It's hard to believe The Psychedelic Furs only managed one US Top 40 hit. That song benefited from crucial timing.
BioFluff, a fashion-tech company based in Paris and New York, is producing a new alternative to animal pelts: one that’s made ...
Fur producers have a controversial reputation. While fur coats and other fur clothing items remain status symbols in many cultures, fur producers have come under pressure for raising animals like mink ...
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) – A decade ago, fur rancher Bob Zimbal had about 34,000 mink at his three southeastern Wisconsin farms. He was in survival mode, struggling to compete with farmers producing ...
As he does every year about this time, bronzed, husky Herbert A. Nieman was grading pelts on his silver fox farm near Hermansville, Mich. But this year pelting was different. Nieman, the biggest U.S.
The U.S. fur industry last week shook like a badly frightened rabbit. There was much to be frightened about. Retail fur prices were being cut generally from 25 to 50%. An auction of 25,000 ...
FINE furs have always been, and very likely always will be, comparatively rare, and therefore costly. The world supply of sable, mink, ermine, and the like, is definitely limited, even with the new ...