Madonna was snapped wearing a fur coat made from the skins of 40 chinchillas which annoyed the animal rights groups. Activists against real fur accused the star for overlooking the brutality of how animals are farmed for their skins.
Pop star Madonna was wearing the £35,000 coat as she came out of the Mayfair restaurant with her hubby Guy Ritchie.
In 2001, she was pictured wearing a £1,000 hat by the milliner Philip Treacy that was made from the pelts of five foxes, and later she was claimed for wearing a coat that was supposed to be made from the pelt of unborn lambs.
It’s a big surprise that Madonna wears such lavish fur coats and on the contrary she considers meat and dairy products as unhealthy and strictly follows macrobiotic diet. Well this can annoy her vegetarian friend, fashion designer Stella McCartney, who refuses to work with any animal products, including fur and leather.
Lobby groups said that the chinchillas, which are part of the rodent family, are intensively farmed and then skinned alive in order to make fur products.
A spokeswoman for the lobby group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said,
We encourage anyone who wears fur to watch videos of these animals being electrocuted, caught in traps and skinned alive. Thousands of people, including Paris Hilton, have said that the videos changed their minds about wearing fur.
Earlier it was Kate Moss who became the target of PETA for wearing real fur clothes, but this year Nichole Richie was named as the worst dressed Celeb of the world by PETA and now Madonna is witnessed wearing real fur clothes.
Lobby Group’s rep said, ‘Chinchillas are shy, intelligent animals who can live for up to 15 years in the wild. Yet on fur farms, these animals are violently killed while fully conscious. We hope that Madonna’s recent acts of kindness in Africa move her to extend her compassion to animals.’
Though fur farming has been banned by in Britain since 2003, but chinchilla products are still imported from Europe, South and North America.
This is not for the first time that celebrities are using fur clothes. They are icons and people just want to follow them, especially everyone wants to wear what celebs are wearing.
