Help Get Under Urban Outfitters’ Skin

Every year, billions of animals are abused and killed to make clothing and accessories, and Urban Outfitters brands greatly contribute to this suffering. PETA has been calling on Urban Outfitters brands—including Anthropologie, Free People, and Urban Outfitters—to stop selling cruel animal-derived materials for years.

Skin is torn from cows to make leather, birds are held down while their feathers are ripped from their sensitive skin, sheep are beaten and mutilated by workers forced to rush, and alpacas are sheared so roughly that they have been recorded screaming and even vomiting in fear.

Urban Outfitters brands know this, but they refuse to act. Instead, they condemn defenseless animals to a lifetime of suffering by continuing to sell wool, cashmere, mohair, leather, down, silk, and alpaca fleece, which are always products of extreme violence, cruelty, and fear.

Here’s How YOU Can Help

1. Take action on our action alert.

By signing our action alert targeting Urban Outfitters, decision-makers at the company will receive an email directly in their inboxes explaining why the brand must stop exploiting animals for profit. You can read the pre-populated letter by clicking the button below (feel free to customize it to fit your unique writing style)!

2. Visit and share PETA’s “Urban Outraged” website.

Human skin is “in.” That’s according to Urban Outraged, PETA’s new “store” featuring products made from human-derived leather. Built to appear like a real online shopping experience, its goal is to make visitors question why it’s deemed acceptable to use the skin of any living, feeling being for fashion. And yes, it’s as disturbing as it sounds.

Visit the site and send a “gift card” to a friend. (Don’t worry—it’s fake. You don’t have to spend any money.) This gift card looks real and will link the recipient to the website.

3. Take to social media.

Take a few minutes every day to comment on Urban Outfitters’ posts and photos, letting the company and their followers know that cruelty is sewn into every item made with wool, skin, feathers, fleece, and hair! Make your statements even more powerful by using the hashtag #uocommunity.

4. Organize a protest with free support and supplies from PETA.

Spread the word while putting pressure on Urban Outfitters by protesting outside one of their locations. Hold posters, wear masks, hand out leaflets, and use our peel-off stickers that say “Closed for Cruelty” on store windows. Get a permit if necessary (you can do so by phoning local authorities) and review our steps for holding a demo. PETA can help with all of the above and more, including sharing your demo with animal advocates in the area.

5. Text URBAN to 73822.

Text the keyword URBAN to 73822 to send a message to Urban Outfitters, Inc., asking it to reflect on all the disturbing ways animals are violated for fashion and urging it to stop selling products that condemn sensitive beings to a miserable life and violent death.

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6. Call Urban Outfitters’ headquarters.

Call Urban Outfitters Inc. at 215-454-5500 (then press 0), and urge it to stop profiting from the torture and violent slaughter of animals.

Let us know how your call went, using the form below. By submitting this form to PETA, you are not taking action or contacting the company. This is a feedback form to help us improve the call-in experience.

Thank you for your compassion for animals.