{"id":350978,"date":"2026-09-19T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350978\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:26:09","slug":"new-york-fashion-chief-quits-after-physical-clash-with-peta-activists-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350978\/","title":{"rendered":"New York fashion chief quits after physical clash with Peta activists goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The long-time chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced he was stepping down, days after he was filmed physically restraining two protesters during an altercation at a New York runway show.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI am enormously proud of what we have built together and believe this is the right moment for both me and the organisation to begin a new chapter,\u201d Steven Kolb said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kolb is stepping down after two decades leading the council, which is known as the fashion industry\u2019s main trade organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-time chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced he was stepping down,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131124,8394,841,80636,28925,129582,32541,131072,9,11,10,19115,57389,4764,130409,14914],"class_list":["post-350978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-andrija-barak","tag-animal-rights","tag-cos","tag-council-of-fashion-designers-of-america","tag-hm","tag-mason-melito","tag-michael-kors","tag-moira-colley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-peta","tag-ralph-lauren","tag-reuters","tag-steven-kolb","tag-thom-browne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}