A fashion house says no animals were harmed in the making of a dress featuring an ultra-realistic lion’s head seen on Kylie Jenner’s shoulder and on the catwalk at Paris fashion week.
Jenner She arrived at the Schiaparelli couture show in Paris wearing a dress from the designer’s collection featuring a faux lion’s head.
The dress, designed by Schiaparelli, sparked accusations of promoting cruelty to animals and glorifying trophy hunting, but some animal rights activists supported the collection.
Later, Irina Shayk modeled an almost identical version of the dress on the catwalk.
Also seen at the show were dressed in a faux taxidermy snow leopard and a wolf modeled by Naomi Campbell.
Schiaparelli posted a video of Jenner on Instagram, detailing the materials used to make the lion: “Hand sculpted foam, wool and silk faux fur…hand painted to look as lifelike as possible.”
The brand added in all capital letters: “NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED TO MAKE THIS LOOK.”
But Carrie Johnson, an animal rights advocate and wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, described the designs as “grim” and wrote on Instagram: “Real or fake this just promotes trophy hunting. Yuck.”
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A model wears a snow leopard creation as part of Schiaparelli Haute Couture’s Spring-Summer 2023 collection. Photo: AP
‘Where there is a will, there is a way’
However, the animal rights charity PETA, which named Ms Johnson its “person of the year” for 2020, has come to the defense of false appearances.
In a statement, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told Sky News: “Kylie’s look celebrates the beauty of lions and can be a statement against trophy hunting, in which lion families are torn apart. to satisfy human egoism”.
“These fabulously innovative three-dimensional animal heads show that where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
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Kylie Jenner poses for a photo in the faux lion dress. Photo: AP
Despite PETA’s stance, many people expressed their displeasure with Schiaparelli’s designs on the brand’s Instagram page.
One commenter wrote: “No matter how you justify it to your models and celebrities: fake animal couture is a big deal with implications you don’t understand… Although NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED, the concept promotes the use of animals for fashion and a disgusting out-of-touch mentality that the elite continue to suffer from.”
Another comment, which has received thousands of likes, read: “We need to stop showing animals as a luxury.”
‘products’. They may be made of foam, but these are endangered species that have historically been slaughtered to turn their skins into clothing.”
However, there were those who came out in defense of the brand, with some saying the designs were art and deliberately provocative.
One person wrote: “The goal of couture is to be an artistic performance, a concept, displayed on a person. It’s art, and the concept here is Dante’s Inferno.”
Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week runs through Thursday, January 26. Schiaparelli’s controversial show kicked off the event on Tuesday.
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