The Mercury (Pottstown, PA)

Burberry to drop real fur, stop destroying unsold goods

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LONDON » British luxury fashion brand Burberry said Thursday it will stop using real fur in its products and also stop destroying products that it cannot sell.

The company said there will be no real fur in its London Fashion Week angora.

The fashion house, which produces clothing, leather goods and beauty products, also said it will no longer dispose of unwanted and unsold stock by destroying it after the practice was criticized by environmen­tal activists this summer.

The company said in an Marco Gobbetti. “Modern luxury means being socially and environmen­tally responsibl­e.”

Burberry’s Sept. 17 runway show will mark the debut collection for new creative chief Riccardo Tisci, who replaced Christophe­r Bailey at the helm.

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 ?? PHOTO BY VIANNEY LE CAER/INVISION/AP, FILLE ?? catwalk show later this month. It will also phase out existing real fur products.Burberry said it has made only limited use of real fur in recent years with clothing incorporat­ing fur from rabbit, fox, mink and Asiatic racoon. Those will now be eliminated, along with use of In this 2017 file photo, animal rights activists and anti-fur militants stage a protest against its use before the Burberry fashion show at London Fashion Week. The British luxury fashion brand Burberry said Thursday, Sept. 6, it will stop using real fur in its products. earlier report that it destroyed more than 28 million pounds ($36 million) worth of luxury goods including beauty products in the last year to protect the brand’s image and keep its goods from being sold cheaply.It said Thursday it plans to expand efforts to “reuse, repair, donate or recycle unsaleable products.”“Our responsibi­lity goals cover the entire footprint of our operations and extend to the communitie­s around us,” said chief executive
PHOTO BY VIANNEY LE CAER/INVISION/AP, FILLE catwalk show later this month. It will also phase out existing real fur products.Burberry said it has made only limited use of real fur in recent years with clothing incorporat­ing fur from rabbit, fox, mink and Asiatic racoon. Those will now be eliminated, along with use of In this 2017 file photo, animal rights activists and anti-fur militants stage a protest against its use before the Burberry fashion show at London Fashion Week. The British luxury fashion brand Burberry said Thursday, Sept. 6, it will stop using real fur in its products. earlier report that it destroyed more than 28 million pounds ($36 million) worth of luxury goods including beauty products in the last year to protect the brand’s image and keep its goods from being sold cheaply.It said Thursday it plans to expand efforts to “reuse, repair, donate or recycle unsaleable products.”“Our responsibi­lity goals cover the entire footprint of our operations and extend to the communitie­s around us,” said chief executive

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