London Fashion Week Bans The Use Of Exotic Animal Skin From 2025

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JAKARTA - London Fashion Week officially bans the use of exotic animal skin from 2025. Thus, designers who show off their products in London Fashion Week should not use exotic animal skin, such as crocodile skin, alligator, or snake.

Launching from The Guardian, Monday, December 2, 2024, this new regulation was announced by Deputy Director of the British Fashion Council (BFC), David Leigh-Pemberton in front of parliament. This step was taken as the government's commitment to sustainable fashion.

The BFC decision also received support from animal protection activists, including Dr. CharlotteMINA, the manager of the wildlife campaign at the World Animal Protection UK. According to him, the ban is amplifying messages to the global fashion industry that making fashion products by exploiting unethical animals.

"Millions of animals continue to suffer and die for fashion even though there are so many innovative and interesting animal-friendly materials, which designers and clothing companies can choose,"damble said.

The London Fashion Week move prohibits the use of exotic animal skin makes it a progressive fashion city among the other three cities with prestigious fashion weeks. The cities are Milan, New York, and Paris.

However, this isn't the first time a week of mode banning the use of exotic animal skin. This rule was previously made in small city-state mode weeks such as Stockholm, Melbourne, and Copenhagen.