Despite animal rights activists protesting, fur was a bit all over the place on the Milan Fashion Week runways, from Fendi (obviously) to Prada, Marni, Versace, Emilio Pucci, Roberto Cavalli, Blumarine and many more.
In the meantime, in New York and London we saw Rodarte and Preen opting to board the sci-fi spaceship and going the Star Wars way. Yet, funnily enough, fur and Star Wars were already a trend in 1977, as this editorial also proves.
Entitled "The Force of Fur", this funny editorial for Vogue (spotted on this site) featured models surrounded by assorted Star Wars characters - from monsters from the cantina to stormtroopers, Jawas stealing jewellery (well, they dealt in "used metal" as the editorial highlighted...), and, obviously, C-3PO and Darth Vader.
Yes, it's all a coincidence, we know, but if you're planning of investing into your education thousands of Euros/Dollars/Pounds a year and become a fashion designer, you'd better rethinking your plan and wonder if it weren't better to just buy a lot of old fashion magazine, invest in vintage pieces and then copy and re-vomit the lot.
If that's what fashion wants nowadays, why should you be investing in developing your creativity?
In the meantime, people who are into creativity, art, Star Wars, crafts and embroidery, but who aren't into fashion, may want to check out instead the Coruscant Tapestry by Aled Lewis.
Currently exhibited at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, this 30 feet hand-made piece is inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and tells the entire Star Wars saga.
Buying it may set you back $20,000 - more or less the same amount of money a designer fur may cost you these days. But if you think about it, furs do not feature all the main Star Wars characters and best moments of the saga nor quotes in Aurebesh lettering. So, if you can afford it, leave the fur behind and go for the tapestry...
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