12

Aug

Fur Flies Over Stella’s Skivvies

Our beloved Stella McCartney is rightly outraged over the misuse of one of her designs.  It seems a sheer black bra from Stella’s lingerie collection was used - without Stella’s permission, of course - in an ad for a fur boutique.

Stella, who is totally dedicated to her anti-fur and leather stance, only found out about the ad when she saw it in the latest issue of Vogue.  There it was:  one of her designs, partially covered by a ghastly mink coat and accessorised with a ghastly leather belt. Stella had lent the bra to a stylist for use in an editorial photo shoot, but the stylist “got mixed up” and used it for the advertisement instead, without seeking Stella’s permission.

When Stella saw the ad, she “hit the roof and said that she planned to sue.”  Good for her!  Stella doesn’t want to support the cruelty of the fur industry.

As for the fur boutique, they have already issued a “grovelling apology” and will not be using the ad again, which is quite a blow for them, considering that the ad would’ve cost £10,000 to shoot in the first place, and about £26,400 to place in Vogue!  That’s a lot of money for a boutique to lose, even for one that regularly peddles thousands of pounds worth of animal skins.

It’s nice that the boutique has apologized to Stella.  I don’t suppose there’s any chance that they’ll next apologize to the countless animals who are caged, electrocuted, and skinned alive in the name of “fashion”?

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18

Jun

Why Anna Wintour Doesn’t Deserve an OBE

So Anna Wintour, the fur-hag editor-in-chief of American Vogue is getting an OBE, huh? Apparently, she has been awarded in the Queen’s birthday list for her ‘service’ to British journalism and British fashion in the US.

Here’s why this decision is a bad one:

Anna Wintour is responsible for the unashamed flaunting of fur between the covers of Vogue. She must therefore share responsibility for the deaths of thousands of animals that are trapped, drowned or beaten to death in the wild, and gassed, strangled or electrocuted on fur farms. She has no excuse – PETA US has shown her footage of animals suffering for this so-called ‘fashion’, yet the pro-fur editorial continues.

Order of the British Empire? More like Order of the Bloody E… actually, you got me there. Comments welcome!

VogueSucks.com has more.

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