What we are witnessing is consumers saying en masse that they want the brands they buy from to be in favour of animal welfare.
Vienna, 10th August 2022 – Copenhagen Fashion Week announced
that it will go fur free for the first time in its history, joining
other key European fashion weeks such as Oslo, Amsterdam, and
Helsinki who have also banned it at its shows.
Over the past year many major fashion companies have also taken a
stance against selling fur such as Moncler, Dolce & Gabbana, and
Kering group with brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent and
Balenciaga.
Thomas Pietsch, Head of Wild Animals in Entertainment and Textiles
at FOUR PAWS, welcomed the decision by the event. Pietsch said, “The
momentum with banning fur farming and in particular as a practice in
fashion is at a historic moment and a major turning point. What we
are witnessing is consumers saying en masse that they want the
brands they buy from to be in favour of animal welfare."
“Paris and Milan fashion weeks have still not decided to go fur free
which is wholly unacceptable, both events must immediately decide to
join the majority of the European shows in banning this promotion of
this inhumane and unsustainable practice.”
- Thomas Pietsch, Head of Wild Animals in Entertainment and Textiles
at FOUR PAWS
2022 has also seen the launch of the European Citizens initiative
which aims to achieve an EU-wide ban on keeping and killing of
animals for the sole or main purpose of fur production, as well as
placing farmed animal fur, and products containing such fur, on the
EU market.
Background
The ECI Fur Free Europe was officially registered by the European
Commission on 16/03/2022 and will run from 18/05/2022 for one year.
The ECI was submitted by a group of citizens from 7 EU Member
States.
The European Union is one of the main regions for fur production
globally. Every year millions of animals (mainly mink, foxes and
raccoon dogs) are legally confined in small wire mesh cages and
killed to produce unnecessary, easily replaceable fur articles. The
mission is to end this cruel practice by introducing an EU-wide
prohibition of fur farming.
Copenhagen Fashion Week took place from August 9 to August 12, 2022.