The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The outerwear brand known for its puffy jackets with fur-trimmed hoods said Thursday it will end the use of fur in all its products by late 2022.
The company is the latest in a growing list of major brands to drop the material, amid pressure from animal-rights campaign groups and some consumers. In March, Kering-owned brands Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga confirmed they are also phasing out of the material.
Canada Goose said it will take a phased approach to going fur free, ending the purchase of fur by the end of 2021 and ceasing to manufacture any products containing it by the end of 2022.
France is pressing ahead with a ‘game-changing’ bill that would impose a ‘sin tax’-style penalty on fast-fashion products as high as €10 per item by 2030.
In the weeks since one of the industry’s most promising recycling start-ups filed for bankruptcy, big brands have put more money and more commitment into bringing innovations to market.
Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.
The fast-fashion giant has joined Vargas and TPG to back a new polyester recycling venture following its failed bet on Renewcell.