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Russia's economic crisis hurting Italian fur industry

New York - Russia's economic woes are being felt by the fur industry in Italy. In 2015, sales of Italian fox furs and minks took a plunge. The unusually warm weather in the Northern parts of the United States this winter did very little for their profits as well. The Russian ruble's decline and rising oil prices certainly weren't help fur sales...

Fashion

New PETA research shows 80 percent of London Fashion Week designers eschewing fur

Although images from last season's London Fashion Week runways seemed awashed with fur, according to the latest research from animal rights' organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, the vast majority of designers showing eschewed real fur for their Autumn-Winter 2015 collections. According to the International Fur Trade...