Fashion Designer Karl Legerfeld Defends Fur, Makes Little Sense
PETA dubs him a dinosaur
Filed under: animals, fashion — Michael d'Estries @ 6:03 pm
January 4th 2009
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
His comments can’t be cruel enough… Unbelievable!
I can’t belive this guy, what has the leather trade meat to do with fur, they are separate issues. Skinning animals alive for fashion is sick. Fur is so out of date and this ignorance is also really out of date.
Planning a post on this tonight, so angry
He’s a turd. He wears fingerless gloves. He has a ponytail. Everything about him is egregiously wrong. He needs to have his smug, grotesque teeth slapped out.
I think that he is right and I think people are against fur for the wrong reasons, but mostly because they are misinformed.
Fur is a natural product and not all furs come from China: actually, the finest ones come from North America! And the trade is regulated by laws and incentives.
Check out http://www.FurIsGreen.com.
wearing fur is definitely NOT GREEN and the above senile lagerfeld jerk is snow from yesterday – rest in peace!
Give it up, Jackson. You are on the wrong website. No one here is going to buy your “fur is green” b.s. No matter how you try to spin it, there is no denying that fur is horrifically cruel and most of all COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY!
I think that PETA is just as bad as the people they protest. Barging into someone’s office, terrorizing their staff, and dumping paint on them? What desperate losers! I love Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace, and Marc Jacobs. They are artists! I wear my fox coat, mink wrist bands, rabbit scarf, and leather gloves with pride. Stella Mcartney isnt even a luxury brand designer and you treat her like royalty. I’d take Dolce and Gabbana anyday!
Mia the clueless moron…