“Alice + Olivia” Stacey Bendet Going To Hell For Fur Wearing Vegans
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 15th, 2010 in Fashion, Fur.
Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet won’t put anything except a plant in her mouth, but when it comes to designing her fashions, her ethics are a little less loose.
She’s aware of this contradiction and knows very well there’s a special place in hell for vegans who wear fur, where she’ll meet foxes, rabbits and chinchillas who will skin her alive, replacing her hide with bad, retro fashion from the 70s.
“I’m vegan, actually,” Bendet said, according to New York magazine. “I don’t eat [animals], I don’t put meat in my body. So every once in a while I think it’s okay to wear it. But I made it — I’m probably going to hell.”
This comment was made at a launch for M.A.C.’s Alice+Olivia collection at Beauty Bar in NYC while she wore a Mongolian Lamb vest she crafted herself.
“I don’t feel that guilty wearing it. I don’t know why. It doesn’t make sense. But something about putting it inside me feels really barbaric. Something about wearing it just feels a little glamorous.”
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July 15th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Call me the vegan police, but I think it’s pretty clear that she isn’t a vegan, no matter what she calls herself — no more than chicken McNugget eating “vegetarians” are actually vegetarians just because they think seeing bones in meat is gross.
July 16th, 2010 at 10:37 am
She is a vegan eater .. she just hasn’t adopted a total vegan lifestyle …
July 17th, 2010 at 11:00 am
@Jersey
In other words, she’s not a vegan, she’s a strict vegetarian.