Ibiza Fashion Festival Joins PETA’s Feather-Free Pledge
04.06.2025
Ibiza — After exposés by PETA entities revealing that birds exploited by the feather industry endure a miserable life and a violent death, Ibiza Fashion Festival has added its name to PETA’s Feather-Free Pledge and promised never to showcase feathers on their runways. The sustainability-focused fashion event is already free from fur and wild-animal skins, and will host PETA as part of its panel discussion on ethical fashion.
“The fashion industry is rapidly moving away from cruelty to animals – and that includes feathers,” says Ibiza Fashion Festival CEO Karen Windle. “We are proud to lead the way for a more conscious future of fashion by focusing on ethically made, cruelty-free materials on our catwalks.”
“We are grateful to Ibiza Fashion Festival for standing up for animals,” says PETA Vice President of Corporate Projects Yvonne Taylor. “Feathers are not fabric – they are part of animals’ bodies and are not ours to take We urge other fashion events to follow their lead and sign our Feather-Free Pledge.”
Ostriches are the most commonly exploited birds in the decorative feather trade. PETA entities have documented how workers in the fashion industry forcibly restrain young ostriches, electrically stun them, and slit their throats before tearing the feathers from their still-warm bodies. Other birds fare no better. On crowded farms, peacocks, pheasants, emus, turkeys, and chickens all endure miserable lives and painful deaths so that their feathers can be stolen for fashion. A PETA Asia investigation into down operations in Vietnam revealed that ducks suffered from gaping, bloody wounds and languished in filth before being stabbed in the neck while still conscious.
PETA notes that many designers and retailers — including Stella McCartney, Felder Felder, Richard Malone, Patrick McDowell, VIN + OMI, Pīferi, Sarah Regensburger, Gymshark, SkinnyDip London, and Helsinki Fashion Week —have already signed its Feather-Free Pledge, while many others are opting for luxurious vegan-friendly feathers made from organza, tulle, bamboo, metals, silicone, and recycled materials.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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