Johnny Weir Doesn’t Believe In Fake Fur
Written by Vegetarian Star on March 2nd, 2011 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Fur.
Figure skater Johnny Weir has launched into the fashion world by serving as a guest designer at Adrienne Landau’s Fall 2011 show at New York Fashion Week.
The pieces included unisex items featuring fox, rabbit, mink and chinchilla fur.
If it sounds like Weir worships real animal fur, that assumption is right on track. Weir told Stylist he doesn’t believe in fake fur.
“I’m a firm believer in real fur. I don’t believe in fake fur,” Weir said. “Despite having death threats and people wanting me to be hurt because I wear fur, that makes me more aggressive in my choice to wear fur. It’s my choice. And I feel like everyone is entitled to that. This is America, after all.”
Real fur involves catching animals with painful traps, keeping them in cramped, wired cages and either gassing or electrocuting them to obtain their coats. Sometimes they’re even skinned alive.
Oh, boy. Weir had warned the world about his own fashion label and the massive amounts of forest critters he’d round up for the collection. But this recent announcement of his cruel, fur-waring religion is still hard to swallow.
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March 3rd, 2011 at 12:49 am
Personally, I think he is a total asshole, because he probably knows the horrible things that go on and how selfish fur wearing is, but still derives pleasure from it.
But hearing someone actually say that the mean words and death threats fuel him to continue promoting this cruelty, should make us look for other ways of getting the word out about the fur industry.
Many people are turned off by animal activism and issues because of mean spirited and overly aggressive tactics. And they have no clue what really goes into making fur coats, hats, etc.
Maybe if we went about spreading information in a more peaceful and empathy-fueled instead way, instead of with anger and red paint, we can reach more people.
I would really hate to think that we have a hand in his fur heroism…