This winter I have had the closest encounter with luxurious furs: coats, stoles purses; mink, alligator, rabbit.
An unpleasant experience that did upset me and felt that I had to write about it and scream out loud that IT IS NOT RIGHT! We have developed countless kinds of materials with warming properties for the winter. Why being pretentious and feel powerful over such beautiful creatures? After all, we invade their habitats and take advantage of their skins and hairs. How selfish is it?!
In this post I talk about unusual materials, fur and fashion.
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I’m not gonna lie, I’m not a vegetarian, but I avoid eating meat as much as I can. I know how animals are harvested in order for humans to be able to eat them, it’s a world of nameless cruelty. Aside of animals being harvested for food though, they are raised to fulfil human’s vanity.
Many years ago a big movement of animal rights started acting out on people wearing fur, throwing paint at them and ruining their coats, or showing up outside of fur stores with protest signs, repudiating the atrocities that take place towards animals, in order to get such precious skins and animal hair garments and accessories. There has been cases where activists have sabotaged fashion shows, infiltrating themselves in the runway with protest signs and paint.
Nowadays, a huge amount of people have opted for a more environmentally and cruelty conscious lifestyle, becoming vegetarians and even vegans…
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