Word: fur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Medford resident reports that two fur coats were stolen from him while he was in Au Bon Pain...
Your article "Warming Up To Fur" attempted to portray the fur industry as making a healthy recovery [FASHION, Oct. 19]. But everyone knows that in producing a luxury fur, cruelty is inflicted on the innocent victims: leg-hold trapping, anal electrocution, neck wringing, overcrowding of cages in factory fur farms and the myriad other ways the killing occurs before the "fashion" emerges. Seeing someone in fur, I used to think that person was either ignorant of the suffering involved or insensitive to it. But today neither excuse is in fashion. GRETCHEN WYLER, President Ark Trust Inc. Encino, Calif...
...tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly helped torch two facilities in Oregon used to corral and slaughter wild horses, and they are the suspected culprits in the escape of 310 mink from Wisconsin fur farmers...
...fur industry seems to be winning the image battle everywhere except Britain, even though homegrown supermodel Naomi Campbell modified her slogan from "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" to "I'd rather go naked than wear fur--until it becomes fashionable again," when she wore a huge bourbon-colored fur for Fendi last year. The public is also showing signs of protest fatigue. In the past, fur activists who freed minks from farms got sympathy. Now they are prosecuted...
...fashion activity making any difference at retail? Sales of fur coats, according to the Fur Information Commission, have risen from 1991's low of $1 billion to 1997's $1.27 billion. But this is nowhere near 1987's high of $1.8 billion. Leslie Freund, marketing director for Maximilian, which sells furs at Bloomingdale's stores, says Maximilian has had double-digit increases over the past two years, but won't divulge exact figures. While the bulk of sales continue to be of classic mink coats, Freund says a growing number of young buyers are drawn to fur...