Billionaire Tamara Ecclestone, the older daughter of Formula 1 racing legend Bernie Ecclestone, is the latest face of PETA’s anti-fur campaign in the UK. Which may not sound like a big deal because, well, billionaires must eventually get bored bathing in diamonds and playing pin-the-tail-on-the-butler. I mean, everyone needs a hobby.
Or maybe she did it just to piss off her 19-year-old sister Petra (not Peta), who is busy doing openings at Harrods. Which sells fur. And foie gras. Oh, the insanity of it all.
Tamara, as you might expect, has strong opinions about wearing dead animals. I think it’s supposed to be a prerequisite to joining PETA. Here she is, talking to The Sun:
“I enjoy going to fashion shows and I enjoy seeing what’s new and fantastic but I just don’t understand how fur is necessarily fashionable. I just think it’s terrible to harm living animals all in the name of vanity.”
After that she added a snark about how she’s not a rich snob because — and I’m not making this up — “Our jets don’t have bathrooms and my mother drove me to school in an Audi.”
Well, I certainly feel better about the vanity part. Now how about that part about harming living animals?
Just one question: Do cows still count? [ed: And what about foxes?]
Here she is, above, at the London launch party for ZooQoo.com on August 27. (Don’t ask. I don’t know what a ZooQoo is either.) The bag is a $3,000 leather Chanel “Jumbo Flap.” They don’t make ‘em in vinyl. And a female friend informs me that the shoes are $700 Christian Louboutin “Miss Marple” slingbacks in patent leather. Again, no “vegan” option available.
So there goes the whole “it’s terrible to harm living animals” schtick too.
Oh, yeah. And here’s a red-carpet photo of Tamara from November 30, 2006 at the London launch of Ermenegildo Zegna’s “Heritage” collection. Yep. That’s fur. A tiered fox and organza bolero, to be precise, according to a friend who knows way too much about these things.
“So what if she had a change of heart?” I hear you thinking. She wore that fur wrap 23 months ago. Fair enough. A billionaire has a right to change her mind.
But guess what happened this week when Giorgio Armani changed his mind about using rabbit fur in his designs? (Last year, no. This year, sì.) PETA went ape-shit and branded him a “Pinocchio.”
Starting to see through these loons? Me too.
well she is the UK response to Paris Hilton what can you expect of her?
Maybe the leathery goodies were GIVEN to her?
Or the new PETA ethics allow the use of leather if you dint killed it yourself…
PETA’s ok with leather and fur if:
* they are gifts.
* are worn by women fit enough to pose nude for them.
* are worn by poor African people who they likely feel are too insignificant to impact the opinions of the mainstream.
And people actually take them seriously?
Who is she? I’ve never seen her prior to this internet posting. Just another dumba__ pie hole who has as much significance in my world as my colon pushing flatulent gas after a beef brisquet dinner (with potatoes with garlic).
Sorry to reveal my carbon footprint.
i have no idea who she is either mr. sleepyhead but i loved your comment lol well deceiver.. it looks like we have another PETA tart who doesn’t know what she got herself into!
Maybe like Pammy Anderson she’ll realize in 8 years the Chanel bag and the Louboutins came from dead animals!
This PETA post make me want to eat a steak with chicken ceaser salad and a baked potato with lots of sour cream and bacon. Wait…F*ck the potato, just give me sour cream and bacon.
Maybe she can advise us to use energy saving bulbs at the next Singapore grand prix.
Just a thought.
Oh there she is! on some sites she wear nothing and rather go anked ..but here she wears cow’s skin!
Kiss/
Fendi
Aren’t those grand prix things where they circle around the track 26 times in high powered gas guzzling vehicles harmful to the environment? Ever think about THAT, Tamara? No?
Woah! Can we say that the “activists” of that world renowned, totally-unbiased group that knows everything from actually learning about it, operate under the saying “do as I say, don’t do as I do?” Jeez, if you are going to flaunt leather and dead animals across your shoulders then seriously don’t claim to be part of the biggest joke in the history of the world (PETA). Oh well, that’s rich people for you. Perhaps one day PETA members will pull their heads out from their anal orifices and realize just how unimportant and wrong they really are. GO MEAT!