Tom Ford’s latest handbag really stinks, and we don’t mean that in just the figurative sense. Clad in the carcass of a hapless skunk, the furry black-and-white number appears more like a prank than a luxe object of desire. The price for wrapping Pepé Le Pew’s Italian cousin around your fingers? $1,660. While animal cruelty is indefensible on any level, the use of fur for an ill-conceived gimmick strikes us as particularly egregious. Here’s hoping shoppers know a bad idea when they smell one.
+ Skunk Fur Minaudiere $1,660 at Neiman Marcus
[Via Shine]
This is grotesque,against the growing call for a more humane approach in the fashion industry after the centuries of animal abuse from feathers in hats heralding the decline in wild species, horrific abattoir suffering in the outsourced to low animal priority countries to the now notorious fur industry.
If this was in fake fur would it be less popular,where is the artistic content in a stiched up chunk of miserable animal,likely to be trapped, skinned alive or electrocuted?