Fur-get about finding animal cruelty on the catwalk.

With New York’s Fall/Winter Fashion Week just around the corner, the Council of Fashion Designers of America has announced that fur will be gone for good — for most.

Beginning September 2026, real furs are banned from any designer collections showing on the official New York Fashion Week, owned and organized by the CFDA. This makes February’s NYFW showing the last to allow animal hides.

The regulation is in partnership with the Humane World for Animals and Collective Fashion Justice.

Banned materials are defined as “farmed or trapped fur from animals killed specifically for their pelts — including but not limited to mink, fox, rabbit, karakul lamb, chinchilla, coyote and raccoon dog.”

The September timeline was chosen to allow d

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