Antispecist group Nemesi Animale steals the spotlight at Milano Fashion Week

On the 26th of February two activists from the Italian antispecist group called Nemesi Animale have managed to break into a Byblos fashion show disrupting the catwalk and attracting attention over animal exploitation at the last Milano Fashion Week.

Nemesi Animale draws attention to animals tortured and killed by the fur and fashion industry (clicking on the pic will take you to their photo reportage of the demo)

The two Italian activists have walked the whole length of the catwalk holding up two banners saying “Leather and Fur are Torture”. The girls were taken away by the security under the flashes of hundreads of photographers who gathered to report over the Byblos fashion show but who bargained for that little extra. On their webpage Nemesi Animale states that the action was not carried out against Byblos but to emphasize the suffering of millions of animals killed and tortured every year in name of fashion. Nemesi Animale is an Italian antispecist group that aims to spread a vegan lifestyle and fight against animal slavery.

On the 25th of February the same group staged a demo at an Armani’s shows bringing the dead bodies of rabbits taken from the intensive farming of Lombardia and presented as “Victims of Armani’s fashion”. Armani is another designer who despite the pledge to go fur free few years ago but has recently turned his back and started to use dead animals’ coats in his recent collections.

The name of the group takes inspiration from Nemesis, “the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to ignorance. The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge based on merits and justice. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν [némein], meaning “to give what is due” [Wikipedia].

Filed under: activism, anti-fur, antispecism, Milano Fashion Week, Nemesi Animale

Lagerfeld learns to go fur free

Has the Gran Master of high luxury learnt the lesson finally? Karl Lagarfeld chooses fake fur for his Chanel collection justifying it as it’s”modern and given you have to go with the times, now it’s the moment”. Whatever the reason, less fur on the runaway is a good sign. The difference between fake fur and real fur is nowadays so unperceivable that only brainless cruel people decide to wear it. Choose compassion, go fur (and leather) free.

Filed under: anti-fur, Karl Lagerfeld

West Hollywood bans fur

West Hollywood is the first city in USA to ban the selling of fur in fashion.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Flos_angeles&id=8360921 After the Oslo Fashion week that last year decided to go fur free, now it’s Hollywood accepting the challenge of a more compassionate fashion.

No Fur

The decision is surely goning to piss off a lot of people especially in that fringe of the fashion industry that still believes you need to kill, torture ans steal animals’ skin to look gorgeous. Anna Wintour and other witches: get a life, you are so out, move on and leave your thrones, on with the new, stylish and compassion kings and queens of fashion.

Filed under: animal rights, anti-fur

Oslo Fashion Week says no to fur

Of all the countries on the face of earth who would have thought Norway would be the first one to ban fur from its catwalks? Thank to the work of Mote Mot Pels (Fashion Against Fur), an organization endorsed by more than 220 Norwegian fashion industry insiders, cool Norwegian designers are now refusing to work with fur. Oslo Fashion Week is one step closer to be cooler than ever.

Mote Mot Pels was funded by the designers Farm Irvoll and Kjell Nordström along with fashion editor Hilde Marstrander in collaboration with the animal-rights group NOAH.

Shame for Denmark, who instead is still endorsing the exploitation of animals at the Copenhagen Fashion Week, considering death, suffering and torture part of the fashion process.

Filed under: anti-fur, Mote Mot Pels, Norway