Burberry, Diane von Furstenberg, Chanel, Maison Margiela, Versace, and John Paul Gaultier are some of the huge fashion houses to ban fur in 2018. London Fashion Week went completely fur free this year, and starting at 2019, all fur sales in the city of San Francisco will be banned. And back in 2014, the state of São Paulo in Brazil banned fur farming altogether, despite Brazil having a large chinchilla farming industry.
If you’re like me and have a painfully soft heart for animals, this wave is wonderful news, albeit embarrassingly overdue. We’ve known for a long time that fur farming is problematic to say the least, and for reasons I can only ascribe to as status-driven, fur has remained on the market. It is still the source of lively debate on both sides, and still I can’t rationalize how people think there is an ethical way to farm fur (anal electrocution, anyone?).
SO – the good news is that yes, more high-end brands and retailers like Net-a-Porter are refusing to sell the stuff and that is a WIN.
This also means that faux fur is EVERYWHERE, including in my closet.
We have Muffy, my coat from Zara that I wore in this post and is so large that she really needs her own social security number:
I have my teddy bear shearling crop jacket which I wear ad nauseum, if you saw my Instagram Stories in November.
And I nabbed this little number from Avec les Filles via Rent the Runway, lined with the most velvety faux fur ever. It happens to be on sale right now (scroll down to my coat picks to see more):
As I’m in the Southern Hemisphere at the moment and the idea of wearing a jacket is cringe-inducing in this humidity, I am most definitely not going to be modeling anything new here.
Instead, how about some options?
8 Coats to Try Now
Classic Faux Fur
Teddy Coats (Shearling)
Biker Jackets
Colorful Fur
There we have it! All about faux fur plus a shopping guide. Are you a faux fur fan, or is it too over the top?
love
Stig.
