Record-breaking prices at a recent Canadian fur auction are fueling claims of a market resurgence. But in a thin and globally-fragmenting market, industry experts say the spike may reflect short-term ...

Antarctic fur seals are the smallest of the polar seals and live almost exclusively on the island of South Georgia. The latest assessment by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global ...

BioFluff, a fashion-tech company based in Paris and New York, is producing a new alternative to animal pelts: one that’s made from plants, not plastics. BioFluff, a fashion-tech company based in Paris ...

Dobson was comparing the pigment-filled packets, called melanosomes, inside the hair of several mammal species when her Ph.D. supervisor, Liliana D’Alba, noticed the platypus oddity. Typically, ...

Is fur a faux pas? If the streets of New York are any indication, not at all. Attendees at New York Fashion Week (NYFW) — facing sub-freezing temperatures and bitter winds for the majority of it — ...

Using ideas borrowed from topological photonics, researchers in Singapore, France and the US have designed a compact antenna capable of handling information-rich terahertz (THz) signals. Reporting ...

Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades ...

Sports fans took a break from obsessing over the 49ers-Eagles playoff game on Sunday and instead focused their energy on making Erin Andrews—and the fur coat she wore while working the game—go viral.

Starting with the 2026 season, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) will cease all animal fur context across Official New York Fashion Week events, calendars, and digital channels This ...

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The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), which owns and organizes the New York Fashion Week (NYFW) calendar, announced today that it will not permit events on the official NYFW schedule to ...