Top Designer Jean Paul Gaultier Ditches Fur - Calls It 'Absolutely Deplorable'
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org
FROM
Maria Chiorando,
PlantBasedNews.org
November 2018
"Fur today is as dead as the poor animals it was stolen from, and any designers not clued up enough to see that may as well hang up their sewing needles now."
Top designer Jean Paul Gaultier has announced he will ditch fur from all
future collections - saying the ways animals are killed for their fur are
'absolutely deplorable'.
Gaultier made the announcement on French television last night, according to
vegan charity PETA.
He joins Gucci, Versace, Galliano, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors,
Vivienne Westwood, and Stella McCartney among others in banning fur from his
collections.
Fur is dead
"The news comes after years of pressure from PETA, including a PETA member
being tossed out of his Fashion Week show in 2002 after causing a runway
ruckus with her anti-fur message, as well as takeover of his Paris boutique
in 2006 led by PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, and online activism against his
furry ways since then," a PETA Director of International Programmes Mimi
Bekhechi told Plant Based News.
"This decision is a sign of changed times, as most people no longer wish to
wear anything from animals who were cruelly caged, electrocuted, bludgeoned
to death or caught in steel traps, left to die slowly and painfully–the way
coyotes are still being killed for the trim on Canada Goose jackets.
"Fur today is as dead as the poor animals it was stolen from, and any
designers not clued up enough to see that may as well hang up their sewing
needles now."
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