Sunday, September 23, 2012

Fur bikinis? Brazil is new horizon for booming fur trade

PARIS, Sept 23, 2012 (AFP) - Fur on Copacabana beach? Why not. Boosted by a 10-year surge in sales to Asia, the global fur industry is primed to take on what it sees as the markets of tomorrow. US head of the fur international federation, Marc Oaten
Hobbled during the anti-fur 1980s and 1990s, the trade has rebounded as all but a few designers put fur back on the catwalks, and luxury-hungry China sent global sales surging 70 percent in a decade, to 15 billion dollars in 2011.
But Mark Oaten, a

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