We need wildlife-free fashion
We need wildlife-free fashion
In a global extinction and ethical crisis, fashion is well overdue ending wild animal exploitation. We must act now.
Commercially sold fur, wild animal skins and feathers are always sourced unethically and unsustainably. Wildlife need effective and compassionate conservation, not commercialised cruelty.
Pioneers of the fashion industry are protecting wildlife, and we’re helping them.
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Global fashion week events are banning wildlife materials
We have supported London Fashion Week to ban fur and wild animal skins, in addition to Copenhagen, Berlin and Melbourne Fashion Week to ban all wildlife materials.
Our report with World Animal Protection overviews the issues and which fashion week events and major brands are progressing to protect wildlife. -
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Leaders in the watch industry are protecting wildlife
Luxury watchmaker Breitling worked with Collective Fashion Justice to update its policy and ban the use of all wild animal skins.
In place of wild animal skins, the company is working with innovative and aspirational bio-materials, featuring unique textures and properties. -
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Luxury fashion brands are banning wild animal materials
Chanel, Burberry, Victoria Beckham, Vivienne Westwood and other luxury brands have all banned wild animal skins. Others including Gucci, Versace, Armani, Coach and Prada banned fur.
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Fashion publications are taking wildlife exploitation out of vogue
ELLE Magazine banned fur from all of its publications, and InStyle magazine is totally wildlife-free. CFJ helped One Magazine to enact a similar wildlife-free policy.
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Respected voices are speaking out against wildlife exploitation for fashion
Fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski’s Creatives4Change project has seen the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Zoey Grossman, Laura Brown, and Diane Von Furstenberg say no to fur, wild animal skins and feathers.
Launched alongside 25 esteemed conservationists, Collective Fashion Justice introduces:
The International Declaration of Compassionate and Effective Conservation:
Against Killing Wild Animals for Fashion
“The critical protection of global ecosystems and biodiversity must include the protection of wild species killed in fashion supply chains.
The protection of these species must not only be limited to the protection of secure, stable populations, but must include animal welfare considerations: protection of individuals of these species, who deserve to live naturally in their habitat, free from profit-driven human intervention which results in significant suffering and ultimately, their needless slaughter.
The commodification of wild animals and their body parts devalues these species, driving further threats to them, their health, stability, wellbeing and conservation.”
Endorsed by these and other esteemed conservation and environmental experts:
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Dr Marc Bekoff
Award-winning researcher and author, professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado
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Dr Clifford Warwick
PGDip(MedSci) PhD CBiol CSci EurProBiol FRSB
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Dr Gordon M. Burghardt
Alumni Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus), Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
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Melissa Amarello
Co-founder & Executive Director, Advocates for Snake Preservation (ASP)
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Dr Jesús A. Rivas
New Mexico Highlands University, ecology and evolutionary biology expert specialising in reptiles
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Dr Tiffani J Howell
Senior Research Fellow (anthrozoology), School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University
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Chris Darwin
Nature conservationist, CEO of the Darwin Challenge, descendent of Charles Darwin
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Dr Phillip Arena
Functional morphologist, specialising in the biology, health and welfare of reptiles and a key investigator of the impact of recreational practices on rattlesnakes, marine turtles and crocodilians, Associate Lecturer, Murdoch University
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Professor Danielle Celermajer
University of Sydney, Sydney Environment Institute member
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Let us help you explore your supply chain, discuss wildlife-based materials or set a new policy.
“While parts of the global fashion industry claim that the sale and use of wild animal skins and feathers is a form of ‘conservation’, we oppose the notion that capturing, confining and killing wild animals is an acceptable or effective way to conserve these very species.”
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(did you know the IUCN ‘conservation’ group for crocodiles is chaired by the owner of the largest crocodile factory farm?)
