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"It is time for Elle to make adidas nite jogger a statement ... rejecting animal cruelty," Bessolo Llopiz told delegates at The Business of Fashion Voices 2021 event in Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire, southern England. Instead, she said the magazine wanted to "increase awareness for animal welfare" and "foster a more humane fashion industry". The magazine has already dropped fur from 13 of its editions. Twenty more will drop fur from January 1, 2022 and the rest will start a year later.

"This announcement will ignite positive change throughout the entire fashion industry and has the adidas ultra boost 20 potential to save countless animals from a life of suffering and a cruel death," he told the conference. "Fur promotions belong only in the back copies of fashion magazines from days gone by," Elisa Allen, the UK director of animal rights organisation PETA, told AFP. She welcomed decisions by publications -- including British Vogue, InStyle USA, Cosmopolitan UK, and the newly launched Vogue Scandinavia -- rejecting fur on their editorial pages and expects the move to soon extend to advertising.

They include Gucci, Versace and Prada, Burberry, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, Donna Karan, DKNY and Michael Kors, as well as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Balenciaga. A 2020 YouGov survey found that 93 percent of British people refuse to wear natural fur while another by Research Co suggested that in the US, 71 percent opposed killing animals for their fur. In Europe, an FOP poll indicated that 90 percent of French opposed the fur trade, while adidas golf shoes 86 percent of Italians expressed opposition in a 2019 survey by Eurispes.

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