use of fur in its products, along with the rest of its sibling-companies. The entire AM Retail Group, which owns Wilsons Leather, G.H. Bass & Co., Calvin Klein Performance, Karl Lagerfeld Paris and DKNY stores, will go entirely...

19 Dec 2019

Retail

Canada Goose protest injunction rejected

The High Court has rejected Canada Goose’s bid to restrict protestors at its European flagship store in London. Luxury outerwear brand Canada Goose has been targeted by activists protesting about its sale of coats that are manufactured using animal products including fur and down since it opened on Regent Street in London in 2017. In an attempt...

7 Nov 2019

Fashion

Chanel, Victoria Beckham, and Miley Cyrus Among Winners of PETA Fashion Awards 2019

Group Commends the Fashion Moments, Style Icons, and Progressive Brands That Have Made Big Statements for Animals This Year London – As consumer demand for ethical fashion keeps rising, fashion brands increasingly offer clothing for which animals weren't beaten, slaughtered, or skinned – as well as items made with materials that are less harmful...

29 Oct 2019

Fashion

Animal rights, climate concerns and a missing Abloh casts a shadow over PFW

Paris women's fashion week is bracing itself for climate change and animals rights protests as it starts Monday, with one of its biggest stars -- Virgil Abloh -- missing. Extinction Rebellion activists had called for London fashion week to be cancelled entirely because of the "climate emergency" and laid down their own bleeding red carpet to...

23 Sep 2019

Fashion

Fashion goes fur free: is France falling behind the times?

Faced with increasing opposition to fur from the general public, more and more brands are withdrawing it from their collections, the most recent of these being Olivier Rousteing, artistic director at Balmain, who announced the brand was scrapping the animal product. But has France fallen behind its European neighbours on the subject? According...

30 Aug 2019

Fashion

Haute couture turns back on fur, both real and fake

Something rather significant was missing from the Paris haute couture shows which wrapped up on Wednesday night -- fur. Beyond the guest appearance of American designer Ralph Rucci, there was none of the luxuriantly sensual mink, fox or sable that for decades defined the autumn winter collections of the elite Paris shows. More significant still,...

4 Jul 2019

Fashion

What Peta thinks of fashion’s animal-friendly makeover

When Michael Kors dropped fur from his collections he explained his decision was based on the ability to create a luxe aesthetic using non-animal fur, Donatella Versace said killing animals no longer felt right, Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri cited the lack of need for it due to the elevated quality of the alternatives. Last month, Prada made similar...

2 Jul 2019