hot new fashion....but the same old cruelty

year by year we`ve been heard about human cruelty in getting animal fur. there is a lot of campaign, advertisement and others have been done to wipe out all of this. but it still happen and a big name in designer always come out with a new fur coat design using new discovery of fur. as for example in year 2005, on runways in Milan and Paris, that year fall fashion collection shocked industry writers and animal advocates who had assumed the fur was long out of favor: Several prominent designers, from Gucci to Dolce & Gabbana, paraded haute couture made entirely from or trimmed with the fur of newborn or fetal lambs.

The fashion industry, perpetually aware of the importance of labels, has apparently and unapologetically opted to call the fur "astrakhan" this season. What that term means is not exactly clear—it could refer to the fur of newborn Persian or karakul lambs or it could refer to broadtail fur taken from fetal lambs (or generally refer to both)—but whatever its exact definition, astrakhan boils down to one thing: early death for lambs, often even death for fetal lambs and their mothers.this new born lambs juz came out from their moms womb. did they done anything wrong to us? so, why they been treated like that?

The well-known fashion retailers and designers below use karakul.
• Saks Fifth Avenue
• Neiman Marcus
• Barneys
• Bergdorf Goodman
• Henri Bendel
• Prada
• Marc Jacobs
• Armani
• Dolce and Gabbana
• Carmen Marc Valvo
• Dennis Basso
• Devi Kroell
• Gucci



A Dolce & Gabbana astrakhan and alligator boot & Burberry bag.


One way to stop the killing of infant and fetal lambs for their fur is to stop buying the products made from their pelts. Read labels closely and look for words such as Kara-Cool, astrakhan, broadtail, Persian lamb, swakara and krimmer. And tell your friends to do the same.