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Chalk up another win for the critters.
Canada’s APP Group, which owns luxury outerwear makers Mackage and Soia & Kyo, said Tuesday that it’s giving animal pelts the kiss-off across all its brands.
The conglomerate made the announcement through People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which has been lobbying APP Group to nix the rabbit, fox and Finland raccoon furs that line many of its rarified wool coats.
It’s another sign of fur’s slipping hold on Western consumers. Since March, several fashion nameplates have announced plans to halt or phase out their use of the material, including Kering brands Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Valentino and fellow Great White Northerners Canada Goose, Moose Knuckles and Holt Renfrew. Further east, Israel became the first country to outlaw the sale of fur barring certain religious exceptions. The United Kingdom is mulling a similar ban. California has made the sale of new fur verboten since 2019, and New York could be next to follow suit.
“Any retailer who can read the writing on the wall is giving fur the boot,” Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA, said in a statement. “Pieces of animals’ stolen coats are disappearing from the shelves of brands from Canada Goose and Moose...