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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Get out your wallet - Audrey's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Dress at Auction
We tend to keep our topics "light", but this is important... Please be responsibly fashionable. There are some things that we just don't "need' in order to be fashionable. Radical hate message do no good. Please instead "vote" by using your purchasing dollars on alternative items to stop the demand, or with other manufacturers, and by using your voice, your pen, and your keyboard.
The following information comes to us with thanks from our friends at Recy_Vintage. ========================================= Designers Who Use Seal Fur and Skin
A number of well-known fashion designers have used seal fur and skins in their collections during the past several fashion seasons. By using seal skin and fur in items such as coats, tunics, dresses, shoes, vests, jackets, handbags, pillows, and even lamp shades, these designers are providing the Canadian government and sealers with an economic incentive to continue the hunt.
The hunting of baby seals has been outlawed in the US. Seal hunting is allowed to indigenous people
Send a letter to these designers and politely request that they make their fashion more compassionate by ending the use of seal fur. Though the use of seal fur and skin is banned in the United States, these designers use seal products in their European and International Collections. Here are some points you can make.
Send your letters (if you live in the United States and you send your letters to Italy, postage will be $0.80) to the following design houses:
Gucci
685 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10022 212-750-5220 clientservice-europe@gucci.it
Versace Donatella Versace Versace S.P.A. Headquarters Via Manzoni, 38 Milan ITALY 20121 Phone: 39 02 76 09 31 Fax: 39 02 76 00 41 22
Prada World Headquarters Prada S.P.A. Via Andrea Maffei, 2 20154 Milan, Italy Phone: 39 02 54 67 01
Prada U.S. Katherine Ross, V.P. of Communications 610 W. 52nd St. New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212 307 9300
The Odette Leblanc Collection 022 de l'ecole Rd., Pointe-aux-Loups Iles de la madeleine PQ. G4T 8B1 Canada Phone: 418-969-9385 Email: oleblanc@sympatico.ca
Petit Nord OU Pikk Tn. 67-1 10133 Tallinn Estonia Phone: 011 + 372 372 6411211 Fax: 011 + 372 6411212 Email: Use the form at http://www.base-1.com/petit.html
The annual massacre started today at 6 am and will go on until the Canadian Government's quota for 325,000 dead baby seals!!!!! (And probably many more as the government doesn't do a count on the dead seals.) It's barbaric beyond words and those baby haven't done anything to deserve this!!! Their misfortune is that they are born with this skin that humans INSIST on wearing as coats, handbags, hats and shoes.
Please don't stop fighting the Canadian Government!!!!
Start by letting the world know, inform yourself fully so you have the answer when people ask you questions. Remember information is power!!!
Together we can do this. Never lose hope. never stop fighting. As hundreds of innocent baby seals are getting butchered in the most horrific ways, we must keep fighting, protesting, calling, boycotting.
Many folks have men's fur hats, and fur coats that they have been passed down from mom or grandma that they will never wear. Fur hats have not been on the fashion radar for men in quite some years. And the style that might have flattered grandma might not fit or flatter granddaughter. Many folks will also not wear animal fur period. While many vintage items go on to new and exiting lives, these types of items are usually passed down, only to stay hidden in a dark closet.
What to do with them?
One very great cause is to offer them for wildlife rehabilitation programs. There are a variety of species, from the endangered who folks are trying to help thrive, to injured adults, to more common wildlife such as squirrel, raccoon, and fox who are orphaned by mom getting hit by a car, their tree being chopped down and falling from their nest. It allows rehabilitators to have a "hands off" approach with young animals so they do not imprint to humans, but to their own species, if they have a chance of being released back into their environment.
If you would like to find out more, please visit the Humane Society of the United States.
This post is dedicated to the young raccoon that although we tried, we could not save last monday night. He was hit by a reckless driver in the car in front of us. Being animal lovers, we jammed on the brakes as we saw him pull himself to the side of the road with his front paws. We could not turn our backs on him - he surely would have been hit again, been ripped apart or froze to death. We took him home and kept him warm and quiet, thanks to the advice of a kind rehabilitator who picked up the phone so late at night and talked us through. Please support these folks, they do beautiful work. Unfortunatety, my family nor the vet could reverse the extensive paralysis. We were so heartbroken, but are willing to help the next animal that should need us, even if it is not the kind of animal we would expect.
