WWD has been documenting the downfall of our economy, and all the fashion roadkill that’s gone with it. Today’s reported victim? Cashmere. According to their research, knitwear manufacturers are producing much less cashmere for Spring because it’s probably too expensive for most people right now. They say companies are trying to put out more wallet-friendly Read more →
This just in from out and about: Henri Bendel is going fur free! We’d expand a little more, but we’re about to be late to Alexander Wang’s show – Back soon!
Although we don’t know anything about fashion, we’d like to make a claim about Gareth Pugh’s ratty mink coat, as seen in the latest W: It’s the most subversive anti-fur protest we’ve ever seen, and as such, we think it’s brilliant. The coat plays on the classic fault lines of outsider and insider – the Read more →
We’re not comfortable wearing fur, or even faux fur, but we also really dislike (perhaps even despise) the immature and ultimately ineffective tactics at Peta. After realizing that dumping red paint on people is both grounds for a lawsuit and a violation of their own supposed belief that all living things (including people) deserve respect, Read more →
We’ve been trying to pinpoint the difference between wearing fake fur and wearing real fur. While we know it’s far more ethically responsible to don fake instead of real- after all, no animals would have been harmed in the making- part of us thinks it still makes the wearer guilty by association. Kind of like Read more →
