All Major Fashion Magazines Have Now Ditched Fur – Read Hearst’s Statement
Fur has officially had its day in fashion magazines – as publications including Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire have become the latest to ban it across their pages and platforms.
Hearst Magazines, which also owns Cosmopolitan and Town & Country, confirmed that no editorial or advertising will feature real animal fur. Elle, which is also owned by Hearst, already has a fur-free policy in place.
Hearst’s Statement on Fur
In a statement, a spokesperson for Hearst said: “Across our portfolio of wholly owned global brands, Hearst Magazines prohibits the promotion of animal fur in editorial content and advertising. (Our guidelines recognise defined exceptions and apply to all new business and future content).”
Major Fashion Magazines Ban Fur
It’s high time that these iconic publications have recognised that each mink, fox, raccoon dog, and other animal used for fur is someone, not something, and joined the huge cohort of major fashion brands moving away from clothes made from the skins of sentient beings.
Hearst follows closely in the footsteps of Vogue owner Conde Nast, which announced its own fur-free policy earlier in 2025.
The Fur Industry
Every animal used for fur is a sentient individual who wants to be free – just like we do. Instead, they are kept in filthy wire cages and forced to live in their own excrement before being killed for an ugly and frivolous piece of clothing.
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The Fashion World Is Ditching Fur
Hearst’s decision to ditch fur is yet another major blow to the cruel and irrelevant industry, which is being left behind by the fashion world.
New York Fashion Week banned fur at the start of December 2025, following in the footsteps of the likes of Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam, Sydney, and Stockholm. The most well-respected figures in the fashion world, from designers to magazine editors, are realising that there is nothing stylish about wearing someone else’s skin.
Poland, one of the world’s largest fur producers, also signed a fur farming ban into law in December 2025, to be implemented in 2033. It joined the likes of the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Norway, and Sweden.
The world has moved on from fur – and every fashion brand that continues to use it is an ugly outlier.
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