Human Hair Scarf? Anna Wintour Receives Extraordinary Gift From PETA
Ahead of London Fashion Week, PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk is sending Vogue’s global editorial director Anna Wintour a luxurious scarf woven from the only acceptable animal hair to use for fashion – human hair that Newkirk volunteered to have shorn from her own head.
Crafted by Studio Sanne Visser, the 100% human hair scarf dyed black to remind its wearer of the dark reality involved in crudely tearing hair from goats, and other involuntary animal subjects who are frightened, thrown or tied down, and suffer torn skin so that what rightly belongs to them can be used in human accessories and garments. And, unlike environmentally devastating cashmere, this follicular fashion statement is eco-friendly.
Anna Wintour and PETA
Wintour once had dead raccoon tossed on her plate while dining at the Four Seasons, and Newkirk also stormed Wintour’s Vogue office in New York, took over the reception desk, and answered the phone by declaring, “We’re closed today due to cruelty to animals,” as a protest against the magazine’s promotion of fur. In a letter accompanying the gift, Newkirk points out that times have changed since these run-ins, and people are now aware of how greatly animals suffer in the fashion industry. This gift is therefore meant as a “peace offering” – given in the hope that Wintour will wear it during the Fashion Week circuit to make a powerful statement that fashion has evolved from exploitive to empathetic.
Cashmere Is Stolen Goods
Goats are highly social animals who can become depressed if they’re separated or isolated from their companions. PETA Asia investigations into cashmere operations in China and Mongolia – where nearly all of the world’s cashmere is produced – revealed terrified goats screaming in pain as workers pin them down, twist their legs, and tear out their hair with sharp, rake-like metal combs, tearing off pieces of their skin and leaving some with bleeding wounds.
Goats deemed no longer profitable are sent to the slaughterhouse, where workers drag them onto the kill floor, bash them over the head with hammers, and slit their throats.
A second PETA Asia investigation into cashmere operations in Mongolia – including one with ties to British fashion brand Burberry – documented a worker using a knife to cut open kids’ scrotums and pull out their testicles with his bare hands, all without any pain relief.
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Please never wear cashmere and urge designers and brands to choose only vegan materials and stop supporting the exploitation and slaughter of goats:
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