Chanel Announcement: Stop Using Exotic Skins

Chanel announced Monday that in future collections, it will not use any exotic skins.

Exotic Skins include crocodile skin, lizard skin, snake skin and stingray skin. President of Chanel Bruno Pavlovsky said, furs would also be given up in the future. He added that the future high-class products would be made of our workshop's fabrics.

Pavlovsky explained that the purchasing of furs which meet the standards of Chanel is hard, so Chanel will focus on development of fabrics.

He also said in the next catwalk some garments made of Chanel's own workshop will be displayed.

On Dec. 4, Chanel will hold an annual handcraft show in Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This will be the first time for Chanel since 2006.

Moreover, he admitted that there are still some product lines using fur, so it takes some time to sell those. And he refused to disclose the scale of relevant businesses.

Karl Lagerfeld said, he couldn't remember Chanel once designed fur-related goods, and " in the past, we don't use much fur. Stopping using exotic skins is our own choice rather than somebody's demand. Ironically, Fur is the core raw material for another luxury brand Fendi where Karl Lagerfeld was design supervisor.

Recently, many luxury fashion brands have announced their decision not to use animal skins. Some cities in Europe and the United States passed relevant laws to prohibit the sale of furs. Luxe.CO reported:

Amsterdam, following San Francisco, has drafted the bill of banning sales of furs.

San Francisco will ban the trading of fur garments from 2019, becoming the largest anti-fur city.

Two Italian famous brands Versace and Furla also take part in the campaign of anti-fur.

Northern Europe also boycotts furs. Norwegian government plans to shut down farms producing animal furs completely by 2025.

Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo also follow this trend.

American retail giant VF announced its decision not to utilize animal furs as well.

Gucci also follows.

In this anti-fur campaign, fur producer and relevant organizations made some responses. In the argument about furs in April in the UK, supporters believed that consumers had the right to purchase furs, and furs were more eco-friendly. That argument was the same as International Fur Federation's.

British Fur Trade pointed out that although many brands had decided to leave furs behind, they all still used exotic skins and feathers secretly.