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Vivian Westwood's sustainability efforts are commendable, but her animal rating falls short. While she has a formal animal welfare policy aligned with Five Freedoms, she still uses leather, down, and exotic animal hair. The policy to source wool from non-molested sheep lacks evidence of implementation. She does not use fair exotic animal skin or angora, but does use some animal cruelty-free and vegan fabrics. To improve sustainability, she could consider using fake leather. However, this may affect her high pricing. Some materials she uses may also come from places where animal testing is required, contradicting her sustainability efforts. So, Lucy, what are your opinions on Vivian Westwood? Her sustainability is a start. However, her animal rating is not good enough. Vivian Westwood has a formal animal welfare policy aligned with Five Freedoms and has clear mechanisms to implement. It uses leather, down and exotic animal hair. It has a policy to source wool from non-molested sheep, but does not provide evidence on how it is implemented. It does not use fair exotic animal skin or angora. She does use some animal cruelty-free and vegan fabrics, but she still uses leather, which is one of the main fabrics that has cruelty to animals, because obviously it's from cows. So if she wanted to improve her sustainability, she could maybe use fake leather in her products. I agree with that, but you also have to think about, because Vivian Westwood is a really famous designer, she's obviously going to be selling her items for a very high price. So if you're using fake leather, you should have to down her prices. Well, there's a reason why her pricing is so high, if you get me. But I also believe with Vivian Westwood and her being sustainable, that maybe she should have the fake leather instead of using real leather. But I also believe that there are some materials that she's been using that may have come from places where they need to be tested on animals, therefore it wouldn't make her sustainable. Because there are laws in some places that say that you can't sell anything without testing it before on animals.