When will you fail to amaze us with your questionable choices? We realize that Kate Bosworth and Zhang Ziyi recently attended some sort of soiree in China and perhaps there are some deviating cultural norms at play here but seriously, what is that Chinchilla? Did you not notice that Ms. Ziyi looks like she's actually holding the dead animal she just skinned to fashion this garment? Ms. Bosworth looks like a late edition Cruella De Vil and if one wants to model themselves after a Disney character, we suggest Esmeralda, she really knew how to work the peasant blouse trend.We're not really politically anti-fur here, we just think it looks gross 9 out of 10 times. Take for example Britney Spears. Does she not look like she skinned her little dog Bit-Bit and is wearing her as a shrug.
Perhaps there's ways to wear fur, in fact, there are certain people who may be able pull it off:
1. Sarah Jessica Parker circa SATC seasons 1 and 2 because there was a time when she could pull off that sense of whimsical risk taking.
2. Nicole Kidman because she's just regal and Nordic-looking enough to accessorize a fur coat with a nice viking helmet.
3. Mary Kate Olsen because the poor little thing looks just about cold enough to drape anything over her bony little shoulders.
Aside from the above mentioned we ask you to please refrain from this growing and disturbing use of fur.
Yours truly,
The Aesthetes
5 comments:
Truely the only ones who can 'pull off' wearing fur are the animals themselves. Remember, ever fur coat has a story. That story reeks of fear, pain, blood, and death.
Liz Jones, the UK's Daily Mail fashion columnist, has written another strong anti-fur piece, headed, "Fur is back...and the fashion industry should hang its head in shame."
She writes about the difficulty of finding anything not covered or trimmed in fur at designer stores such as Prada. She tells us her friends are wearing, though some wear only vintage. And she writes, "Vintage is, when it comes to ethics, no defence. Although the animal has long been dead, wearing the coat still gives off the message that fur is beautiful, and acceptable."
She wonders, "how on earth did British women become so, well, cruel?"
She notes the many celebrities who are now wearing it -- Kate Moss for example. One buyer for a large chain says, "Fur is such a luxury. It's opulent, it feels nice to wear. Ooh, and Kate Moss wearing it definitely helps."
On Beyoncé's fur wardrobe Jones comments, "Perhaps Beyoncé should remember the words of the powerful black author Alice Walker: 'The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans, any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.'
She mentions PETA's video of a fox being skinned alive, writing, "you can see the fox blinking and looking around in shock after it has been reduced to a bloody pulp."
She continues:
"Let's look at the grisly facts of fur. Although every time I write an anti-fur piece I receive an admonishing letter from the British Fur Trade Association, it should be remembered that fox and mink and rabbit are, by nature, wild, shy creatures that become incredibly stressed in cages. Another horrible fact: more than two million cats and dogs are killed for their fur in China every year. Some still have their collars on when they are slaughtered — meaning they were once much-loved pets."
In China, many of the animals are still alive when the workers hang them up by their hind legs to skin them. Cats are strangled within their cages while other cats look on, and dogs asphyxiated with metal wires. With no animal welfare considerations, the pelts produced are so cheap that China is now the biggest exporter of fur in the world.
"Recent talk of an EU ban on dog and cat fur is a positive step, but it is impossible to DNA test every fur item that comes into Europe, and these fur products are not labelled as real fur at all." (Note: The US has a ban on dog and cat fur but coats are not widely DNA tested. On Larry King Live late last year campaigners talked of being given tours of Chinese dog fur farms and being told that the producers are happy to put any label on anything.)
Jones gives the last word to designer Stella McCartney, "For me, it is a principle. I just don't understand why these beautiful creatures have to die for someone's coat. It is both medieval and barbaric, and I think there are plenty of alternatives out there. Comfy? Warm? The very idea leaves me cold."
You'll find the whole article on line at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=419557&in_page_id=1879&in_a_source=
OR
http://tinyurl.com/yguuha
There is nothing elegant or "edgy" about wearing the skin of an anally electrocuted rodent.
There is nothing "cool" about injecting small mammals in the heart with poison to have seizures and slowly die in agony so somebody who screams about "hos" can wrap the skin around his/her pinhead.
There is nothing "cute" about anorexic billionaires that swathe themselves in fur from raccoon dogs that have been skinned alive in China.
It's not fashion, it's cruelty and stupidity. Fools that wear fur are prey to advertisers. Designers that use animal pelts are prey to the exploitive corporations they serve. Free yourselves, people. Reject fur and fur trim.
Frankly I don't think any human being looks good in dead animal's skins. If they want to make a statement they should just go bare as PETA's models do.
ick.
i wonder if Bos realized that she was wearing a bunch of skunks?
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