Aug 11 2008
Fur boutique uses unauthorized Stella McCartney lingerie in advert
If there is anything called vegetarian pedigree, fashion designer, strict vegetarian and animal rights supporter, Stella McCartney (pictured above), would have it. Her mother, Linda , who died in 1998, took vegetarian food to supermarket shelves in England long before it became mainstream (1991) and her father is, well, Paul McCartney, the most famous vegetarian in the world. Everyone knows how strongly opposed to the use of fur in clothes Stella is - she even featured in Peta’s video on the topic .
So, it comes as shocking lack of respect that Hockley, a London fur trader, used McCartney’s lingerie without her permission (not that she would give it anyway) for an advert that appeared on British Vogue. McCartney’s underwear pieces appeared on a model sporting a mink fur coat. Disgusting, really, but then what can you expect from people who make their money out of the torture and killing of animals for the sake of vanity?
According to a report in the British tabloid Daily Mail, Stella went completely “ballistic” over the “monumental cock-up” and is threatening to sue. The trader is said to have issued a “grovelling” apology.
I say: go for it, Stella. Sue the skin off them. Besides running an amoral business, Hockley obviously doesn’t even respect other people’s ethical principles.
