Tim Gunn! Tim Gunn! December 21, 2008

Posted by Patricia at December 21, 2008 6:15 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 9 ) | TrackBack

How awesome is it that Tim Gunn narrated peta2's new fashion industry exposé?! Who better to tell designers and shoppers what happens to animals before they become coats, sweaters, cuffs, shoes, bags, and the like.

What's even cooler though is that Gunn sent the video to Donna Karan and Giorgio Armani with a personal plea to both designers to stop using fur in their lines. Take that fur pimps!

Says Gunn, "Any designer in the fashion industry who does not want to watch the PETA video and see exactly what happens to animals and how they're treated and how the product that they use comes to the marketplace I believe is egregiously irresponsible. It is critically important that we all be educated about these matters and then make choices. It is egregiously irresponsible not to."

Oh, Tim Gunn, you're so wonderful. He had some other great things to say about Project Runway and fur so check out this fab interview (my favorite part is the very end!).

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ANTM's Nigel Barker Fights to End Seal Slaughter March 5, 2008

Posted by Patricia at March 5, 2008 10:10 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 3 ) | TrackBack

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Photographer and America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker just took a trip to Canada to shoot probably the cutest models he'll ever have the pleasure of working with...baby seals! My crush on him just got about ten times bigger.

Of course as we all know the pleasure is short lived because in less than a month those same baby seals will most likely be bludgeoned to death in Canada's barbaric annual seal hunt.

So Barker decided to do what he does best and photograph the seals to show the world the amazing faces of the gentle, trusting animals who will soon become fashion's latest victims.

"I hope to raise awareness in the youth of today with the graphic images of both the joy and desperation from the largest mammalian birthing site and consequent killing fields on Earth. This sort of behavior cannot and will not be tolerated by the youth of today and I intend to do something about it," he said.

How marvelous that someone who's actually involved in the fashion industry is speaking up for the baby seals instead of cashing in on their horrible deaths. Of course, Barker's not the only celeb calling for an immediate end to the seal hunt and I'm sure he won't be the last...unless it's actually stopped once and for all that is, and that's where you come in.

Barker is calling for the youth of today to do something about the seal hunt and since youth = you please sign our petition asking the Canadian government to end the seal hunt forever.

xox

Patricia