The Daily Telegraph profiled fashion designer and anti-fur activist Stella McCartney in January Ethical Treatment of Animals, but don\’t think that stops her from wearing animals skins. The Daily Telegraph\’s Sabine Durrant writes,

. . . When she [McCartney] arrives the first thing I notice is her cowboy boots, the color of pale calf, slightly battered. They looks so much like leather it\’s uncanny.

\’Yeah, I know,\’ she says, and tucks them out of sight. They must be the ones she sells — the veggie shoes that have been such a hit in her shops. I bend to admire them again, to touch them, but she\’s tucked her feet so far under her stool I can\’t reach them. It\’s only then it dawns that something dead may, actually, have walked out of her door.

\’Oh, these are leather,\’ I say. \’No, wait, these are vintage,\’ she replies.

I see. Fur is dead, but leather is vintage! Come to think of it, that steak I had the other day was (recent) vintage!

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Stella gets her groove back. Sabine Durrant, The Daily Telegraph, January 25, 2005.