I was in London last week (proof positive that bloggers do have real lives), and I picked up a copy of the newsweekly New Europe. On page 6, the British pop singer Sophie Ellis Bextor (of “Murder On The Dancefloor” fame) appears in a truly tasteless anti-fur ad from PETA. (Click here if you really want to see it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)
Weird thing number one: The ad dates back to 2002. What the heck is it doing running in 2008? Is PETA that hard-up for new spokesmodels?
Weird thing number two: In the same week PETA first unveiled the ad, Sophie happily attended the opening of a new Versace boutique in the Knightsbridge section of London.
Versace sells lots of fur.
PETA hates Versace so much that when PETA vice president Dan Mathews was asked a few years ago to nominate a “man of the year” for a gay men’s magazine, he chose Andrew Cunanan, “because he got Gianni Versace to stop using fur.” Cunanan was Versace’s murderer.
So Sophie did the anti-fur ad for PETA, and then presumably had to wade through PETA picketers just to attend the Versace opening. Asked about the apparent contradiction, here’s what she said:
“… I don’t have a complicated view about it. I don’t wear fur, but I don’t mind other people wearing it, or standing here in a shop that sells it at all.”
Just think — if all the other anti-fur celebrities were this dedicated to the cause, PETA could wipe out the fur industry by… well, by the time the sun goes supernova. And I’m so intrigued by the idea of PETA running the ad again more than five years later. It’s like, “If you keep pretending you hate fur, we’ll keep pretending you have a career.”
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Sophie Ellis who? PETA sure can pick ‘em.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is a bright girl, you can’t really blame her for having her own ideas about the game. Hey, at least she did the PETA ad in the first place! Why not rag on the rather large number of celebs who ignored the issue completely?
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It reminds me of the Anti-fur Ad Shirley Manson did for PETA, which made me really sad. I loved garbage, but I literally hate anything to do with PETA or Scientology, so I guess I can’t listen to Garbage without being pissed.
That’s why I love Amy Lee. She apparently pissed off PETA purposely. I’ve loved her since the fifth grade. XD
That ad isnt really accurate.
I’ve been a part time fur trapper for years, and just so you know, you cut all of the fur off of the head as well as the rest. The feet are pretty close to accurate, you leave the fur on the feet and bottom of the legs. We cut off the ears and nose and lips, all of the head all together in one piece with the body. Sometimes they get used I think, like shawls and stuff, but even on animals where the head doesnt get used most of the time for example: raccoon, beaver, muskrat, etc. You would still leave the head on. It makes stretching it much easier and more consistent. A headless pelt would get discounted very very hard at auction, and you’d be lucky to get 1/10th of is value with the head. Even though they dont use it, it shows that you dont know what you’re doing on your fur handling so they dont know what else might be wrong with it. Also it wouldnt be stretched in the right dimensions. If you look at the body of the fox, it has several gouges in it, as if it were stabbed or shot more than once. I dunno where they got this red fox from, but that wasnt done by someone who knew what they were doing…