First, a little bit of history:
Paris Hilton headlined PETA's "worst-dressed" list for 2005 because she wore lots of fur coats.
In February 2006, anti-fur PETA activists pelted her with "flour bombs" (like a water balloon with a puff of smoke instead) after she appeared in Julien Macdonald's show at London's Fashion Week.
Sometime in the next three months, PETA got to her. By May, Paris had sat down with Heather Mills and watched the group's anti-fur videos, and started saying that she would no longer wear fur. Paris even told Pam Anderson that she might want to start being an anti-fur spokesperson.
In June 2006, Paris' spokesman Eliot Mintz told TMZ: "Paris does not wear fur, nor will she wear fur described as artificial fur knowing it came off the backs of animals."
More firm quotes followed. To World Entertainment News Network: "I am not going to be wearing fur anymore." To China's Xinhua news agency, about the meeting with Heather Mills: "From that point I've never worn fur and I never will."
Mills herself claimed last year that Paris was "an absolutely lovely girl and actually quite bright" (which should be the first sign that something is amiss, but I digress…) "After she had used a box of tissues she said, 'I will never, ever wear fur again and I will hand all my fur over tomorrow', and she did."
Which brings us up to the present day. Berglund of Copenhagen, a famous furrier in Denmark, announced proudly on its website last month that Paris Hilton ordered 3 jackets … at her recent visit." And unless I'm misunderstanding something, Paris was also wearing Berglund furs in a December 2007 issue of Star magazine.
Here's a lovely MSN StarLounge story with a slideshow of Paris Hilton's many Danish furs (that first one sells for over US $45,000). Now why on earth can't you find this anywhere in the English-speaking world? Does anyone out there read Danish? I know that their coins have holes in the middle, and their pastries don't. That's about it.
Everybody repeat after me: Celebrities who say they're too "moral" or "ethical" to wear fur coats or eat meat are not to be trusted. They all float back to earth eventually — as soon as they realize that they're not that special, or that PETA is a corrupt bunch of opportunistic leeches.
i wish that i could say i was surprised. eh
if only Paris(,Heather Mills,Stella McCartney, & Pam Anderson) could find a charity REALLY worth going crazy about. maybe helping children or the homeless.....
i just don't understand why they are all such hypocrites .Paris eats at McDonalds all the time(yeah, seen it with my own 2 eyes. she's gotta get something for the munchies, i guess). would peta approve?
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