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M&S receives first-ever award from PETA for vegan retail

Marks and Spencer has been recognized for its vegan efforts. PETA awarded the British retailer with its first ever “Vegan-Friendly High Street Retailer” recognition. M&S has broadened its product offerings across both fashion and food to allow vegan-friendly options for customers who follow the lifestyle. The retailer's Plant Kitchen range...

Fashion

Lacoste joins list of brands banning mohair

The mohair industry remains in hot water as yet another fashion brand decides to ban the material from its future collections. French casual label Lacoste has joined a list of over 300 apparel companies pledging to no longer use mohair after a video expose from PETA depicted animal cruelty in angora goat farms in South Africa, the world’s...

Fashion

Peta launches Christmas campaign

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has launched a new Christmas campaign featuring actress Penelope Cruz to urge shoppers to ditch fur this festive season. Oscar-winning actress Cruz, who previously appeared in an anti-fur ad for Peta US in 2012, is shown cradling a ginger cat alongside the tagline, ‘Make Us Purr. Don’t Wear Fur’...

Fashion |UPDATE Featured

Chanel sheds crocodile and snake skin

Chanel has become the first luxury fashion house to turn its back on exotic animal pelts such as lizard, crocodile and snake skin, in a move hailed by animal rights groups Tuesday. Its head of fashion Bruno Pavlovsky declared that it "would no longer use exotic skins in our future creations", saying it was becoming more difficult to source...

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...

Fashion |INTERVIEW Featured

The rise of vegan fashion: Q&A with Delicious California

London - Veganism is undoubtedly on the rise. While the subject was once restricted to conversations about food and diet, veganism has now made itself comfortable in almost every facet of society, with the issue of humans’ use of animal products making its way more and more onto the centre stage of fashion, and even branching out into the...

Fashion Featured

Peta Fashion Awards announce 2018 winners

Asos, Burberry, and Dr Martens are among the winners of Peta Fashion Awards 2018, which celebrates the luxury labels, fashion moments, and forward-thinking brands that have made "big statements for animals”. The animal rights charity named Asos as the Most Progressive Online Platform, after the e-commerce giant announced earlier this year...

News

Peta Fashion Awards announce 2018 winners

Fashion

French fashion giant Jean Paul Gaultier goes fur-free

Animal rights groups hailed on Monday Jean Paul Gaultier's announcement that he is joining the growing ranks of fashion designers to ban fur from their collections. The enfant terrible of French couture announced the decision in a television interview on Saturday, describing the methods used to kill the animals as "absolutely deplorable". "Fur...

Retail

Notonthehighstreet becomes latest UK retailer to ban use of Mohair

UK e-tailer Notonthehighstreet has become the latest addition to PETA’s list of retailers and vendors ditching the use of mohair in their products. The announcement comes after the release of a PETA video exposé in June uncovering the appalling treatment of goats across 12 goat farms in Angora, South Africa. The undercover footage filmed by PETA...

Business

PETA buys Farfetch shares to push company to stop selling fur

Animal rights organization PETA announced the purchase of Farfetch sales, after the British luxury marketplace became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday. The move will allow PETA to attend Farfetch’s annual meetings, during which the organization aims to push the company to stop selling fur. Farfetch currently...

Business

Ralph Lauren joins list of fashion brands banning mohair

Ralph Lauren is the latest fashion company pledging to stop using mohair in its future collections. All of the group’s brands, including Ralph Lauren Home, Polo Ralph Lauren, Chaps, Club Monaco and American Living, will no longer feature the controversial material. The information was shared with journalists in a statement issued by animal...