Rick Owens and its parent company Owenscorp confirmed in mid-December 2025 that fur is finished at the label: mink and beaver handbags came off the brand's online store, and its own Eco Aware statement now rules out fur production going forward, following a five-day campaign by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT).
That kind of shift is exactly what this record of independent houses exists to track — not the runway moment, but the restocks, closures, and material calls that quietly change what a label actually is. For a house built on raw hide, distressed leather, and a decade of working its supply chain out loud, a fur ban reads less like a reversal than an overdue line item — but it is now a dated one, on the public record.
What happened, in order
CAFT's own account of the campaign lays out a tight five-day timeline:
- December 10, 2025 — CAFT activists open the campaign, confronting Owenscorp CEO Daniela Soto Beltran in New York and designer and longtime collaborator Tyrone Dylan at Los Angeles International Airport's Air France lounge.
- December 15, 2025 — CAFT announces the label's commitment: fur is discontinued across future collections, and mink and beaver handbags are pulled from the Rick Owens online store.
Fashion trade coverage, via Fashionista, picked up the news the next day, reporting the same removals and the label's addition of fur-free language to its Eco Aware page.
Why it moved this fast, according to the record
CAFT's account credits direct pressure, not a scheduled announcement. Executive Director Suzie Stork framed the outcome bluntly: "Fashion leaders can either evolve or fall behind. Rick Owens chose to evolve." The coalition lists the Owenscorp reversal alongside earlier campaigns it says moved Condé Nast, New York Fashion Week, and Marc Jacobs — a pattern of activist targeting that predates this particular label by years.
Owenscorp's own statement, as CAFT documents it, reads in full: "Over the past decade, we reduced and eventually ceased the production of fur. We will not engage in fur production in the future." Trade reporting on the same statement quoted the company adding that it intends "to continue to work towards further sustainable practices each season," while acknowledging it still has "a ways to go."
Elsewhere in the label's current run
The fur exit lands in the same season as business as usual elsewhere in the house: Rick Owens and Dr. Martens revived their long-running footwear partnership on October 16, 2025, with a capsule built around the 1460 Megalace, 1B60 Pentalace, and a steel-toe boot, sold through both brands' own sites. Read together, the two moves sketch a label doing what independent houses of this scale generally do — running collaborations and cleaning up sourcing on separate, unglamorous tracks, with neither framed as a campaign of its own.
Dark Fashion Week does not organize, host, or sell access to any show or label activity described here; this account is drawn entirely from the coalition's own campaign documentation and subsequent trade reporting.
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