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8 years ago
Yes! Diane von Furstenberg to Ditch Fur, Exotic Skins, Mohair, AND Angora
DVF, the luxury fashion company from Diane von Furstenberg, has just become the latest brand to stop using fur in its collections! The newly announced policy will take effect at the beginning of 2019 and will not only put an end to the use of fur by the company but also target exotic skins, mohair, and angora. With the decision, the brand has joined a number of other fashion names that have recently committed to no longer supporting the cruel fur industry by going entirely fur-free.
The move was announced by DVF’s CEO Sandra Campos who shared that it was time for the brand “to make this change and accept responsibility to ensure that we don’t promote killing animals for the sake of fashion.” Last year, Von Furstenberg, once named the most powerful woman in fashion by Forbes and one of the 100 most influential people by Time, met with Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in New York City. During the meeting, she quickly decided that she would Support the organization’s fur-free campaign, Kitty Block, acting CEO and president of HSUS, shared on her blog.
According to HSUS, more than 100 million animals are killed every year in the fur trade. The animals who lose their lives in this way are taken from the wild or raised in abhorrent conditions before being killed by electrocution or gassing. The production of fur has nothing to do with the luxury and glamour with which furs have grown to be equated. Fortunately, the tides are turning against the use of this material in the fashion industry which is embracing fur alternatives – a change that results in millions of saved animal lives.
Major high fashion brands including Gucci, Burberry, and Versace have already announced that they would be dropping fur from their lines. Given her standing in the industry, Von Furstenberg’s decision is a huge step forward in the case of abandoning fur in fashion. Her decision sends a clear signal to other creators and will have a significant impact on the way fur is perceived and treated in the near future – so hopefully we will be seeing more and more news like this!
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Thank you, Diane von Furstenbers. We have been waiting for that for quite a while. I agree with Denise Baudin.
Well, well, well!!!! GLAD to hear that Ms.von FURstenberg – NOTICE THE FIRST 3 LETTERS in her last name "FURstenberg"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – has FINALLY SAW THE LIGHT. Ms. FURstenberg REALIZES ALL THE SUFFERING SHE, her "DECISION MAKERS" and her hired animal slaughterers caused to helpless animals such as of raccoons, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, opossums, nutria, beavers, otters and other fur-bearing animals. ALL OF THAT BLOODY SNARE TRAPPING OF ANIMALS IN ORDER TO FATTEN-UP THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS.
Ms. FURstenberg, in case you do not know, here is how furry animals are slaughtered by your "hired help" using snare traps:
A SNARE traps an animal around the neck or the body; a SNARE consists of a noose made usually by WIRE or a STRONG STRING.
ALSO, there are several more torturing traps:
Steel-Jaw Leghold Traps. An archaic device used for centuries and still today,
“Padded” Leghold Traps. …
Snare Traps. …
Conibear Traps.
I bet you, Ms. FURstenberg, and ALL of your “decision makers” count your blessings every day not to have been born a furry animal such as raccoons, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, opossums, nutria, beavers, otters or other fur-bearing animals and you know exactly why……….
WHEN is Ms. FURstenberg\’s decision to stop torturing, trapping and slaughtering furry animals for money coming into effect?????????????????????
2 months, 2 years, 5 years??????????????????? WHEN????????????????
"Gucci, Burberry, and Versace have already announced that they would be dropping fur from their lines". REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????? I bet they too and ALL of their “decision makers” are counting their blessings every day not to have been born a furry animal such as raccoons, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, opossums, nutria, beavers, otters or other fur-bearing animals. They too know exactly why……
WHEN will Gucci\’s and others\’ decision to stop TRAPPING furry animals come into effect??????????????????? OR ARE THEY PLANNING ON CONTINUING THE FATTENING-UP OF THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS FOR A FEW MORE YEARS???????????????????? WHEN??????????????????
PEOPLE AT LARGE: Let\’s BOYCOTT all those bloody companies until they put a final STOP to all this blood dripping on ……………… "fashion!!!" people.
BOYCOTT
BOYCOTT
BOYCOTT