Big News! British Fashion Council Bans Wild-Animal Skins

PETA tips its hat to the British Fashion-Forward Council (BFC) for banning wild-animal skins from its catwalks! The ban comes less than a year after BFC instituted a long-overdue no-fur policy at London Fashion Week.

The news follows an extensive PETA campaign in which “crocodiles” protested outside London Fashion Week events, The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe Ross spoke out for reptiles while body-painted as a snake, PETA supporters showed up at 2020 London Fashion Week wearing hazmat suits to highlight the health hazards of farming animals for fashion, and we encouraged PETA supporters to send over 23,000 e-mails to the British Fashion Council about the use of wildlife skins. To each of you who joined our campaign, thank you. When we take action, we save animals’ lives!

We salute the compassionate British designers who helped usher in this new policy by recognising that crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and other animals should never be bludgeoned, impaled, or beheaded for their skin.

Snakes and Lizards Are Not Belts

Every lizard-skin purse or pair of crocodile-skin shoes is made from a sentient being who valued their life and was violently killed. A PETA Asia investigation into farms in Vietnam revealed that workers cut crocodiles’ necks and drove a metal rod down their spine before butchering the animals while they were still alive.

A PETA Asia investigation into slaughterhouses in Indonesia shows snakes being beaten with hammers, inflated with water, and cut with razors while they’re likely still conscious. PETA entities have also documented how the fashion industry decapitates conscious lizards with machetes.

The Future of Fashion Is Vegan

Several other fashion weeks have moved beyond banning fur and wild skins, with Melbourne Fashion Week and Copenhagen Fashion Week banning wild feathers and Helsinki Fashion Week banning leather. In doing so, they are inspiring creativity with designers using sustainable and animal-friendly vegan materials to create the look of feathers and more without hurting animals.
There is never an excuse for torturing animals for their skin. With an abundance of vegan textiles available, it has never been easier to ceate cruelty-free fashions.

Tell Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks to Follow Suit

Please urge the organisers of Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks to act now: