Fashion With Compassion: SHEIN Bans Fur, Wild Animals’ Skins, and Exotic Feathers

Victory! After hearing from PETA about how foxes, rabbits, ostriches, and other wild animals suffer in the fashion industry, retail giant SHEIN made a compassionate change. SHEIN has added third-party sellers to its company-wide ban on fur and wild-animal skins, which now includes any items made from the skins or feathers of ostriches, alligators, and other animals considered “exotic.”

SHEIN Marketplace Bans Fur and Bags Made From Exotic Animals’ Skins

In 2023, SHEIN introduced a marketplace platform for third-party sellers, and the following year, PETA supporters and staff flagged real fur coats and wild animal skin bags for sale on the marketplace. SHEIN had a policy banning fur from its in-house brands, but it predated the marketplace’s introduction and didn’t apply to third-party sellers there.

However, after PETA met with SHEIN and shared information on the fur and wild animals’ skins industries, the company quickly updated its policy to ban fur and wild animals’ skins across the entire site.

SHEIN’s compassionate decision will help communicative foxes, nurturing ostriches, and protective crocodiles. PETA entities’ dozens of investigations revealed that workers imprison foxes and other animals in filthy wire cages for their fur, yank out the feathers of ostriches one by one, and hack at crocodiles’ necks and shove metal rods down their spines in a crude attempt to kill them for their skin.

Urge Other Companies to Follow SHEIN’s Compassionate Move for Animals

SHEIN joins hundreds of major designers and retailers—including ASOS, Burberry, Canada Goose, Chanel, Macy’s, Nike, and Nordstrom—in banning fur and wild-animal skins. PETA is now rallying the public to urge Pharrell Williams, Louis Vuitton’s menswear creative director, to follow the rest of the industry’s lead and ban wild-animal skins and furs from LVMH.