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Anti-fur catwalk takeover in London

 
 
Naked Flame
11:47 / 20.02.03
Last night, PETA crashed a Julien MacDonald fashion show with an anti-fur demo. Coverage here and here.

One thing that seems to be a concern is the co-opting of the anti-fur protest by the designer- he's talking about it as 'great publicity' and so on.

Whaddya think? are protests like this one worthwhile? should AR activists be going with more disruptive tactics to totally bury these shows? or leaving them alone, because it 'only encourages them?'
 
 
Char Aina
17:07 / 20.02.03
the part that worried me was when he justified it by saying that all his furs come from the meat industry. i wondered what call there is for mink in restaurants, and how many people would consider 'cowfur' an attractive marterial for a scarf... leather, shurely?

this apart from the fact that he bases his defence on a precedent i dont necessarily agree with, that it is right and fair to eat animals.
 
 
Naked Flame
06:42 / 21.02.03
Just to clarify that one- he did use mink in the collection, so he was pulling a fast one with that interviewer. And rabbit furs are worth much more than rabbit meat- the meat is a byproduct of the fur industry, and not vice versa...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:03 / 21.02.03
I think in this day and age you have to be very careful not to get co-opted- not to come across as either i) an ironic setup, or ii) lending the whole thing a "cool" outlaw aura.

Personally, I'd pile in mob-handed and kill the lot of 'em. And then skin them. Yeah.

...but I haven't had my medication yet this morning.

It is a tricky one- I guess, though, PETA are well-enough known that their intentions would be clear to all but the thickest fashionista... oh, hold on a minute.

If you did it anonymously the risk of misinterpretation would be far greater.
 
  
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