Fashion designers who were “afraid to touch it” 15 or 20 years ago have also “gotten past that taboo,” said Dan Mullen, a mink farmer in Nova Scotia. Many in the fur trade now readily ...

By the 1860's, the beaver hat was no longer the height of fashion and the fur trade was in decline.

Leading French fashion journalist Matthieu Bobard Deliere said: "I think you can count the brands still using real fur on the runways on one hand." According to Ecopel, which closely monitors the ...