"Fake is not chic- but fake fur is."

When Karl Lagerfeld, fashion legend and genius behind Chanel, released his collection of faux fur items on the runway, it was a huge step in the right direction. "“Technical advances are so perfect you can hardly tell fake fur from the real thing. Fake is not chic — we have got a new Chanel tweed to stop copies — but fake fur is.” Can I get an amen? Karl Lagerfeld's collection may be getting the most publicity to the faux fur scence, but he wasn't the first to release faux fur  products. The amazing designers Stella McCartney and Ralph Lauren refuse to work with fur products, without compromising beautiful design.  http://fabulousfurs.com/ has a huge collection of gorgeous faux fur items.   They've got everything from throw pillows to beautiful coats. If you've got a wallet as thin as mine, Forever 21 always has adorable faux fur items, like vests, bags, and more. In other faux fur news, the wonderful Stella McCartney teamed up with PETA and designed a faux fur cap, which is usually bearskin, for the Queen's guards at Buckingham palace.  As easy as it would be to not think about all that went in to our fur products would be ignorant and frankly unfair to our furry friends that truly suffered to make you look good. Educate yourself! I'm not going to lie, I didn't watch this video, because I have already decided to stay away from fur, and frankly, I've heard this video isn't for the faint of heart. This video is form PETA, which reveals the harsh realities of the fur industry. http://www.peta.org/feat-fatalfashion.asp. If you chose not to watch the video, here is a brief overview of the gruesome reality of fur. Like most animals raised for human purposes, animals raised for fur are crammed into wire cages. Unfortunately, the most "convenient" and inexpensive ways of skinning and killing animals are the cruelest, which, according to PETA, include  suffocation, electrocution, gassing, and poisoning.  " More than half the fur in the U.S. comes from China, where millions of dogs and cats are bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and sometimes even skinned alive for their fur.Chinese fur is often deliberately mislabeled, so if you wear any fur, there's no way of knowing whose skin you're in." - Peta.org  Most people don't think of leather and wool as negatively as fur, however the methods of obtaining wool and leather are no less cruel. "Most leather comes from developing countries like India, and China, where animals routinely have their throats slit and their skin ripped off while they are still conscious. In India, a PETA investigation found thatcows have their tails broken and chili peppers and tobacco rubbed into their eyes in order to force them to walk after they collapse while traveling long distances to slaughter. Most of the world's wool comes from Australia, where sheep undergo 'mulesing,' a gruesome mutilation in which large chunks of skin and flesh are cut from lambs' backsides without any painkillers. Each year, millions of sheep discarded by the Australian wool industry are crammed onto export ships to be sent to the Middle East. Sheep who survive the terrifying voyage are often dragged off trucks by their ears and legs, tied up, beaten, and have their throats slit while they are still conscious."-Peta.org. I, like most of you all, have some form of products in my closet that came from animals, and I am ashamed to admit this. But now that I have educated myself on the harshness of conditions for the animals that suffer, I have decided that animals should not be victims of fashion. So even if you try to decrease your purchasing of animal products, you will make a huge difference. Let's make the demand for real go down, and the demand for faux go up. That's all for now.