'Girls Gone Wildlife': PETA's Topless Fashion Week Protest (PHOTOS, POLL)

PETA protesters dressed up for Fashion Week on Tuesday by stripping down. The activists painted their bodies to resemble animals and held a silent protest across the street from Lincoln Center, where designer Dennis Basso was showing a spring collection that incorporated chinchilla, Russian sable, python and alligator, among other animal skins.

In a press release PETA's Executive Vice President hammered the point home, explaining: ""With all the luxurious, cruelty-free fabrics on the market today, you can get a 'to-die-for' look that no one had to die for."

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[Genevieve Hannon]

04:05 AM on 09/30/2010

“Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International toured fur farms in China's Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. There are no regulations governing fur farms in China—farmers can house and slaughter animals however they see fit. The investigators found horrors beyond their worst imaginings and concluded, "Conditions on Chinese fur farms make a mockery of the most elementary animal welfare standards. In their lives and their unspeakable deaths, these animals have been denied even the simplest acts of kindness." When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States.”

[Kelly616]

09:48 PM on 10/28/2010

Animals are not 'skinned alive' in the fur industry, that is simply animal rights propaganda.
While there is one video of a Raccoon Dog being skinned alive in China (which many experts believe to be staged) it does not represent the fur industy in the slightest.
That is like saying the evil Conklin Dairy farm represents all dairy farms, if that was the case, everyone would STOP consuming dairy products!

Wearing fur is no more cruel than eating meat, except the fur item will last 40+ years and the meat item will be in the toilet the next day.
Most of the worlds fur is farmed in EUROPE. China are the worlds biggest IMPORTERS of fur pelts, they then process them and export them to the world, making them the largest exporters of 'finished' fur products.

[ThomasPaine1776]

02:57 PM on 09/26/2010

The phrase should be "Animal products". It is ALL horrible. I was at last nights 30 year gala at the Palladium, and saw footage of animals, awake, fully aware, tied up and terrified, get their throat slit, then the worker inserted his fingers into the wound, then, lean back and PULL and YANK the skin right down the body, much like youd yank down a pair of tight pants. Just ripped it down, yank, yank yank yank. The worker was left with an inside out skin, and the animal, which survived this was twitching in pain and shock, but still alive. The same is done for leather as well, it is just done mechanically, in the slaughterhouse, by big rollers. Leather is horrible too.

[Siren Song]

06:25 AM on 09/26/2010

Well done, protestors! There is absolutely no need for fur in the 21st century. Get a clue and a heart, designers!

[tobynsaunders]

05:12 PM on 09/18/2010

It's a pretty simple issue really; the only thing that makes non-animal-product living difficult is tradition... the beaten path.
We're fine to say, "no, we will not allow children to be killed for clothing or food" & that is awesome but we should take that all the way & understand that these animals used for clothes or products otherwise... dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, cows, ducks... are only different from children in appearance. They have comparative levels of consciousness & so we should respect that, like we respect kids rights.
Children aside, chimps & dolphins are comparable to young adults (or full grown adults in some cases, no joke!). PETA does amazing work.
People did the abolition of racist-slavery not long ago & now we should do the abolition of speciest-slavery, in the good name of ethical progression!

[Genevieve Hannon]

04:12 AM on 09/30/2010

The first intelligent remark I have read thus far on this thread. Thank you.

[hidenout]

10:39 PM on 09/16/2010

I prefer my pussys without fur as well.....;-)

[Beth Boyle]

06:29 PM on 09/16/2010

Peta has killed so many dogs and cats it is just so hypocritical of them to put on stunts like these. They do not even try to find homes for the cats and dogs they take in they just kill them as fast as they can.

[ThomasPaine1776]

03:04 PM on 09/26/2010

Dogs and cats are carnivores. Those dogs and cats require that other animals be killed to sustain them. Goats are vegan. Rabbits are vegan. Hamsters are vegan.

[KIVPossum]

04:41 PM on 09/16/2010

Think PETA has evolved into a club for women that want to go naked in public

[Beth Boyle]

06:28 PM on 09/16/2010

Me too.

[Timothy Garry]

09:01 PM on 09/15/2010

They need to get those signs out of the way... let's see some titties! Wait, what are they protesting again...?

[KIVPossum]

04:42 PM on 09/16/2010

I think this protest is over furs. Then they sit on their leather seats and drive home

[Genevieve Hannon]

04:07 AM on 09/30/2010

Actually, you are incorrect. Everyone in participation is a vegan and does not wear or sit on any animal skins. Even the taxi cab seats are vinyl.

[shantiquax]

05:26 PM on 09/15/2010

Good for them.

[JackiChan]

03:33 PM on 09/15/2010

What a bunch of tools.

[playsindirt]

03:21 PM on 09/15/2010

While I applaud their passion and their ultimate message (animal cruelty is a very bad thing!), I think they should put that money and energy into helping people, not animals.

[seajewel]

10:11 PM on 09/15/2010

I think you have to find your passion in life and you will be most successful at it. Some may be passionate about the elderly for others it's children. You can not be the one to determine that for them.

I can not imagine this world without animal rights activists. Imagine what that would do to humanity if we didn't have the laws that they help put in place and we could not defend against the cruelty and abuse of animals, or be able to protect my own beloved dogs. Neither is it a world I would want my children to see.

[lioness39]

12:15 PM on 09/17/2010

Fanned!

[Genevieve Hannon]

04:08 AM on 09/30/2010

Helping animals helps people. We are not mutually exclusive.

[seajewel]

10:48 AM on 09/30/2010

Exactly ! Fanned & Faved One example is who wants to raise kids in an environment full of cruelty and lacking empathy and respect for the feelings of others...10 billion factory farm animals living horrific lives, in cages, each year in our country alone is a heavy psychic load for others to carry who are compassionate towards others.

[HerrMonk]

02:49 PM on 09/15/2010

So what am I supposed to do with the pelt after I've cleaned and butchered the animal?

Just throw it away?

[Joseph J Schuler]

01:00 PM on 09/15/2010

Nothing would convince me better to buy fur, than the lamebrained antics of PETA. An organization organized and funded by people who's ultimate desire is the dissapearance of mankind so, it cant mess up nature.

[sgmorr]

01:10 PM on 09/15/2010

How much fur do you wear?

[billjones224]

01:41 PM on 09/15/2010

Where in San Francisco do you live? I can make ridi.culous statements too!

[Joseph J Schuler]

11:48 PM on 09/15/2010

None, actually, but I may get some just spite PETA.

[SrAN]

12:57 PM on 09/15/2010

I agree with this protest but overall don't really agree with PETA. They seem to be out of touch with many things, not realizing that sometimes they can do more harm than good. I believe that there should always exist a balance between humans and the earth. I also believe that many humans wish to tip that balance to their advantage, letting earth lose out. When that starts to happen then we need to protest and protect animals and all wildlife. But not everyone who uses animal by products is evil and out to destroy everything as PETA makes it sound.

[zimbabwechic]

11:55 AM on 09/15/2010

Ugh PETA annoys me on a whole other level, their tactics are such a turn off and I'm always left wondering if they care about human beings as much as they care about animals.

[Tara V]

02:22 AM on 09/17/2010

AMEN!

[seajewel]

10:55 AM on 09/30/2010

You know it's not just animals vs. humans with them. A lot of what they say contradicts their principals concerning other animals as well, like pit bulls they want to ban and other shelter animals they put to sleep. I appreciate what they have done for animals, but prefer other organizations to them.