Is Fashion industry solely responsible for the booming fur trade?

# The Paris Fashion Week 2007 showcased a wide variety of furs and skins from the top brands that turned out to be a hit.

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# The annual IFTF survey shows that fashion-savvy consumers invested a massive USD 13.49 billion in fur for their wardrobes in 2006.

# The animal-skinned accessories fashion is striding upwards and its demand is soaring, mainly in Europe and America with sales registering a 35 per cent increase, in a year.

# Many of the fur-bearing animals are strikingly on the extinction but fashion industry argues that furs are now extensively grown on fur-farms.