Fashion giant Saint Laurent to ban use of fur in 2022

The luxury French fashion brand Saint Laurent will stop designing clothes using fur from next year, its parent company Kering has said.

Another Kering brand, Brioni, would also be fur-free by the autumn 2022 collections, the firm said.

Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault said the world “has changed”.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) welcomed the move after what it called a “decades-long” push to get Kering to ban the use of fur.

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