Elizabeth Hurley slammed for glamourising the wearing of fur

by Jennifer Whitehead, Brand Republic 24-Nov-08, 14:35

LONDON - Elizabeth Hurley is the latest celebrity to fall foul of animal rights groups after appearing in a promotional campaign for the US fur company Blackglama.

Blackglama is famous for its 'What becomes a legend most?' strapline, having signed up some of the world's most glamorous women to promote its black mink furs, including Elizabeth Taylor, Maria Callas, Lauren Bacall and Bette Davis. Singer Ray Charles also appeared in an ad for the company.

Robbie LeBlanc, a spokesman for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said: "Her wardrobe is now as dead as her film career. It's shocking that she's taking money to wear baby minks, who are skinned at six months old for Liz's luxuries."

Cindy Crawford was criticised in 2004 for agreeing to promote the company -- particularly in light of the fact that she had been one of the models appearing in the famous 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur' campaign in the 1990s.

A spokesman for Blackglama said at the time that Crawford had never agreed to appear in that campaign.

Earlier this month, Peta launched its own anti-fur campaign featuring the Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia. The ad says that wearing fur-trimmed clothing is no less cruel than wearing a fur coat, and features Imbruglia cuddling a rabbit with the line "Tell Him It's Just a Little Fur Trim".

Comments

Anna Frost - 25/11/2008

It seems a little ironic that the 'Ads by Google' below are for 'Fur Coats at Webfurs.com' and 'Buy Milk Fur Coats'!

Archie Strang - 25/11/2008

I think the issue here is that people don't eat mink, it is purely killed for rich ladies from High Street Ken to wear its pelts. We are missing a trick - mink makes delicious burger and should be on more menus. This would result in mass market mink farming and mink fur becoming less exclusive, hence greatly irritating the lady-toffs, keeping everyone warm and getting Peta to shut the **** up.

A DIAZ - 25/11/2008

About the only thing legendary about Liz Hurley is her incredibly bad acting and fake posh accent

Dominic Gudgeon - 25/11/2008

so what does mink actually DO?

Nicola Lucas - 25/11/2008

hey is that Petersruder or something in your picture Dominic, that's a weird book

John Knapp - 25/11/2008

Hey PETA, how about all the thousands of animals you kill a year?? http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

Helen Coult - 27/11/2008

Hey John, are you a vegan who refuses to wear even leather? If not, your somewhat unhelpful and impulsive comment shows that PETA's campaigning has certainly touched on a nerve with you! Could the tone of your comment be indicative of a guilty conscience? \(Now I'm winding you up, btw....perhaps you just support the fur trade.) Whatever, looks like their marketing strategy has certainly rattled your cage \(so to speak!).