AR-News: (AU) Love the skin you're in

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As London-based, but New York showing, designer Matthew Williamson, told the 
International Herald Tribune: "It's definitely cool to wear fur now. I see 
girls like Jade [Jagger] and Kate [Moss] who don't think it's un-PC any more." 

Inacio Ribeiro, of British label Clements Ribeiro, has also started using fur 
in his designs again, after being highly criticised for doing so in 1997. But 
it doesn't seem so very long ago that you were taking a physical risk to wear 
real fur in public, particularly in New York, where you would almost 
certainly be on the receiving end of verbal abuse, if not red paint, or at least 
ketchup.
Even fake fur opened you up to criticism, because the more extreme end of the 
anti-fur lobby believe it promotes the real thing.
It is from such quarters that the US Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, who has 
always been a champion of real fur - in her pages and on her shoulders - has been 
on the receiving end of a barrage of unpleasantness, including hate mail, 
threats and dead animals in the mail. Not that it had any effect. She has never 
stopped wearing and featuring fur.
 
Fur is back ... a model wears a creation as part of Missoni's autumn/winter 
2004-2005 women's collection during the Milan's fashion week. Photo: AFP 





full story: 

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/05/1078464651898.html 
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