Leading the way on the fashion industry’s commitment to reducing its environmental footprint and adopting more humane practices, coming up next season and starting 2025 London Fashion Week (LFW) becomes the first major fashion event, and the first of the “big four”, to ban exotic skins from the runway. This means that brands hoping to showcase in LFW’s official fashion week schedule as of next year will need to commit to not use crocodile, snake, lizard, alligator or other wild animal leathers in their collections.

The UN’s annual Climate Change Conference (COP29) held in Baku, Azerbaijan between November 11 and 22 comes at a volatile moment for the fashion industry’s sustainability efforts. The progress the sector is making on reaching its climate commitments is currently under scrutiny as well as how close it is to meeting its overarching goal, in order to effectively tackle climate change within the set timeframe.