It seems that after every global recession there is a massive rise in the amount of fur on the runways. I guess it's the luxurious exclusiveness of it all after a year of saving and watching your money. But with this fantastical event comes the whole motley crew protesting against the use of fur. Sure if you're a vegan go ahead and express your beliefs, but just do it with dignity.
What annoys me is the isolated way that people look at fur in fashion. They say its cruel to animals. Well yes of course killing anything for the sake of vanity is ridiculous. But barely anyone says anything about the exorbitant amount of leather used in the industry. I mean leather is just fur without the hair! It's the same thing with whaling vs. the traditional dolphin killing in Denmark. Everyone gets wound up about one aspect of the issue when their are other aspects that could be worse being ignored. Maybe more people are more against fur than leather because it's easier to harass a bunch of rich fashion people than a bikey gang. So no, if you won't wear fur, then you may not wear a new season Celine lamb skin jacket.
I was given a real Zebra skin by one of my Mum's arty friends, with the idea I would make something cool out of the saveable bits as it was falling apart. I was quite excited at the idea of being able to make a zebra jacket with the mane down the back. But as I predicted my friends did not share the happiness for my new found vintage treasure. They just gasped and looked a little confused and worried for my sanity. Then I asked them if they had a leather sofa and they said yes. But alas they did not connect this to the fact that the one zebra from which my skin came from was humanely killed a very long time ago and has since then been used through generations, and instead of the zebras life going to waste I recycled something that would otherwise be at the dump. Whereas their new sofas took many cows that were most likely killed inhumanely knowing the specific industry they came from. Sure I would never have bought it first hand, but then again I guess that is the sentimental side of me talking. The side that wouldn't eat a dog or a hamster, but would devour roast beef any day.
Really they should invent a term for being well, racist to different animals. They'll call it... specist, oooOOOoooo. It will apply to people who are vegetarians but still eat fish. They are specist because they cannot commit to giving up smoked salmon. Or say if you like dogs but you wouldn't eat a dog and you like cows but you would eat a cow. (i.e me, i.e damn this argument) This is actually quite specist because cows are lovely animals who don't deserve to be the source for the majority of meat and leather supplies for humans. If you are a dedicated vegetarian but you wear a leather jacket, have a leather couch and are not kind to the environment that is needed for the survival of animals, well you're a specist. A deadly mental condition relating to general ignorance and err... human nature. In my opinion it is almost pointless to be a vegetarian if you're going to use leather and plastic bags as well. Either you go all out and support the fact that 'you just couldn't bear to hurt animals' by becoming a devout vegan.
Stella Mccartney does not use leather or fur in any of her collections. She's an animal rights activist and a vegetarian so this all makes sense I guess. But really fake leather, vinyl, could be just as harmful to the environment as the use of cow skins. The amount of pollution that creating vinyl makes could contribute a lot to global warming and therefore hurt animals on a global scale. Then there are all those chemical pesticides used on cotton farms, chemical pesticides that kill a lot of wild life in the process. Then of course humans are animals too. You obviously couldn't buy anything produced in sweat shops if you were vegetarian. Then there's wooden jewellery and wooden heels on shoes that take away the homes of animals in the wild. And many beauty products that contain ingredients like palm oil. An oil found in trees, the habitat of the endangered orangutan. So basically if you're going vegetarian (and therefore vegan in my opinion) you will not be able to wear anything without harming the planet in some way. And obviously you can't do that unless you live in Canada (hahahahaha oh you're Canadian? well when when I said if you can't wear well what I mean is Canada is well...) Or, you can do the more natural thing that I think is probably best for the environment, eat a bit of red meat but not a lot, wear a bit of leather or fur if you really want to and just be nice to the environment.
I guess then if you wouldn't kill a cow you shouldn't eat a cow. But then everyone might starve because at McDonald's everything has meat in it (everything...). Then almost everyone would be dead except for phsycopaths and serial killers. No I am not depressed.
But now I am.
You're wearing a sheepskin hat
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