Sunday, August 29, 2004

What becomes a legend most? is the advertising slogan for Blackglama, the mink coat company that uses famous women as models. The latest Blackgama model is Cindy Crawford, who is known for being part of PETA's I'd rather go naked than wear fur campain.

Like Naomi Campbell before her, Crawford has accepted a long fur coat and a check in exchange for doing a world of good in the fight against animal cruelty. Most people do not want to be bothered with the horrendous facts about how fur coats (or hamburgers or cosmetics) are made. This willful ignorance is enough of a crime, but now someone who actually served as a spokeswoman for animal rights has decided to promote fur.

What is worse is that Crawford's spokespeople are saying that Crawford never supported the anti-fur campaign. What a pit of slime Crawford is in, to have to deny that she ever stood for a movement against torture and cruelty. Here's hoping she runs into Sophie Ellis Bextor really soon.

1 Comments:

You know, I already had a soft spot for Sophie. (I can't explain my liking of dance-pop from the british empire, it just is). Then again, how long in her career before she decides all that idealism isn't as important as a mink stole?

And fur isn't just gross, it's also really tacky and a symbol of elite power. More offensive to me than than the treatment of animals is the classism behind it.

By Blogger Campaign Staff, at 9:41 PM  

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