I am confused about why anti-fur celebrities are prepared to wear fake fur. In photos, if the fake is any good, it looks like real fur. Therefore, in print or on film, the vegetarian, vegan or otherwise concerned celeb appears to be wearing fur... Glamour, sophistication - you get the drift.
Obviously, they can take comfort from remembering nothing was harmed in the making of their garment. But when the celeb in question knows full well that their image is worth thousands, if not millions to advertisers, that what they wear is thought to influence the market, then the benefit of saving a rabbit or two for their own coat is surely cancelled out by the boost they give to the general idea of fur as cool.
And so to Kate Winslet. According to this week's Heat magazine, she was cross to discover that what she thought was fake fur worn for her recent Vanity Fair cover shoot turns out to have been real.
She could always have said that she didn't want anything to do with fur at all.
