From our ethical blog, Hippyshopper...
Aussie songbird Natalie Imbruglia has joined the campaign to stop using fur, by posing for a new advert for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She is the latest celeb to front the campaign, following in the footsteps of Eva Mendes, Shirley Manson, and Pamela Anderson. For the ad, Imbruglia is photographed nude holding a rabbit in front of her called Topsy. Speaking out on the issue, she says: "There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year."
Last week we reported how Kate Winslet rejected claims that her Vanity Fair shoot was airbrushed. Now, the actress has been forced to deny that she knowingly wore fur in the photo-shoot, insisting that she thought the garment was fake. Posing provocatively in Agent Provocateur stockings, YSL heels and an £11,500 silver fox fur throw, Winslet has admitted that she was misled into wearing the fur.
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Ardent airbrush resister Kate Winslet has slammed claims that she was digitally enhanced for her Vanity Fair photo-shoot. The actress appears on the cover and inside the December issue of the magazine, where she channels Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour. Her rep told People: "Kate is furious at suggestions that her body has been airbrushed. She is in terrific shape and what you see is how she looks or she would never have agreed to pose for those shots."
To see more from the shoot, read on...
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Pixie Geldof is lending her face to a new campaign to raise awareness of illegal human trafficking. The model has teamed up with Katherine Hamnett to draw attention to this worldwide problem by promoting a slogan t-shirt designed by Hamnett. "Every year 2.5 million people are trafficked globally, and many women my age and younger are forced into the sex trade. It's time we open our eyes to the situation. This is real and it has to stop!" Pixie said.
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Kimberley Foster writes...
As you can probably imagine, after reading on Monday about Vogue India's senseless decision to recruit a group of impoverished people, including children, and dress them in Hermès and Burberry for a glossy photo-shoot, I like many of you, have been left pretty freaked out.
While frighteningly this isn't the first time a fashion magazine has forgotten itself all for the sake of 'art', or if you like, publicity (see our story on this Chinese magazine) these images are arguably some of the most alarming to be published. Particularly this shot of a young child (left) in the arms of a toothless woman, wearing a bib designed by Fendi, worth about $100. Considering the average Indian person lives on less than $1.25 a day, congratulations should go out to Vogue India for reducing fashion to an all-time low.
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London Fashion Week could face yet another blow, after Mayor Boris Johnson was asked to withdraw funding following the British Fashion Council's decision to change its strategy over 'size zero'.
Dee Doocey, a Liberal Democrat London assembly member, has urged Johnson to pull funding after the BFC was forced to abandon its plans for models to undergo health checks, due to a lack of international support.
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Kimberley Foster writes...
In these fast-fashion times that we live in, we are being urged to stop buying and to start mending. Yesterday, the House of Lords published a report, attacking our spending habits, as well as the British fashion industry for spawning what it calls a 'throwaway society'. Instead, peers on the Science and Technology Committee, have asked us to return to the days of post-war thriftiness, in a bid to reduce consumer waste.
While I am all for recycling clothes before they are even slightly considered bin-worthy, I am suddenly confused. What exactly is the year again? 1938 or 2008?
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