Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:01:25 -0800
Subject: Designer Lagerfeld's battle with PETA (Post Chronicle)

The Post Chronicle (NY)
Lagerfeld's Fur Battle With Peta
by Staff
Jan 7, 2009
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_212198051.shtml

Designer Karl Lagerfeld has launched into a bitter battle with animal
rights activists after defending the use of fur in fashion.

The 75-year-old German boss of fashion house Chanel claims anti-fur
protesters are "childish" and argues hunted animals would kill their
human predators if they could.

Lagerfeld says, "In a meat eating world, wearing leather for shoes and
even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

"(In the north, hunters) make a living having learned nothing else
than hunting, killing those beasts who would kill us if they could
kill us."

Michael McGraw, spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (peta), has hit back, telling the New York Post,, "Lagerfeld
seems particularly delusional with his kill-or-be-killed mentality.
When was the last time a person's life was threatened by a mink or
rabbit?"

It's not the first time Lagerfeld has battled Peta; in 2001 activists
in New York hurled tofu pies at him at an event to protest his use of
fur - but they missed, hitting fellow designer Calvin Klein instead.
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