Fashion designer Karl Lagerfield recently defended the fur industry saying; ‘it is justified as the beasts fur comes from would kill us if they could’.
Silly me, I wasn’t even aware that large primates were in a mink’s diet.
In seriousness though, he does have a point when he says; “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” I think that’s true, if you criticize someone for wearing fur & then order a steak dinner, you’re a hypocrite.
I also understand what he said about the media’s exaggeration of models being too skinny. If we’re saying that skinny women can’t be in the public eye because it might make 1% of girls too skinny. Then I am saying take all fat people off of television because it has made 30% of people too fat. And obesity is one of the greatest health crises of our time.
But still, ‘kill us if they could’, really?!
