Looking like a wax figurine straight out of Madame Tussauds, fashion designer Karl Legerfeld has gained the media’s attention with his inane remarks on fur in the fashion industry. “Fur? Oh fur, you know, as long as we wear leather and eat meat I don’t even discuss that,” he told the BBC in an interview. “Personally I don’t wear fur.”

Legerfeld then went on to reason that the hunters who produce fur “make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting, killing those beasts who would kill us if they could,” but that the “beasts” should be killed “nicely” if possible. Um, right. For someone who for so long as been at the forefront of fashion, this guy  has absolutely no clue about fur farms.

PETA, of course, ripped Legerfled’s comments saying, “Karl Lagerfeld is a fashion dinosaur who is as out of step as his furs are out of style. The vast majority of fur these days comes not from hunters as he suggests, but from Chinese fur farms, where no law protects the millions of animals who are routinely beaten and skinned alive,” adding, “Lagerfeld’s childish refusal to acknowledge the needless suffering behind every piece of fur and listen to public opinion means that he is being overtaken in the style stakes by an increasing number of designers who believe that cruelty has no place in fashion.”

via UK Telegraph

Categories: Animals, Fashion.

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