Fur flies: Top designers lead fightback - News, Fashion. Activists, emboldened by a pledge extracted from the designer Donna Karan to stop using fur after they labelled her a "bunny butcher", have now widened their range of targets.
As well as leading designers, fur-wearing celebrities have been singled out for "shame attacks". The actor Gwyneth Paltrow; model turned businesswoman Liz Hurley and the Welsh classical singer Katherine Jenkins are all the focus of vociferous protests led by the campaign group Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Despite the early success of the campaign, it is now running into determined opposition from many of the industry's most illustrious designers. The French designer Jean Paul Gaultier last night refused to stop using fur.
"He has always used fur for his creations and he will continue to do so," a spokesman said. Peta's latest target is Giorgio Armani, citing the rabbit-trimmed jackets and fur-hemmed skirts in his autumn 2008 collections. Campaigners resolved to continue their campaign. Karl Lagerfeld defends fur industry saying 'beasts' would kill us if we didn't kill them.
The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has defended the fur industry saying it is justified because the "beasts" fur comes from would "kill us if they could.
" BY Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent | 02 January 2009 Karl Lagerfeld has likened the economic crisis to 'spring house-cleaning' Photo: AFP The Chanel supremo said it was "childish" to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal. German-born Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was "an industry who lives from that". Hunters in the north "make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting", he said, "killing those beasts who would kill us if they could. " Animals should be killed "nicely" if at all possible, said Lagerfeld, who admitted to being queasy about eating meat. "I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive," he said.
Fourrure. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Le terme fourrure désigne aussi bien le pelage d'un animal vivant que la peau garnie de son poil préparée afin d'être doublée, taillée et façonnée en vêtement, garniture ou accessoire de décoration. Par extension, ce terme désigne aussi le vêtement lui-même. Fur and against - Times Online.