Stella McCartney's Anti-Fur Video

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In this article fur designer Karl Lagerfeld makes

unfair statements against Stella McCartney. It sounds

like Karl is still angry that the Chloe fashion house

dumped him to bring on Stella!

 

http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,490058,00.html

 

 

Leather fashion gets a savaging from McCartney

 

Amelia Hill

Sunday May 13, 2001

The Observer

 

Stella McCartney, the darling of the fashion world

since she was offered her own label at Gucci, is to

take an unprecedented potshot at the industry that has

made her millions by condemning the use of leather and

fur on the catwalks.

 

A film being shot in London, which will be shown in

cinemas across Europe and America in October, will

star McCartney alongside footage that is expected to

shock audiences with its brutal depiction of animals

being killed for their skins.

 

News of the film, which is scathing about fashion

houses including Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Christian

Dior and McCartney's own, Gucci, emerged just weeks

after Gucci displayed their 2001 winter collection of

floor-length Mongolian fur coats and men's jacket

collars trimmed with fox fur in Milan.

 

McCartney has convinced a raft of celebrity friends,

including actors Jude Law and Sadie Frost, to appear

alongside her in the minute-long film. Geri Halliwell

and George Michael are also likely to donate their

services free.

 

McCartney, 29, last month jumped ship from her

£500,000-a-year job at Chloe in favour of the Gucci

fashion house, but has insisted that she will not

compromise on her refusal to work with leather and

fur.

 

Her stance forced Gucci, famous for its use of leather

and fur, to abandon efforts to persuade her to head

their womenswear line and to offer her the unique

chance to operate her own, leather-free independent

label under their auspices instead.

 

'Gucci is cynical enough not to care about this from a

business point of view,' said one insider. 'But

there's a question of respect here: if Stella is going

to bite the hand that feeds her too hard, she might

just find that hand eventually withdrawn.'

 

McCartney's involvement in the campaigning film has

incurred the wrath of her designer colleagues,

including Karl Lagerfeld, who was jettisoned by Chloe

in 1997 in favour of McCartney, then a fresh-faced

graduate from Central St Martins, after sales began to

slump.

 

'Oh please, how can she be in business with Gucci

while posturing in this overly dramatic way?' asked

Lagerfeld. 'It's grotesque. She has plenty of her own

money. If she finds their reliance on fur and leather

so objectionable, why does she take their money and

trade on their reputation to advance her own career?

 

'It's deeply hypocritical of her and she's making both

herself and Gucci look ridiculous,' he added.

'Everyone knows Gucci has made zillions of dollars by

working with leather. When she signed with them, she

closed the chapter as far as holding these sort of

scruples with any kind of credibility.'

 

The film is being made by Respect for Animals, the

campaigning group which last year won its 15-year

battle to ban fur farms in England and Wales and

condemned Prince William earlier this year for his

continued support for blood sports.

 

'We're enormously proud and excited about this

campaign,' said Mark Glover, of Respect for Animals, a

body funded from public donations. 'People think the

battle against fur is over in Britain, but it's

creeping back: keeping the pressure on is the only way

we can get rid of this horrible trade for good.

 

 

 

 

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