LONDON, United Kingdom – For many of fashion’s iconic characters, from Vogue’s Anna Wintour to the prolific designer Karl Lagerfeld, who designs for Chanel, Fendi and his eponymous label, fashion and fur go hand in hand. Just last week, Lagerfeld vigorously defended the use of fur to the BBC saying that “in a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”
Of course, there are plenty of people who would disagree with this point of view – the folks at PETA, for one. A PETA spokesperson told London’s Daily Telegraph that 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.”
So, who’s right?
