A leader of a free nation should know you don’t reason with terrorists. But for some reason French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy tried to play nice with PETA by promising not to wear fur or leather unless the animals were raised for food purposes:
“I do not wear, buy or own fur or animal skin other than leather or skin of animals raised for feeding purposes. I am not a vegetarian and I don’t find it illogical to wear skins of animals whose meat is also eaten.” She adds: “I would gladly consider giving away sable, fox and other fur coats — if I owned any.”
PETA slobbered all over themselves sending her a pair of vegan shoes, but they seem to be willing to overlook Bruni-Sarkozy’s big fat bad memory.
Don’t you love her bag here? It’s Dior. It’s also crocodile. She must love croc because she has another one just like it. She has quite the silk collection too, including a silk georgette Dior dress she wore to a British state dinner last year and a whole host of silk tops and Hermès scarves she wore when the Obamas were visiting (doesn’t anyone think of the silkworms?).
Now I know the French eat a lot of crazy things, but crocodile and silkworms? Mon oeil.
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I ate alligator for the first time last week. Is that different than a crocodile. Seriously, I don’t know. Actually, I don’t care. I’m an equal opportunity meat eater.
She looks gorgeous in that photo.
I’ve ordered crocodile off of a menu in an Australian restaurant. People do eat crocodile. Probably not the one her purse was made from though.
PETA will never condemn people for wearing silk because silkworms aren’t cute ‘n’ cuddly and then they’d have to rip everyone in Hollywood a new one.
Hey, can I get that bag in dark green, preferably without taking out a home equity loan?
crocs *are* edible and are commonly eaten, if we want to be technical.
MC Mom said it before me; Not Cute = Not Worth Saving.
Most Dior bags in that style are croc-stamped leather– I looked it up and that black bag is available in croc-stamped patent leather, so basically plastic. Yum!
Jules, sorry to say that patent leather ≠ plastic. It’s still leather, although I doubt Carla goes for Dior’s downmarket embossed bags anyway. She easily can get one of their real croc products from her husband’s best friend Bernard Arnault. Besides, the second bag I linked to looks vintage (and therefore real).
I also question that Paris-based Dior is shipping the leftover ‘gator meat down under to be served as dinner in fine Australian establishments. Just a hunch.
Holly, like Jules said, there’s a lot of bags that are merely stamped with the crocodile print. Sure, they COULD be the real thing, but it’s much easier for the designers to use the stamped leather.
I had a vegan ex (translation: also a hypocrite) who viewed leather as bad but silk as acceptable because the silkworms are an insect. He said drinking milk advocated cruelty to animals and I have NO IDEA how bad farm animals have it (I’m from farmland, Ohio…he was from Los Angeles. Yea, I’m completely clueless)…yet if I were to get pregnant he’d want me to have an abortion.
Back to Bruni-Sarkozy… she said she wouldn’t *wear* the leather or fur…. she’s merely carrying the purse
She also did not mention silk 
Did you forget where she is living? France…where almost everything seems to be made of silk. No wonder she never mentioned silk, because it’s like cotton to us.
Sheesh, at least Carla isn’t wearing couture by Ace of Cakes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191620/First-Lady-flamboyance-Michelle-Obamas-confident-duty-chic-London-city-break.html
Re: link from Minnow
I threw up in my mouth a little. How anyone can claim Mrs. Obama is a fashion savant after that outfit is beyond me. Carla = cute. Michelle = puke. Sooo many don’ts, I don’t even know where to begin.
@ Ani – I cannot take any pro-choice animal-lover seriously. Those kind of people need to get their priorities straight. A defenseless tiny person (or even potential person) deserves far more protection than any animal. These people have their priorities so mixed up that they condemn putting honey in their tea because some insignificant bee worked on that honey, yet they’d snuff out a human life without batting an eye. Makes me sick and frankly quite skeptical of any animal-friendly movement, unless they can prove that they still value humans more.
@ Minnow – That Michelle Obama outfit was HORRENDOUS!! I almost choked. Are there any articles on that in the US press? We have to hear about it every single time she wears something stylish. Is the worshipful bias so blatant that they would dare to sweep this atrocity under the rug?
I’m pretty sure God intended crocodiles to be used specifically for handbags, wallets and shoes. Croc Birkins are works of art.
Love her whole look in that picture. And we get a gorilla for first lady.
I’m sorry, but MO’s outfit there looked like she was mugged by Cindy Brady during some horrendous Home Ec festival. Where are the Fug Girls when you really need ‘em?
And @Ani and TrojanPrincess: I’m with you. I have yet to meet any pro-life vegans. Not sayin’ they’re not out there somewhere, just that I’ve never encountered one, either online or IRL.
Oh–and while I’m up: Haven’t had crocodile, but alligator? Is delicious. Especially with red beans and rice. Nom nom nom.
“And we get a gorilla for first lady”…Very offensive.
The link to the Dior bag specically states that the bag is a croc print. It is not crocodile at all.
Is there even a story here?
Darla, the croc print bag in the link is a different Dior bag. That site is a “get the look for less” type of deal. Dior makes plenty of real croc bags and there’s no reason to think Carla would go for anything but the best.
So Bruni-Sarkozy responded after PETA Vice President Dan Mathews contacted her? PETA yet again trying to recruit/coerce public figures for their “cause”.
Is it that difficult to simply ignore PETA? (That is, when they’re not unofficially blowing shit up or committing animal genocide.)
Just to set things straight, Crocodiles are raised on farms, http://www.crocfarm.com.au/, where they are bred for both skins and meat. The main market for the skins is the high end fashion trade and the meat is available all over the place. Also Holly, we, in Australia, ship the stuff to the Frogs, we don’t get it from them, and its also crocodile, not alligator
Now I know very little about handbags other than what I can see with my eyes, but a search on eBay shows that no faux-crocodile Dior bag is being sold or has been sold recently.
There are lots of genuine crocodile Dior bags for sale, though.
As for patent leather being plastic… only in Men’s Tuxedo rental shoes.
“And we get a gorilla for first lady…”
Let’s trade with the French – they give us Carla, and we’ll pretend we are giving them the Statue of Liberty back, but send them Michelle instead…I bet they won’t notice.
I’d rather be called a gorilla than a “slutty stewardess.” Now, that’s offensive on SO many levels.
or rather, “slutty flight attendant.”
TrojanPrincess and Beige… the “logic” this guy possessed was mind-boggling, and I find it’s typical of that sort. I loved how he tried to lecture me on how bad farm animals have it. There’s also a funny story I have about his reaction to me having a rabid raccoon shot (he said I should have trapped it and set it free in the country. Yea, that’s perfectly legal. NOT) I asked what he would have preferred to happen, and he said “You could always get rabies shots”. Next breath he asked if we were going to get back together. Erm…!
Best memory I have of him… me showing off my adorable embroidered leather and fleece jacket I bought for our trip to the UP of MI, saying how adorable it was. Stopped his heart, it did!
@Ani: Awesome. It’s so much fun to mess with douchebags like that. Hold up a pack of steaks and yell “Boogity boogity! FLEEEEEEESSSSSHHHH!” And then watch them blanch and run for the door.
People Eating Tasty Alligators?
**Turns to sit in the corner**
Stone, I am with you on that. I love how Palin bashing and calling her names along with Prejeen is fine, but say the same thing about a Democrat and it is offensive. How about the hate f*uck list on Conservative women Playboy had out? I found it highly offensive, just never heard a peep
A who in the what now? A hate f*ck list? As in, rape women whose political leanings they don’t like, or what? Surely not. Surely a fine, upstanding bunch of folks like Playboy wouldn’t do that.
Yes. Yes, they did, in fact, publish a “hate f*ck” list, and this was the first I’ve heard about it. Apparently the MSM is just spiffy with that sort of thing, as long as it’s directed at conservative women.
Hey Beige, I actually have known a few very pro-life vegan Hindu friends while in high school. They do exist.
I noticed that Letterman didn’t say anything about Michelle ever, like compare her to a Slutty Cindy Lauper with that outfit.
Beige, it is both sad and true. Scary, ain’t it? I found that highly offensive, especially as a rape victim myself. So, because I am conservative, I deserve to be raped?
On to other things, that outfit the First Lady is wearing looks like something I tried to make when I was 5 and in 4-H. Somehow I lost the blue ribbon that year.
Jolly Green Midget: Good to know. I didn’t rule out the possibility, just stated that I’ve never run across one. But there are more things in heaven and earth…
@ Ani: the guy wanted a terminally ill animal to be let loose in the wild to infect other animals??? This is why PETA doesn’t make sense. They only want to kill healthy animals for no reason, but object to killing animals for food and clothing. At least there is a reason for those deaths!
aaw: that’s awful. I hope they put away the guy for good.
Nothing is off limits to the libs. That gap-toothed freak can “joke” about Sarah Palin’s 14-y.o. daughter, but later claim he had been referring to Bristol, as if that justifies it. What about all the different ways they referred to GWB? And fantasizing about his assasination? No, not offensive at all.
Re: MO = gorilla, blame my eyes.
She looks old in that pic.
Well, AllyKat, letting it “die with dignity” in the wild was preferable to the quick death the police delivered (police had to do it since I was in city limits).
Stonegrigio, I’m a liberal and even I found the jokes about Palin’s daughter extremely distasteful and offensive. If Letterman thinks he needs to degrade the children of politicians…especially a 14 year-old girl like Willow Palin who has stayed low-key…to get laughs, then he needs to rethink his career. Letterman backtracking and saying the joke was about Bristol, who is 18, just makes him even scummier. Why mention those girls at all?
Holly, I love the title! I’m glad those two years of high school French are good for something. Finally.
a little older than my typical woman, but I’d hit it!