{"id":129143,"date":"2018-10-23T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=129143"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:15:27","slug":"coach-bans-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/coach-bans-fur\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Says Goodbye to Fur for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movement to ban the use of fur clothing continues, and Coach is the latest brand to jump on board. The high-end luxury label just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessoffashion.com\/articles\/news-bites\/coach-bans-animal-fur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it&#8217;s going completely fur-free by the debut of its fall 2019 collection \u2013 yep, mink, coyote, fox, rabbit, and all other types of fur will be phased out.<\/p>\n<p>Coach&#8217;s pledge to ban fur follows other luxury brands and retailers including Gucci, Burberry, Michael Kors, Versace, and more. Currently, fur products make up less than one percent of Coach&#8217;s womenswear business, but as a well-known name and brand, this change will have a major impact on the fashion industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 500px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpE-KiIgJCT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading&amp;utm_campaign=embed_loading_state_script\" data-instgrm-version=\"10\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 60px; margin: 0 auto 16px; width: 210px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpE-KiIgJCT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading&amp;utm_campaign=embed_loading_state_script\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Coach (@coach)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-10-18T14:23:34+00:00\">Oct 18, 2018 at 7:23am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The policy is in line with shifting attitudes both within the fashion industry and wider society,&#8221; Joshua Shulman, Coach chief executive, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessoffashion.com\/articles\/news-bites\/coach-bans-animal-fur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business of Fashion<\/a>. &#8220;We understood from our employee population and from our consumers that it was important to them that we take a stand on this issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all the brands waving goodbye to the $40 billion global fur industry, there have also\u00a0been larger-scale efforts to ban fur trade. In September,\u00a0London Fashion Week became the first of major fashion weeks to keep fur off the catwalk, and California recently became the first state in the U.S. to legally <a href=\"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/california-bans-animal-tested-products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibit animal-tested products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the fashion industry&#8217;s ban on fur? Weigh in on the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"The movement to ban the use of fur clothing continues, and Coach is the latest ...","author":2488223,"featured_media":129150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/23112512\/fur.png","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/23112512\/fur-386x200.png","formated_date":"October 23, 2018","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#627bf7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}