New York Post
FUR FLIES OVER CINDY'S CATWALK
AFTER eight long years of being touted as a spokesmodel for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Cindy Crawford has finally had enough of the guerrilla group.
For her catwalk comeback on Monday, the mother of two modeled for designer Roberto Cavalli wearing a fur coat - causing shock and dismay in the PETA camp.
In 1994, Crawford appeared with fellow supermodels Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Elle Macpherson, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss in PETA advertisements swearing they would "rather go naked than wear fur." In the print ads, Crawford was wearing only a faux fur hat.
"The era of supermodels is over, a thing of the past," Lisa Lange, a PETA rep, slammed. "Cindy seemed very anti-fur, and in my heart I find it hard to believe she's turned her back on the animals."
But Crawford's rep, Annett Wolf, said the dark-haired stunner never agreed to be in the 1994 ads and never believed in their credo.
"It's time to set this straight," Wolf charged. "A long time ago, Cindy did a favor for Todd Oldham. Todd had designed a fake fur hat, and she modeled it."
But, Wolf added, the photo was re-used by PETA in a magazine ad.
The public was led to believe Cindy worked with the group and believed in its animals-first philosophy, Wolf said, but "Cindy has never been associated with PETA."
"This is not fair to Cindy," Wolf added. "[PETA] is not her cause. When she is asked to model something - she does. That is her job. She has been really nice about the PETA ad, but it's just not her thing."
Still PETA reps insist Crawford is taking a step backward.
"Designing with fur is a thing of the past. Even P. Diddy's collection this year was fur-free," Lange said. "If the fur she wore was real, it is very sad for us and the animals. Those minks were killed by either having their necks broken or by being electrocuted."
This is not the first time a model has gotten in trouble with PETA for wearing fur down the catwalk. In 1997, Campbell walked in a Fendi show clad in fur and PETA promptly fired her as a spokeswoman.
"We fired Naomi Campbell as a PETA spokesperson because she so blatantly reversed her position. Naomi seemed cash-strapped and crazy when she started modeling fur again," Lange charged.
Campbell, for her part, insisted that she wore fur in the Fendi show because she, too, was doing her job. She later claimed the group "took advantage" of her. |
