New York Fashion Week joins a growing list of fashion entities banning fur

Alexander Wang at New York Fashion Week 2025. Fur will be banned from the event starting Sept., 2026.

Last week, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which organizes New York Fashion Week, announced that it will ban fur from its runways as of September, 2026. The CFDA also said it would cease to promote the material in its any of its marketing as of February.

It’s the second of the “big four” fashion weeks to make the move. In 2023 the British Fashion Council decided to ban fur from London Fashion Week (it further banned exotic skins in 2024). Paris and Milan have yet to implement a similar policy.

“There is already little to no fur shown at NYFW, but by taking this position, the CFDA hopes to inspire American designers to think more deeply about the fashion industry’s impac