Her designs include clothes made from mink ... But the current revival is a story of the fur trade responding to its critics and often outmaneuvering them, combined with increased demand from ...

From the 17th century fur trade that birthed a nation to the last major department store in Canada, The Hudson's Bay Company ...

The fur trade has endangered many species and continues to use the skins of rare cats and canids for coats, hats and trim. Sea turtles—already imperiled by indiscriminate fisheries, pollution, habitat ...

The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

With the by-product of what we eat long respectable in the form of leather shoes or clothes ... fur industry is fighting back, encouraged, it seems, by consumers. According to the British Fur ...

"DuSable started the fur trade here in Chicago, so it's kind of bizarre to try to truly eliminate our livelihood," Brown said. Under the city ordinance, fur retailers in Chicago could no longer sell ...

The US-based private equity owners of the company, who acquired it in 2008, will also shutter three Saks Fifth Avenue and 13 Saks Off 5th locations. Hudson's Bay store in Montreal, seen here ...