Like many luxury brands, the Italian label Dolce & Gabbana announced on Tuesday that it would in turn abandon the use of animal fur in all its collections this year.
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Change of course for the Italian company Dolce & Gabbana this Tuesday: like many luxury brands, the brand has announced that it will give up the use animal fur in all its collections starting this year.
“Dolce & Gabbana is working towards a more sustainable future that cannot envision the use of animal fur”, commented Fedele Usai, group marketing manager, quoted in a press release. In order to “preserve the work and professionalism of master furriers”Dolce & Gabbana “cwill continue to work with them” in order to create “ecological fur clothing and accessories, using recycled and recyclable materials”.
In recent years, the major Italian houses Prada, Armani, Gucci, Versace, Furla and Valentino have banned animal fur from their collections. Moncler announced it in turn last Tuesday.
French haute couture houses like Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier, the British Burberry or the American brands Donna Karan, DKNY and Michael Kors have also turned away from fur.
The French group Kering led by François-Henri Pinault announced in September that all of its brands were now abandoning the use of fur.
Recently brands like Armani, after abandoning fur, have announced that they will also abandon angora.