What You Can Do

Vogue magazine continues to run fur ads even though many designers, including Stella McCartney, Betsey Johnson, Bill Blass, Todd Oldham, Oleg Cassini, and others, have turned their backs on fur. Fur-free Stella was named "Designer of the Year" at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards in October 2000. During her acceptance speech, Stella asked fashionistas not to make animals fashion victims. Vogue's editor, Anna Wintour, still likes the furriers' money too much to listen.

Today's hottest celebs, including Pamela Anderson, Tyra Banks, Fiona Apple, Joaquin Phoenix, and Christy Turlington, have given fur the cold shoulder. Drew Barrymore turned down an appearance on the cover of Vogue because Anna Wintour wanted her in clothes by pelt-pushers instead of by Drew's pick, Stella McCartney. These famous faces, and others, prove that compassion is the only fashion.

The campaign to get fur out of Vogue has traveled to New York for numerous demonstrations at the Vogue headquarters and even to the Condé Nast (publisher of Vogue) Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. An independent activist in New York took matters into her own hands when she threw a dead raccoon onto Anna Wintour's plate, shouting, "This is for the animals, fur hag!" while Anna was dining at the Four Seasons. Another activist sent Wintour a package full of maggot-infested animal guts, with a note reading, "Here's the rest of your fur coat."

PETA has also "pelted" the Vogue editor: PETA's Fashion Week 2000 cards, handed out to media and glitterati alike, featured a caricature of the oh-so "Cruella" Anna, complete with dark sunglasses, trademark bobbed hairstyle, and ever-present fur coat. Inside, draped in animal skins, a skeletal, pink bikini-clad Wintour proclaims, "Without my fur, I am nothing." And, when Wintour attended a memorial service for her father in London, PETA sent flowers along with a card reading, "Please also remember all the animals who lose their parents because of the insensitivity of people who still promote fur." So far, the "Ice Maiden" remains unmoved.

Please e-mail, call, or write Anna Wintour urging her to stop taking furriers' blood money and to join the majority of the fashion industry by going fur-free.

Anna Wintour, Editor
Vogue/Condé Nast
4 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
E-Mail: Vogue
Tel.: 212-880-8800
Fax: 212-880-8169

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