Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs. - Rue McClanahan, US actress, Golden Girls
Fur is worn by beautiful animals and ugly people.
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me...her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it. - Bea Arthur, TV personality, U.S.
I think it's really disgusting that designers use fur, and it's disgusting that people wear fur. It has to stop. It's so unnecessary in today's world, with the technology we have. I'm wearing fabulous "ultrasuede" tonight. This is totally the look of leather. There's a way to get it without death involved. We should be part of the solution, not part of the problem. - Marc Bouwer
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. - Doris Day, Actress
It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take thier life away for fashion. - Carmen Electra
In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous. - Kristen Johnston
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. - Rue McClanahan, US actress, Golden Girls
I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity. - Jayne Meadows, US actress
We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion. - Charlize Theron
The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60 mink killed to make that coat. - Trish Donnally
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke. - Gavin Rossdale
Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. - Vickery Eckhoff, Audubon, Nov. 1990 (on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals)
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
The fur industry butchers animals and pollutes our environment. I could never wear fur. - Fernanda Tavares
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: "These shoes are not vegetarian." That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. "My mum taught me to have a soul." - Stella McCartney
The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it...Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary. - Stella McCartney
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing. - Martina Navratilova, Professional tennis player
