Category: Fashion news

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to ban the manufacturing of all fur clothing and accessories within city limits. Los Angeles is now the largest city in the United States to ban the sale on fur. This marks one of the most significant efforts to restrict these sales anywhere in the world. The law may include certain exemptions, such as fur worn for religious reasons and furs of animals caught by California Fish and Game license holders.

Paul Kortez, a council member who introduced the motion, hopes that this will influence and inspire other major U.S. cities to follow in Los Angeles’s footsteps. “Los Angeles is one of the fashion capitals of the world, and if we can do it here, we can do it anywhere and hopefully we will be an example for the rest of the country and the rest of the world,” Koretz said at a news conference before the vote, reported NBC Los Angeles.

Fur-free trends seems to be appearing more and more in the fashion industry. Major clothing brands such as Gucci, Burberry, Versace, Yoox Net-a-Porter, and TJX have recently announced fur-free policies. P.J. Smith, a senior manager of fashion policy at the nonprofit HSUS, is amazed at the momentum that the fur-free movement has seen in recent years. “I’ve been doing this job for about 10 years, and if you would have told me just two years ago that Gucci, Versace, Burberry, InStyle magazine, London Fashion Week, Norway, the Netherlands, São Paulo would be going fur-free, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Smith told The New York Times on Tuesday. “But it’s happening.”

An uncomfortable and breathtaking trend that started in the 16^th Century has unexpectedly made its way back into fashion. Today, a waist trainer, known to some as a corset, is a latex undergarment that wraps tightly around one’s stomach to gradually form an hourglass figure. In 2015, this product came into Vogue when Kim Kardashian and her sisters were seen admiring the waist trainer on Instagram. These trainers are being used as weight loss aids due to the fact that they make you feel fuller faster and compress your midsection so much that you sweat while wearing it, causing you to burn unwanted calories. However, the waist trainer is riding on thin ice when it comes to comfort and fashion.

There are many mixed emotions about this new fashion and weight loss trend. Kate Proud, a small business owner in Australia said that after only 20 minutes of wearing the trainer she felt “very hot” and “like my internal organs were being squashed together.” However, Stephanie Rodriguez states that her trainer is like a “second skin.” After at first doubting this trend, the 34-year-old Chicago administrative assistant says that it is helping her improve her posture and reduce stomach fat.

Steve Ball, professor of exercise philosophy at the University of Missouri, says “in fitness, there is no quick fix.” He states that if the trainer is worn for extended periods of time, the constant external support can lead to weakness of the core ab muscles. Nevertheless, waist trainer companies, such as Hourglass Angel, state that those claims are unproven and blown out of proportion. Ruben Soto, president of Hourglass Angel, says that the many benefits of the waist trainer include a healthier posture, a thinner waist, feeling fuller faster, and a more confident and sexy feeling of the wearer.

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