 Donna
Karan's "Killer Look" Draws Protest
As DK Receives Lifetime Fashion Achievement Award, PETA Says
Her Lack of Compassion Promotes Clubbing, Drowning, Poisoning, Electrocution
Killings
PETA is celebrating Donna Karan's "Lifetime Achievement"
award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), to
be presented at the organization's awards ceremony on Monday evening,
by holding a demonstration outside Karan's flagship store on the same
day, holding aloft giant posters reading, "Donna Karan's Killer
Look," and showing a graphic photo of a man clubbing a baby seal.
The activists, one of whom will wear a "body-screen" TV
to show video footage of this year's seal slaughter, are demanding
that Karan and all designers who sell any animal fur take
the blame for increased international demand for all fur,
including that of baby seals who are bludgeoned to death on the ice
of Newfoundland:
Date: Monday, June 7
Time: 12 noon sharp
Place: In front of Donna Karan's flagship store, 819 Madison Ave.
at E. 68th St.
This spring, the world looked on in horror as the Canadian government
permitted the killing of 350,000 baby harp seals-the largest number
in half a century. The seals are clubbed with bats and often skinned
alive while their mothers look on helplessly and cry (footage can
be seen at PETATV.com).
The sealing industry reports that the stepped-up killing is due to
the increased demand for all fur, not just seal fur.
All animals trapped for fur suffer fear and excruciating pain, often
for days, before having their chests stomped or necks broken by trappers.
On fur factory farms, animals spend their lives in tiny, filthy cages,
where they often go mad before being killed by poisoning, gassing,
anal electrocution, or neck-breaking.
"Whether it's baby seals being clubbed, foxes and minks being
genitally electrocuted on fur farms, or coyotes having their chests
crushed in traps, the torture and killing of animals for their fur
is the direct result of people's buying and promoting fur," says
PETA Senior Campaign Coordinator Lisa Franzetta.
Last year, when Vogue magazine editor and fur promoter Anna
Wintour received the 2003 CFDA lifetime achievement award, protesters
picketed in front of the Vogue offices on the day of the event, and
five activists in "bloodied" fur coats were arrested.
For more information, please visit PETA's Web site FurIsDead.com.
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