Monday, 9 June 2025

ANTI FUR PROTEST | Soho NYC


While walking last week through Broome Street in the heart of SoHo’s shopping district, I came across a small spirited but vociferous anti-fur protest, which aimed at drawing attention to animal cruelty in the fashion industry.

To me, documenting civil disobedience is like catnip to a cat, so I snapped a handful of frames of the raucous event.

I haven't seen nor heard of anti-fur protests for quite some time, and read in the New York Times that the anti-fur movement has been largely successful in its efforts to force fashion houses to stop using skins, with almost every runway brand adopting fake fur as a fabric and eschewing the use of former luxury staples such as mink and sable.







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