You just know Heather Mills’s blood would boil if she knew she were getting the same amount of press today as former stepdaughter Stella McCartney. The press is negative, but press is press.
Stella was on hand in Paris recently to unveil PETA’s newest gross ad campaign, “Stolen for Fashion.” The ad features an alligator and a rabbit confronting designers who used their skins to make accessories.
Ignoring for a moment that this commercial re-invigorated my lust for a Bottega Veneta croc bag (only in my dreams), is Stella McCartney really one to talk? For some reason Stella has for a long time been PETA’s darling, but let’s play a game I like to call Stella McCartney Massacres Silkworms For Money.
- On the same day as the PETA ad premiere, Stella debuted her fall 2009 collection at Paris Fashion Week including, according to Style.com, slipdresses made from “silk … spliced with tulle to create provocative peekaboo panels raying out from the midriff and down the legs.”
- If the time has come for you to relive MC Hammer’s glory days, the London Times recommends “Stella McCartney’s navy silk and cashmere harem pants with a drawstring waist and cuffed trouser legs.”
- Going for the trifecta, Stella also created this $1,275 jumpsuit from a blend of wool, silk, and cashmere. None of which grow out of the ground.
- Just to shoot fish in a barrel, a few of Stella’s offerings at Neiman Marcus: silk shantung blazer, $2,095; slub silk twill tulip skirt, $895; V-neck silk dress, $1,845. Screw it, her whole spring collection is made from probably millions of silkworms.
In case you’re wondering how many silkworms died in the service of Stella McCartney’s fashion line, the Guardian estimates that it takes 2,600 cocoons to make one pound of silk. One worm per cocoon. Thousands of dresses in hundreds of stores worldwide. You do the math.
What I can’t figure out is why does PETA give her a pass? It isn’t that PETA doesn’t care about silkworms; they assuredly do, with the same kind of vehemence they reserve for mammals. It’s that they think you won’t notice.
Or maybe PETA ha$ $ome other rea$on not to pester her. Can’t imagine what that might be.
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Maybe they give her a pass because “petans” are a bunch of filthy hippies. And filthy hippies love her dad.
When did Halloween change dates? It looks like Skeletor has entered the building.
And I thought the “petans” were a bunch of Burkenstock wearin’, non-pit shavin’ eco-terrorists. Not a bunch of filthy hippies.
Either way.
Sweet fancy Moses, would it carve a whole new hole in the ozone layer if she just DID SOMETHING about her ginormous IMAX forehead? Like, maybe, washed her hair and pulled some bangs over that thing before someone pulls up in a station wagon to watch the 8:00 showing of “Last House on the Left”? I mean, she has beautiful coloring. Really. But FIX THAT.
Erm…As you were.
Let’s not forget that she uses wool as well. Well, at least in her adidas line designs.
http://www.shopadidas.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3060338&shopGroup=R&cp=2019628.2189720.2189722.2216979&colorId=
PeTA doesn’t approve of wool either…if I’m not mistaken.
I’d bash her some more, but I like her perfume too much
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IMAX forehead!
Having lived in the UK for four years, they have an aversion to water. Must be a European thing.
oh, Holly, you mentioned wool…sorry, I just saw the link now. I think that was the first time I ever saw her use wool in her main line. But she uses wool in her adidas line all the freaking time. In every collection she does for them.
awwww, Pasta, I love her dad
(Well, actually, that’s not quite true…I love the Beatles, not Paul himself.) But I’m not a filthy hippie 
I wash.
“Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!” (Troy McClure)
Couldn’t resist, sorry.
Maybe she paid them with her samples from her label. Or blinded them with that forehead shine. Beige, I don’t think bangs are going to help that.
“a stella mccartney tribute” lol can PETA look any more stupid?? really?
What on earth is PETA’s problem with wool? If anything, that hair cut every spring probably makes the sheep feel better. Have these people ever been around real sheep? By the time they’re ready for shearing, they look like albino rastafarians and smell like musty death.
As for Stella’s silkworms, I guess they aren’t cute enough for PETA to worry about.
Hmmmm, maybe the wool IS her collected pit hair.
Ew, just grossed myself out, but I am laughing my butt off at the IMAX comment!!
To bad this writer is so ignorant and didn’t research what they were writing about. Stella McCartney uses Peace Silk. Peace silk is where the silk worm lives out it’s normal life cycle and emerges from the cocoon. The fragments of what is left in the cocoon is what is used to make the silk. The normal way is the silk worms are boiled alive. So before condemning someone, these writers should be responsible to research what they are talking about.
Man, the ugly stick whacked this one but something good.
Susan: I actually am aware of peace silk (aka wild silk), but Stella McCartney doesn’t use it. Before going ahead with this post I did my due diligence: I Googled her name and “peace silk” and “wild silk” and “vegetarian silk” and came up with bupkus. If you have a reliable source that proves McCartney swears by it, by all means, share. But I think her brand’s volume alone can attest that she uses the conventional stuff, which is much cheaper and more readily available.
Whether McCartney uses Peace Silk, Vegetarian Silk, Wild Silk, Warmonger Silk, Hardboiled Horrid Death Silk, etc. is irrelevant IF she claims to be a vegan. Vegans use NO animal products whatsoever, even if said animal didn’t have to sacrifice itself in the process. This means no wool and no silk.
I usually try to look beyond the superficial, but this chick’s facial symmetry is off by about three-quarters of a light year. One eye is like half the size of the other one, and happens to sit almost half an inch lower.
I hear her ex-stepmother is symmetrically challenged too. Runs in the family. Even though they are not technically related…
I have no idea whether McCartney is using it or not, but there is such a thing as vegan silk, in which the silk worms are not killed. The cocoons are used after the worm has broken out.
I have to admit, I don’t blame PeTa for taking what they can get. It’s a pretty unpopular stance they’ve taken, and an otherwise-vegan celebrity who makes use of a product that doesn’t require the death of an animal falls into the “close enough” category. Yes, it’s hypocritical, but I don’t think any of us would act much differently in a similarly unpopular organization’s PR department.
I have to disagree, This Guy. Not because it doesn’t make sense, but because if I were in PETA’s position with that unpopular stance, rather than spending tons of money on people who are close enough, which would in turn hurt my credibility and keep that stance unpopular, I would take a different approach to publicity, and possibly reflect on why that stance is so unpopular in the process. PETA, however, has thrown all integrity out the window because they feel that using famous, naked women, or handing out meaningless awards and booby prizes to people that meet their ever changing standards or wash their hands of those standards somehow means something. All they are really doing is appealing to the easily starstruck teenagers that want to save cute animals, and the lowest common denominator that just wants to see Eva Medez’s ass.
SO, this just is business as usual for PETA, right? ANyone else shocked that one of their spokesperson acutally uses poor little animals in making their designs? Doesn’t GOOP dress in Stella’s designs a lot as well?
Damn, you really can’t outsmart PeTA.
They gave the naked rabbit a cool Cockney accent; that’s pure marketing gold.
He’s the next gecko!
I can hear it now… “Mommy, mommy! Will Santa bring me a stuffed bloody rabbit? He’s sooooo cute!”
Ignoring for a moment that this commercial re-invigorated my lust for a Bottega Veneta croc bag…
You are all sorts of wonderful Holly.
Right now I’m working on “A Streetcar Named Desire” so the only thing going through my head reading this is Marlon Brando screaming in anguish “STEEEELLLLLLAAAAA!!!”
But in my case, it’s more of a frustrated kind of STFU yell.
seriously, its a fucking silk worm. Seriously.
Smooches back at you, Meg.
Alert the media. Our long national nightmare is over. We have, after considerable expense and time, found something JRod would not contemplate “hitting”. Besides Nadya Suleman.
Y’all, I keep coming back to look at that horrid photo. It’s like a canned ham donned a wig. I was in the middle of yard work a little while ago, and that freakish, greasy-haired image popped into my head all unbidden.
What in the world do you think “Captain Morgan” is for Beige? Coyote ugly isn’t just a stupid bar in some sh-tty movie.
People should also check their facts. Stella is not a vegan and has never professed to be.
You googled and that was your research? Stella was one of the first people to start sampling Peace Silk back in 2004 and incorporated it into her line.
If you want real research, you contact a firm and ask them what they use instead of spreading this information without any facts
If that’s true, how odd that not a single webpage on the entire internet suggests that Stella McCartney uses peace silk. Also, peace silk tends to be fuzzier and bulkier because the threads are ripped when the worm emerges and there’s no way this dress or this blouse or this mini are anything but the traditional stuff.
I don’t mind being proven wrong but methinks you have no evidence to the contrary.
Susan:
If Stella used exclusively Peace Silk, you would think that she would make it easy for her customers to find that fact out – since wild silk is many times more expensive than conventionally farmed silk. Yet, in every description of the silk products in her collection, no mention is made of how the silkworm was treated. It’s certainly not good business practice to use a vastly more expensive fabric for ethical issues, and then not tell your customers who are likely shopping on the basis of that ethical issue.
If you have evidence that she uses exclusively wild silk in her designs, by all means post it.
There are African children starving to death and dying of malaria in ridiculous amounts EVERY hour, and this mole is worrried about fucking silkworms?! FUCK THE SILKWORMS.