Australian Fashion Week is now wildlife-free
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Thanks to your support we are celebrating a huge win for animals. Australian Fashion Week (AFW) has just banned all wildlife materials including fur, wild animal skins and feathers.
Image credit: World Animal Protection / Aaron Gekoski
The move comes after years of advocacy, as well as collaboration with our friends at Collective Fashion Justice – who wrote this new policy alongside Australian Fashion Council (the organisers of Aus Fashion Week).
The runways at Australian Fashion Week 2025 will be completely free from wildlife exploitation, with the policy coming into immediate effect.
This shift to a truly sustainable fashion week has been driven by thousands of compassionate Australians like you who believe animals should never be exploited in the name of fashion.
This win builds on previous wildlife-free commitments we’ve helped develop alongside Collective Fashion Justice, including Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival, and international runways in Berlin and Copenhagen.
This latest announcement is a reminder that the fashion industry can be a positive force for wildlife, and change the lives of crocodiles, ostriches, minks and more.
We are seeing a domino effect of fashion events around Australia and the world rejecting exotic skins, feathers and fur. With this new wildlife friendly policy, Australian Fashion Week have joined the growing list of runways that are embracing innovative alternatives to cruelty.
Each year, tens of thousands of wild animals such as ostriches and crocodiles are cruelly exploited and brutally slaughtered for the profits of fashion brands. Killing wild animals for fashion is unacceptable, especially when there are sustainable and ethical alternatives, like faux leather and faux fur.
With you by our side, we’ll continue to call on the wider fashion industry to end its reliance on wildlife exploitation. Together, we can create a wildlife friendly future for fashion.
Stop crocodile slaughter
Call on the Minister for Environment and Water, Murray Watt, to do the right thing for Australian crocodile welfare.
Wildlife free fashion
Right now, millions of wild animals are being captured, abused, bred, and mercilessly slaughtered so that the fashion industry can maximise their profit.