Designer and researcher. How PETA Won the Angora Debate and What It Means for Fashion. NEW YORK, United States — In the spring of 2016, a group of top-tier fashion executives convened in midtown Manhattan for a closed-door meeting.
The conversation centred on the treatment of animals and the ethics policies they had in place. It was clear that many brands felt more pressure than ever to cooperate with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — the international non-profit organisation widely known as PETA. “Look at what PETA did to angora,” one executive said. “They virtually wiped it out.” Indeed, in 2013, PETA took on the trade in angora rabbit fur in what proved to be one of its most successful campaigns, releasing a video of a rabbit in China — the world's top producer of angora wool — being tortured and mutilated, its fur hand-plucked from its body.
Indeed, sales of angora rabbit wool — not to be confused with the fleece of the angora goat, also known as mohair — have decreased dramatically since PETA launched its campaign. Related Stories: We Could Soon Be Wearing Leather Made From Human Skin. H&M DoSomething Comeback Clothes Campaign - Recycle Your Clothes. DoSomething.org Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Now's the time to do something good with that old ripped tee you've been holding onto!
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Melbourne Spring Fashion Week: Ethical threads in the spotlight. Let's play celebrity word association with Isabel Lucas.
Go. Home and Away actress. Environmental activist. Vegetarian. Bet you're not thinking the face of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, simply because you associate her with a hippy, Coachellaesque kind of dressing down vibe, not a red carpet dressing up. Not so fast (fashion). It turns out that the fashion industry is in the midst of a crisis. Here's a non-inclusive list of problems that the industry needs to address with some (not all) well-known brands. And the city of Melbourne isn't trying to sweep it all under the rug. What makes all of this is so unusual is that the topic isn't necessarily a sexy one, and fashion is all about wrapping sexiness up in velvet and a designer logo.
Still, even ethical designers know that there's a fine line between being mindful and having a gutful. But naming and shaming became a sticking point for local clothing company Gorman (which could not be contacted for this article). Revolt at French Connection. Investor piles pressure on French Connection to address concerns. Copenhagen Fashion Week Spotlights Sustainability. Copenhagen Fashion Week, which began Wednesday and runs through Friday, is giving sustainability some good play.
The event held in the wake of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which drew 1,250 industry delegates last May, had sustainable label Fonnesbech on its first day — Crown Princess Mary of Denmark sat front row at the Fonnesbech display — and two Swedish brands with a sustainability perspective on day two: House of Dagmar and Uniforms For The Dedicated, two newcomers to the Copenhagen calendar.
“The vision is the gap that Copenhagen could fill: to take the position as the sustainability destination and bring together the brands from all over the world who want to work on sustainability,” said Eva Kruse, chief executive officer of Copenhagen Fashion Week, noting that she would like H&M to reveal its Conscious Collection during Copenhagen Fashion Week, as well as draw such players as Stella McCartney and Prada, who both have an ethical point of view in terms of production.