Animal welfare activists covered in body paint have protested against designers using animal skins at Australian Fashion Week.
The five peaceful demonstrators stood outside Sydney's Carriageworks holding signs reading "animal prints, not animal skins" and "animals are not ours to wear".
Spokeswoman Claire Fryer said representatives of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had asked Fashion Week organisers to ban fur at the event but they declined.
"Millions of animals are bludgeoned, anally electrocuted, skinned alive - just so people can wear their skins for fashion," she told AAP on Monday.
"We're asking the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival but also consumers to simply leave all animal skins off of clothing and choose cruelty-free alternatives."
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