By LIZ JONES @ Dailymail.co.uk
Paris fashion press on Tuesday got a shock from Kanye West. The fashion writers, who hailed this Fall 2012 fashion show collection as ‘much improved’ and a ‘concise statement’ probably don’t even know what astrakhan. Kanye West used furs liberally in his designs. Let me tell you about this most ghastly of ‘fabrics’. Astrakhan is the fur of an unborn lamb. Yes, a foetus. The sheep is slaughtered, and the unborn lamb is ripped from her womb, its coat still curly and unformed. (Did you also know that lambswool is most commonly taken from the backs of just slaughtered lambs? What did you think they did: used a little pink comb?)
Ghastly: Astrakhan, the ‘fabric’ used to create the vest, left, is
made from the fetuses of lambs torn from their mother’s wombs. Kanye
West’s gratuitous use of fur in his fashion show was likely sponsored by
the U.S. fur industry, says Liz about Kanye West use of crocodile skin,
and fox fur for bags, back packs and huge arm warmers all presented in
the fashion show. Even his view of women fashion seems dubious and
strangely out of date, given so much skin tight leather, and bondage
whips presented in the fashion collection. And, while much is being made
at the moment about the fact fashion models work so hard for often so
little money (viz, the story that Marc Jacobs doesn’t always pay his
Paris runway models, given the prestige heaped upon them for wearing his
polka dot proms), I wonder why Arizona Muse, Vogue cover girl and one
of the world’s best paid mannequins, feels the need to wear so much
white fur to earn a another crust, which she surely doesn’t eat anyway.
Okay, so the reason the rapper used so much fur, so many fetishes, so
much ‘exotic’ skin (crocodiles routinely pole-axed, take many hours to
die)?
Surely she doesn’t need the money? Arizona Muse was draped in white fur at the Paris fashion show; while Jourdan Dunn, right, wore a dress trimmed at the top with crocodile – Read more…
