{"id":1524,"date":"2019-02-13T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:46:27","slug":"victoria-beckham-is-removing-exotic-animal-skins-from-her-upcoming-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/2019\/02\/13\/victoria-beckham-is-removing-exotic-animal-skins-from-her-upcoming-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beckham is removing exotic animal skins from her upcoming lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Beckham has already ensures that there is no animal fur in any of her fashion collections but now she is gone one step further and has promised that exotic animal skins are set to be banned from her lines as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a statement, the brand confirmed,<\/strong> &#8220;Victoria Beckham will cease the use of exotic skins in all collections as of AW19. The Victoria Beckham brand has never used fur in its clothing or accessories collections and confirmed last year that the brand will remain fur-free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news has been praised by\u00a0<strong>PETA\u00a0 director, Elisa Allen<\/strong>, who said: \u201c&#8221;Behind every crocodile, alligator, snake, or lizard handbag or pair of shoes is a violent death. Victoria Beckham&#8217;s decision to ban exotic skins will spare countless remarkable animals immense suffering, and PETA calls on other luxury brands to follow her kind example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made just days before her London Fashion Week show and is following many brands who are following anti-animal cruelty way. Chanel has plans to no longer use fur or exotic skins in further collections as well as\u00a0Diane Von Furstenberg and Vivienne Westwood have also j<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">oined the anti-cruelty movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PETA have praides all fashion brands who are doing this and say they are making a\u00a0&#8220;compassionate decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Beckham also announced that she is launching her own beauty line, she announced this via Instagram.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Btz-B0YAhA7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Btz-B0YAhA7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SO excited to announce that I will be launching Victoria Beckham Beauty later this year! Cannot wait to be able to share it with you!! Subscribe at the link in bio for exclusive news and updates. #VBBeauty x Kisses<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/victoriabeckham\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Victoria Beckham<\/a> (@victoriabeckham) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-02-13T06:32:48+00:00\">Feb 12, 2019 at 10:32pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fans of Victoria Beckham have praised and welcomed the news with open arms, many have expressed their excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Refinery29 UK back in September,<strong> Victoria said<\/strong>: \u2018We\u2019re going to launch a beauty brand as well, so I\u2019m going to be developing makeup, skincare and fragrance \u2013 that\u2019s something that I\u2019m very excited about.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t want to rush anything; I know, as a woman, what I want. It feels like the start of a new chapter.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>She added<\/strong>: \u2018Having brought on investors, an incredible chairman in Paris, our new offices and return to London, and now Paolo Riva coming on as CEO, it just feels like the start of the next 10 years.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Beckham has already ensures that there is no animal fur in any of her fashion collections but now she is gone one step further and has promised that exotic animal skins are set to be banned from her lines as well. In a statement, the brand confirmed, &#8220;Victoria Beckham will cease the use of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[266,265],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-victoria","tag-victoria-beckham"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/fashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}