Julie Bishop has ruffled feathers with PETA.
The former foreign minister, 67, attended the first day of Australian Fashion Week on Monday wearing a $2,000 black Rachel Gilbert cocktail dress with ostrich feather embellishments on the sleeves.
The animal rights organization harshly criticized the 67-year-old woman for her clothing.
In the note, they told Bishop that “feathers are as cruel as fur, a fact that led Melbourne Fashion Week to ban wild bird feathers from its catwalks.”
“It’s great that you’re defending Australian fashion, but feathers are a misstep,” PETA added.
Julie Bishop has ruffled feathers with PETA after wearing a $2000 black Rachel Gilbert cocktail dress at Australian Fashion Week on Monday.
In a letter to Bishop, the organization stated that “feathers are as cruel as fur, a fact that led Melbourne Fashion Week to ban wild bird feathers from its catwalks.”
They went on to detail PETA’s recent investigations into ostrich farms.
“Ostriches do not molt, so their feathers are plucked while they are still alive or removed after slaughter,” they stated.
PETA then suggested an alternative for Bishop.
They went on to detail PETA’s recent investigations into ostrich farms. “Ostriches do not molt, so their feathers are plucked while they are still alive or removed after slaughter,” they stated.
“As the ever-charming Pamela Anderson demonstrated on the Met Gala red carpet, natural pampas grass is a glamorous enhancement to the feathers of cruelly slaughtered birds,” the letter said, referring to the headdress Anderson wore at the event. trendy in New York this year. .
“We urge you, as a leader and role model, to showcase only sustainable and cruelty-free brands and hope to see you sporting vegan looks in the future,” the letter concludes.
Recently there has been a move away from decorative feathers in the fashion industry.
Online fashion platforms such as The Iconic and ASOS have committed to bans.
Australian brand Zhivago, favored by celebrities such as Gwen Stefani and Cardi B, is animal-free and carries the ‘PETA-Approved Vegan’ logo.
PETA – whose motto says, in part, that “animals are not ours to clothe” – opposes “speciesism,” a “human supremacist” worldview.
The animal rights organization then suggested an alternative for Bishop: “As the ever-charming Pamela Anderson demonstrated on the Met Gala red carpet, natural pampas grass is a glamorous enhancement to the feathers of cruelly slaughtered birds.”