September 20th 2008
Giorgio Armani Double-Crosses PETA, Prepares For Counter-Offensive
Oh, no you didn't.
Filed under: animals, fashion — Michael Andre d'Estries @ 5:29 pm
The first rule of fight club is, there is no fight club. The second, though less well-known rule, is never double-cross PETA. It’s one thing to end up on their shit list in the first place — but to make them a promise one moment — championing yourself as defender of animals — and then completely give them the finger the next is not wise. At the very least, it will lead to half-naked women dressed in only lettuce parading outside your stores; which, depending on your point of view, may or may not be bad for business.
Such is the dliemma now faced by fashion icon Giorgio Armani who, despire last summer promising the animal rights organization to never use fur in his collections again, has gone ahead and released a fall line stuffed with pelts. From Page Six,
“Last year, Giorgio Armani told Time that PETA had persuaded him to drop fur from his designs, but his fall line includes fur coats for babies, floral-printed fur coats, fur-hemmed skirts and fur-trimmed jackets. “We feel betrayed. I have met with Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and many other designers who once used fur but had a change of heart, and not one of them broke their promise,” PETA President Dan Mathews said.”
Fur coats for babies? WTF?
And what happens when you break your promise? PETA sends Pamela Anderson to lead the counter-offensive. Matthew said “Anderson would reveal plans at a PETA benefit tomorrow in Italy to put ’stars who attend Armani shows in the hot seat’ and urge them to shun all Armani designs during the upcoming award season.”
BOO-YA! More to come…
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another schizofrenia monster: please go to have a look at: amoglianimali.com where he is promoting animal protection. i don’t know if these people are so stupid or playing the fool? really i don’t understand this…
[...] Via ecorazzi [...]
i hate when bull like this happens. My BF buys AX stuff all the time but won’t anymore cause of this.
I have to make sure to let my AR group know too, so we can hit them on our fur protests too!
You know, I have long stopped having faith in humankind because of people like this one and so many others!
Humans are the cruellest, most sadistic and arrogant species on this planet…
Ultimately, our ignorance and ‘zombified’ attitude will destroy us all! Probably sooner than people might think!
This isn’t an apocalyptical or a religious based statement! I just look around me and see what’s happening…
Things are getting out of control…
one of the worst things (I believe) is going back on your word. ESPECIALLY when it’s about using dead animal fur on coats and stuff. especially for babies. he is a sick ugly over tanned loser and I swear I used to model Armani (when he wasn’t using fur) I love to wear Armani (fits me best especially their suits) BUT NEVER AGAIN!
Hey Giorgio. I got news for you. Versace used fur. And look what happened to him (and who knows with his ugly Donetalla pig relative) he was SHOT dead (kind of the like the animals you kill) I am non violent and have never hurt anyone but I don’t know about some of those anti animal fur people out there Giorgio. If I were you I’d value my life more than dead fur for sale.
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What a prize jerk. And fur coats for babies? If it weren’t for high heels for babies, I’d say that takes the cake. Now toadlers and babies can be dressed up just like their vacuous mommies.
hey giorgio - torturare e uccidere animali per farne pellicce non è di moda!
[...] I never thought I’d write the words “Martha Stewart” and “big, long wiener” in the same sentence, but I also never thought Giorgio Armani would double-cross PETA. [...]
[...] here for the full [...]
[...] In their new offensive against Giorgio Armani, PETA has managed to recruit another Anderson to help lead the charge. X-Files star Gillian Anderson met PETA vice-president Dan Mathews in NYC yesterday, a day after he flew back from Milan having visited Armani executives. Apparently, the actress walked away from the meeting having agreed to narrate a video of undercover footage taken inside rabbit fur farms. [...]
[...] as fashionable as any other fashion enterprise with a gossip site. Check out the posting about how Giorgio Armani “double-crossed” PETA by reneging on a pledge to forever shun fur and now they have apparently enlisted Pamela Anderson [...]
[...] Ecorazzi previously reported, Georgio Armani seriously pissed off PETA (and pretty much every other animal-respecting person) [...]
[...] might have already learned from Ecorazzi that Armani has double-crossed PETA in its past pledge to go fur-free. In a huge “Oh no you didn’t!” measure, PETA [...]
[...] might have already learned from Ecorazzi that Armani has double-crossed PETA in its past pledge to go fur-free. In a huge “Oh no you didn’t!” measure, PETA [...]
[...] after he publicly declared he’d no longer use fur. Then, in the cruelest move of the season, Armani released a new line that included fur coats for babies, floral-printed fur coats, fur-hemmed skirts and [...]
[...] Since backing out of a promise to never use fur again in any of his collections, designer Giorgio Armani has been the focus of a particularly intense PR campaign by PETA. Stars such as Gillian Anderson and Pamela Anderson have vocally decried the move — and the animal rights org has even taken a full-page ad out in this week’s Variety labeling Armani as a “Pinocchio” liar. [...]