Michael Kors: Will you stop using fur?

My e-mail message to Michael Kors RE his Facebook video scheduled for 4 August, 2010:



3 August, 2010



Mr. Kors,

I have respect for intelligent people in the fashion industry, for those who are both timeless and move with the times, but particularly, for those who design with ethical foundation. When I make decisions about how I dress, share these decisions with others, or am photographed in what I am wearing, my first consideration is "Is the person who made this garment ethical?" The question "Is the person who designed this garment intelligent, tasteful, and both timeless and fashion-forward?" is dwarfed by the question of ethics, as, if the designer whom I might support with my money and advertisement (in publicly wearing the garment), is hurting others with his or her poor sense of morality, I will not have anything to do with any of his or her garments; I will not support this artist in any way.

I've recently learned that you've stopped purchasing certain types of fur; but I fail to understand why you, or any intelligent artist, would continue to use other types of fur, thus directly causing the vicious murder of other non-human animals.

You will be receiving a large number of mailings from people responding to at least one animal-rights-activism group over the next month. I understand that members of your staff have already been contacted by PETA, and that one of the mass mailings you will receive will contain information about the fur "industry". However, while necessarily polite, I find that these mailings fall short of impressing upon you the seriousness of your actions.

Fur "farmers" do use cheap and vicious killing methods, such as suffocation, anal or vaginal electrocution, gassing, poisoning (ineptly) and stomping or beating to death. Most often, however, the non-human people who are murdered, who are as sentient as any human animal is (and one might suppose you are), are brutally skinned alive, their still-living bodies thrown upon piles of other recently skinned and slowly writhing bodies.

To use such methods, or more importantly, to murder for fur at all, is, sadly, still considered to be a "choice" by many, including you, in the fashion industry. However, please consider that it was also, not so long ago, a choice to beat one's black slave, or to beat, rape or kill one's wife (or any woman) in our country. Would you have done this when it were legal to do so? Will you continue to make the choice to brutally murder non-human animals because it happens to be legal to do so?

I am appalled that you continue to support outdated and blatantly sadistic murder in the name of fashion, something that should be beautiful and artful, when so many exceptional cruelty-free materials are readily available for artistic fashion. There is no excuse for any intelligent designer to murder for fur. Further, humans who wear fur (and the designers who use it as a "fashion choice") simply look ugly, as it identifies them as unintelligent, thoughtless, selfish, and most of all, speciesist and emotionally deficient.

Times are changing, and many highly publicized members of the fashion industry are refusing to murder for fur. Now is the time to make yourself stand out in the fashion industry as a well-informed and thoughtful artist, or to stand out as outdated, thoughtless and cruel. Please make the intelligent and compassionate decision today to eliminate all fur from your clothing lines. Stand out by publicizing your choice to be intelligent and compassionate via Project Runway and your upcoming You Tube broadcast. This is the moment that will define you, not only as a fashion designer, but as a person:

Facebook question: Will you stop using fur?

Thank you in advance for making a truly forward-thinking choice to embrace compassion as a foundation for fashion,

Tiffany D Moon, DM
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A few fur-related videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLcgxIGTFRs&has_verified=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czARj7D2B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkw_OUnVXqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-jh7Obgghk&feature=related
http://www.furisdead.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJVcqhAuz0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RftSCY6d8Ug&feature=related
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=martha&Player=wm