Karl Lagerfeld has defended fur usage in fashion world, saying it isn’t just a lavish accessory for some consumers, it’s an industry for many Americans.
The 81-year-old designer said in a candid new interview that for him, as long as people eat meat and wear leather, he doesn’t get the message, adding it’s very easy to say no fur, but it’s an industry, E! Online reported.
Lagerfeld added that who will pay for all the unemployment of the people if you suppress the industry of the fur and the hunters in the north for the sable as they have no other job, there is nothing else to do. Those organizations who are much against it, they are not Bill Gates.
Lagerfeld, who is very sympathetic, noted that he hates the idea of killing animals in a horrible way, but he thinks all that improved a lot, adding that he thinks a butcher shop is even worse as it’s like visiting a murder. It’s horrible and so he prefers not to know it.
The world-famous designer, who recently announced that he would be adding a show of “haute fourrure” or couture fur for fur-centric Fendi during the Paris couture collections in July, added that it’s not a celebration, rather is a new start.
He added that in the past, Fendi did only fur, then they started to do ready-to-wear and funny fur [i.e., faux fur], but this was 40 years ago. Now, it’s time to do the highest level of couture fourrure, but better to do it during haute couture because it’s the right place to show it to the right people. (ANI)