Collective Fashion Justice is driven by tangible progress.
Here’s everything we’ve achieved since forming.
For the first time, a Global Fashion Summit panel had a focus on animal protection.
May 2024, after we highlighted the lack of attention on the issue, the Summit held a panel including our founder, focused on leather and its ethical and environmental impacts.
Berlin Fashion Week banned all wildlife materials.
June 2024, BFW implemented all of CPHFW’s minimum standards for sustainability, including its wildlife-free policy that we consulted on the writing of.
The City of Melbourne updated its grant policy to prevent unethical animal treatment from being funded through fashion events.
March 2024, the city will now no longer fun fashion events showcasing unethical animal-derived materials like wild animal materials and those derived from particularly cruel supply chains.
Copenhagen Fashion Week bans wild animal skins and feathers, making it totally wildlife-free.
March 2024, following our consultation with organisers alongside World Animal Protection. A CFJ document on animal-derived material impacts is also shared with all exhibiting designers.
LCI Jakarta and Surabaya transform their entire fashion courses to include total ethics teachings.
March 2024, as our consultation and re-design with LCI Melbourne begins to be addressed by international arms of the fashion school.
London Fashion Week bans fur from its runways.
February 2024, following our ongoing engagement with the British Fashion Council.
An Australian government education institution transforms its fashion and design curriculum to align with total ethics fashion.
January 2024, following consultation by CFJ with Boxhill Institute educators.
Total Ethics Fashion is listed as one of the three best style books of 2023 by the Financial Times.
November 2023, this achievement came a month after our founder’s book was published.
A Victorian Parliament report recommends funding the growth of hemp production and removing barrier to the industry’s development.
November 2023, after CFJ wrote a submission and spoke as an expert witness in public hearings.
The Iconic, Australia’s largest online fashion retailer, commits to banning decorative feathers.
October 2023, following our engagement and investigative
work on the issue.
Melbourne Fashion Week becomes first global event to protect all wildlife species with policy banning fur, skins and feathers from wild animals.
October 2023, as announced at our M/FW event and following our consultation on wildlife.
GCNYC becomes the first fashion school to endorse our total ethics fashion manifesto.
September 2023, when our manifesto launched, receiving over 450 endorsements within a month of its release.
Major department store MYER cuts ties with the horse racing industry.
July 2023, following our pressure campaign and action for a fashion industry that protects horses.
LCI Melbourne transforms its entire fashion course to include total ethics teachings.
August 2023, following assessment and co-design between CFJ and the fashion school.
Animal protection was included in the UNEP’s Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook.
June 2023, after CFJ reviewed and consulted on the draft Playbook, and advised on the need for this inclusion.
Nike bans mulesing, reducing suffering for exploited sheep in the wool industry.
June 2023, following a FOUR PAWS pressure campaign built off of our investigative footage of mulesing.
Kering updates its fur ban to include all fur, including felted fur and angora.
May 2023, following our pressure in response to Gucci’s use of rabbit fur felt in hats, despite its ban on fur, which included a loop-hole for fur not attached to skin.
Australian brand Dead Pretty phases out wool, moving towards Tencel instead.
April 2023, following our consultation on the climate and biodiversity impact of wool, as well as its impact on animals.
1.7 million European citizens supported a Fur Free Europe.
January 2023, led by Eurogroup for Animals, CFJ was proud to be a part of the Fur Free Europe campaign group.
Nike and Puma ban kangaroo leather.
March 2023, following a global movement for kangaroo and wildlife protection efforts, which CFJ contributed to.
Melbourne Fashion Week strengthened its policy banning exotic skins to ensure it protected all wild animals exploited for their skins.
October 2022, following our consultation with the event organisers, alongside World Animal Protection Australia.
The SLAY documentary launches, and is viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
September 2022, the film’s launch pushed a global conversation on the use of fur, leather and wool.
City of Sydney banned fur, wild animal skins and feathers from its markets.
September 2022, following our engagement and the work of politician Emma Hurst MLC.
Copenhagen Fashion Week bans fur.
August 2023, following our consultation, the Danish capital once known for fur sales made its commitment.
Sellers found selling genuine fur labelled as ‘faux’ fined and committed to banning all fur.
February 2022, following our work and fur testing with Andy Meddick MP of the Animal Justice Party.
City of Sydney and AfterPay commit to ensuring Sydney’s Australian Fashion Week is fur and exotic skin free so long as they are sponsors.
April 2022, following a global movement for kangaroo and wildlife protection efforts, which CFJ contributed to.
Multi-award winning film Willow & Claude included in Australian regional schools.
February 2022, our short film on total ethics knitwear is now a listed Government resource for agriculture students.
New York City legislation for sustainable textile purchasing becomes law.
October 2021, following our consultation and testimony, the City is now required to purchase responsible textiles.
Collective Fashion Justice was founded at the beginning of 2021, committed to creating a total ethics fashion system protecting people, animals and the planet.
We primarily work towards this goal by shifting the fashion industry beyond animal-derived materials, as the production of these harm all three of these groups. We also work towards a fashion system free from fossil fuel use and deforestation, which exists within planetary boundaries and pays living wages.
As well as our policy-related wins listed here, we are proud to have contributed to ongoing education of students and the fashion industry with our resource and report production, and towards cultural change through our advocacy.
More on total ethics fashion
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Our strategic plan
For a more detailed overview of our annual achievements and the strategies that help us achieve them, read our strategic plan and reporting.
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What is total ethics fashion?
Coined by our founding director, Emma Hakansson, ‘total ethics fashion’ is a new and more holistic vision for the fashion industry.
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Our campaigns and work
Explore all of our campaigns, reports, resources and other efforts towards a total ethics fashion system for people, our fellow animals and the planet.