Archive for the 'PETA' Category

Animals are our friends, and Stella McCartney and Vivienne Westwood know this well.

That’s why PETA honored the two ladies at their first ever Vegan Fashion Awards.

Stella won an award for the Most Stylish Women’s Shoes while Vivienne nabbed Most Stylish Handbag.

Congrats, you two!

Maybe Stella and Vivenne will be Anne Hathaway's new favorite designers since she loves her animal-friendly fashion!

[Image via Craig Harris/Will Alexander/WENN.]

Carine Roitfeld may not see herself as a beauty, but to her legions of groupies she's a style icon!

So we're sure they'll be delighted to hear the 58 year old stylist and CR Fashion Book editor recently sat down with Allure and opened up on fashion and her own personal style.

Here are some HIGHlights:

Being around Marc Jacobs will make you hate fur!

The designer’s ex-boy toy, Austin Armacost, shot an anti-fur ad for PETA, that's meant to target gays in the fashion industry.

The ad, which will debut to coincide with Fashion Week, shows the A-List star walking down a runway in his birthday suit

It's just like old times!

PETA is using The Row's $16,900 fur backpack to relaunch their campaign against the Olsen Twins, or as they like to call them, the Trollsens.

After seeing pictures of the multi-patchwork fur backpack, the animal rights group expressed their disapproval by releasing a statement:

"If it looks like a troll and acts like a troll, it's probably a Trollsen Twin—or someone wearing one of their new $16,000 totes, which are made from the fur and skins of innocent animals. What the Olsens lack in creativity, they try to make up for in shock value. Sadly, it's the foxes, calves, and alligators—who often have the fur ripped off them while they are still conscious and able to feel pain—who pay the dearest price."

It sounds like PETA just wanted an excuse to call them the Trollsens again. We haven't heard that name in forever!

Thoughts???

[Image via The Row.]

Say it ain’t so Urban Decay!

The makeup company has made a huge deal out of the fact that their products are cruelty free, even putting the slogan “We don’t do animal testing. How could anyone?” on everything they sell.

Well, now Urban Decay wants to move into the very lucrative Chinese beauty market, but there’s a problem. The Chinese government must run their own tests on products sold in the country, and they utilize animal testing.

The company posted a statement on their Facebook saying

Designers certainly are getting creative with their materials these days!

After researching what fashion would look like in 50 years and chatting with a biologist about growing a garment, London-based designer Suzanne Lee has come up with a completely biodegradable fabric called vegetable leather.

The fabric is made out of green tea, sugar, bacteria and yeast and takes about two weeks to grow. Once the process is completed, the "fabric" can be moulded, dried, cut and sewn to be used like any other fabric.

The only downside is the fabric will eventually harden or even rot after 5 years, but according to Lee "you can compost it down with all your other vegetable peelings."

Awesome! A little gross, but still awesome.

Check out the process (above) and let us know what U think!

Time to go fishing for a new pair of shoes?

RayFish Footwear is getting ready to launch a range of customizable shoes made from genetically engineered stingray skin! EEK!

If you think that's weird, you haven't heard the best part!

Sneaker freaks will be able to select their very own design online from 29 patterns that scientists will then grow directly on a stingray before it's slaughtered and skinned to make a pair of $1800 shoes.