2. Do you like any of these designers?
• Alexander McQueen
• Armani
• Burberry
• Calvin Klein
• Christian Dior
• D&G
• DKNY
• Ellie Saab
• Gucci
• Issey Miyake
• Jean Paul Gaultier
• John Galliano
• Louis Vuitton
• Nina Ricci
• Prada
• Ralph Lauren
• Topshop Unique
• Versace
• Viktor & Rolf
• Vivienne Westwood
3. ALL USE FUR!
http://www.britishfur.co.uk/index.php
6. Why Real Fur?
Real fur cannot be matched for its beauty, softness and glamour. The
attraction of real fur is also in its touch, its feel, and in its three-dimensional
quality. Designers speak of the way real fur plays with light and movement.
Furthermore, real fur is a natural sustainable product, delivering rare benefits
in sustaining fragile habitats and communities. This contrasts with most ‘fake’
fur which is manufactured from non-renewable petroleum based products.
Real fur is a durable material – quite the opposite of disposable fashion.
Provided it is well looked after, real fur will continue to look good for many
years. Real fur can be re-styled into different pieces as fashion changes.
Today, vintage fashion and vintage fur is sought after by many young people.
If new to fur buying vintage could be the way to discover the luxury of real fur
as vintage fur offers good value.
7. Welfare of Animals
The British Fur Trade Association (BFTA) is a
member of the International Fur Trade
Federation (IFTF). The IFTF promotes strict
codes of practice that meet or exceed
established and accepted animal welfare
standards for wild and farmed fur. The BFTA and
IFTF strongly condemn cruelty to animals and do
not trade in endangered species.
8. Facts and Figures
• Most farmed fur, which accounts for 80%-85% of the global fur trade, comes from
Europe and North America. The largest producers in the EU are
Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Poland.
• Fur farming is regulated according to national, agricultural and environmental
standards, EU directives and professional codes of conduct and guidelines.
• In the EU, European fur farmers abide by a European code of practice which
incorporates the revised Council of Europe Recommendation on the keeping of fur
animals.
• Fur farming plays a valuable role in the recycling chain by making efficient use of
the animal by-products of the fish and poultry industries. Each year over one
million tonnes of these by-products are used in the EU alone.
• Wild fur accounts for 15%-20% of the global fur trade, with Canada, Russia and
USA as the main suppliers.
• Wild fur production helps maintain natural eco-systems and the economies of
hundreds of remote communities around the world.
• The majority of wild species used by the fur trade are taken as part of wild life
management programmes, necessary for the maintenance of biodiversity, healthy
eco-systems, population and disease control. The wild species taken are abundant.
9. Socio-Economics and History
• The traditional way of life of many aboriginal
Canadians, Alaskans, ‘Cajun’ Louisianans, Siberians, Namibians and
Afghans involves hunting, fishing, trapping or herding.
• Fur gives these people the possibility of maintaining and reinforcing
their traditional lifestyle and cultural values. Fur also contributes to
many economies in different parts of the world. Find out some facts
and figures about this and the important role fur
production, manufacturing or retailing plays in these communities.
• Fur has a very long history and has always been valued for its
warmth and protective qualities. Learn more about the history of
fur fashion from its earliest beginnings and how it has developed
right up to the present day.
11. KFC
In July 2004, PETA revealed the results of an
investigation into a KFC-supplying slaughterhouse
in Moorefield, West Virginia, where workers were
caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking
them, and violently slamming them against floors
and walls. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks
off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their
eyes and mouths, spray-painted their faces, and
squeezed their bodies so hard that the birds
expelled faeces—all while the chickens were still
alive.
12. You’ll eat from KFC, yet moan against
fur in fashion when KFC care less for
animals?
13. The British Fur Trade Association (BFTA) is a
member of the International Fur Trade
Federation (IFTF), the welfare of animals is of
paramount interest to the fur sector, so what’s
the difference in using fur in fashion and eating
meat?
