Vegetarian Star

“It’s not cool and hip and glamorous. When I walk into stores and see people working with faux, it looks fantastic.”

“So I think that word is getting out that fur is no longer chic.”

—Cornelia Guest, in Straight.com.

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Maurice Jones-Drew of the Jacksonville Jaguars is the latest celebrity to strip down in a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ad against fur.

In his “Ink Not Mink” ad, the tattooed NFL running back stands proudly holding a football and showing off his impressive physique.

“It was important for me to get involved with the Ink Not Mink campaign,” Jones-Drew says in an interview and behind the scenes shoot for the PSA. “I have three dogs and to see some of the videos or to go online and see how animals are treated for fur –the cruelty is worse than torture.”

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Twiggy has had enough experience in the modeling industry to know that while supermodels look great in just about anything, fur definitely isn’t one of those clothing items.

The fashion icon from the 60 has teamed up with Animal Defenders International to promote these sentiments at London’s Fashion Week.

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Victoria Bartlett is using New York fashion week to spread the anti-fur message.

The fashion designer has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States and is helping to put on a presentation today during the events to raise awareness on animals in the fur trade.

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Lady Gaga has drawn the attention of PETA after the animal rights group learned of the singer’s recent fur purchases.

Gaga reportedly bought over $200,000 worth of coats from a store in Moscow, something not only out of the budget for most people, but, as PETA said, “Out of place, out of time, and possibly out of her mind.”

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Wendy Williams is talking about the latest trends in fashion outside her studios.

The talk show host agreed to pose in one of PETA’s “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” ads which was scheduled to be unveiled today in New York’s Times Square.

‘We should all try to be comfortable in our own skin and let animals keep theirs,” the former mink and fox fur wearer said.

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Tim Gunn, fashion guru and consultant on Project Runway, has published a book on the history of fashion–both history you’d like to remember and that you’d rather forget.

Who’s up for forgetting tie-dye? Everyone should be up for forgetting fur as Gunn says it belongs in the “dustbin of history.”

Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet devotes almost an entire chapter to the atrocities of the industry.

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Gavin Rossdale stopped by a fur-free demonstration PETA put on in Portland, Maine.

Rossdale has good taste in fashion and women, as PETA reports that both her and his, “fur-free wife, Gwen Stefani, are teaching their children to be kind to animals.”

Rossdale was once quoted as saying, “The person I love would never wear fur.”

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