Fashion designers who were “afraid to touch it” 15 or 20 years ago have also “gotten past that taboo,” said Dan Mullen, a mink farmer in Nova Scotia. Many in the fur trade now readily ...

By the 1860's, the beaver hat was no longer the height of fashion and the fur trade was in decline.

It's more beautiful. And we don't approve of animal cruelty," said Bryn Taubensee and Patric DiCaprio, designers of the US-based Vaquera label, which presented a very fur-heavy collection this week in ...

In 1659, two French fur-traders - Pierre Esprit Radisson and his brother-in-law Mdard Chouart des Groseilliers - embarked on a journey into the Canadian interior that would transform the North ...

Leading French fashion journalist Matthieu Bobard Deliere said: "I think you can count the brands still using real fur on the runways on one hand." According to Ecopel, which closely monitors the ...