Fashion Quarterly

TO FUR OR FAUX

When Donatella Versace and Gucci’s Alessandro Michele declare a trend needs to end, the fashion world drops the offending item faster than it takes a runway model to change backstage.

“Fur? I’m out of that,” Versace told The Economist’s 1843 magazine this year. “I don’t want to kill animals to make fashion. It doesn’t feel right.”

“It’s like when you have to stop to smoke,” Michele told the Business of Fashion website, when announcing Gucci’s

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