Laura Jacobs thought she would never wear animal fur, having witnessed years of protests over its use in clothing – until suddenly she started spotting it all over New York. Jacobs fished out the long ...

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 ...

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 ...

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a long list of strange features on this unique creature. These odd mammals also ...

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, ...

Early last week I got a text from a friend I’ll call Penny: “What’s the read on wearing a fur coat right now?” Penny had inherited a gray fox-fur coat from her grandmother—and the below-freezing ...

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 — ...

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.

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