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Top Fashion School Cuts Ties With Fur Companies, Stressing Cruelty-Free Design

Parsons School of Design is done with fur. A top fashion school, Parsons School of Design in New York City, has cut ties with fur companies, opting instead to focus efforts on teaching “alternative methods to using animal products,” Yahoo Style has exclusively learned. To that end, Parsons has ended a nearly 15-year partnership with Finland-based Saga Furs, through which it had promoted career opportunities and fur-industry information, and is no longer continuing sponsorships with other compa