Design Students Learn About Cruelty-Free Fashions March 20, 2007

Last week PETA's Director of Media Relations, Michael McGraw, and Senior Vice President Dan Mathews gave a presentation to the entire student body at Parsons about fur, leather, and wool. Parsons The New School for Design is an elite school and the setting for the Bravo reality TV show Project Runway. Tim Gunn, former dean of the school, helped initiate this groundbreaking awareness effort a few years back since he is big into making sure students know exactly how animals are mistreated before they end up as coats, hand bags, and shoes. We're excited with how it all went!

Some fancy pants designer Max Azria and his company, AZ3, Inc. (often sold under the name BCBG and To The Max), continue to sell fur and fur-trimmed clothing despite our pleas to use compassionate fur-free alternatives! Apparently some people don't quite understand that it's disgusting and disgraceful to wear skins of animals who have suffered in traps, been killed by gassing or anal or vaginal electrocution, or had their necks broken. Give Max Azria and his folks a call right now at 323-589-2224 and urge them to institute a fur-free policy, will you please? You can even get some street team points if you report back to us on how it went. Be polite, but firm and don't fall for their lame attempts to cover the cruelties behind every fur and fur-trimmed item they sell! Ladies and gentlemen, hit the phones 323-589-2224, leave messages, and help save some animals!

With so many fur-free fashions out there from Marc Bouwer to Stella McCartney and Ralph Lauren to J. Crew, it's easier than ever before to look good while keeping the blood off your hands

Do the animals a favor and sign the pledge to be fur free and drop us a line at College@peta2.com if you want to help pass around a petition at your university encouraging fashion students to go fur-free!

-Pulin

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