Brooke Shields visited Denmark in March to act out her ‘little girl’s dream’: to design her own fur coat. The Hollywood star is thrilled with Kopenhagen Fur.
“Wearing fur may be associated with something grandmotherish. Something you wear when you visit the opera, or if you are a rock star and wears it inside out. But I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur“, says Brooke Shields.
The comment fell as the American actress visited Kopenhagen Fur’s creative workshop, Kopenhagen Studio early in March. Here she began designing her own mink coat made of the best Danish fur skins. Brooke Shields chose to work with the short-haired, black mink.
“Brooke Shields will be proud to be an exponent of the beautiful Danish fur skins in the U.S. She thinks that Kopenhagen Fur is very unique”, says Kopenhagen Studio’s Partnership & Alliance manager Natia Linneman and adds that the star has been intrigued by the way Kopenhagen Fur is organized and how the company centrally supports disease control and quality on fur farms etc.
Fur is a little girl’s dream
“The gain for the Danish fur farmers is that well-established people are crazy about the product“, says Natia Linneman.
The visit of Brooke Shields, who at the age of 15 became famous for her leading part in the movie The Blue Lagoon, was arranged in February during New York Fashion Week, where Kopenhagen Fur, in cooperation with the design house J. Mendel, had a major event in the city. J. Mendel also helps Brooke Shields to design her coat.
“I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep“, says Brooke Shields, who calls it a little girl’s dream to be able to design her own fur garment.
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Doesn’t she live in L.A.? What the hell does she need to be wearing fur for? This is disgusting.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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this doesn’t surprise me at all, the woman has become a shill for pretty much anythingReport this comment as spam or abuse
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I wonder which brand of disposable underwear BS is going to promote when she gets a little older.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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I’ve never seen anything more disgusting than the first image.
Anyone who gets their rocks off hunting for the sake of it, is sick in the head.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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I can’t even bring myself to touch a fur coat let alone wear one. They disgust me. Just like people who buy/own them disgust me.
I would not be bragging that I have one!Report this comment as spam or abuse
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@Constance: Really? It just sounds creepy and anthropomorphizes in a bad way. It sounds like a short step to justifying doing anything to animals, to “punish” them for being “bad souls.”
I was raised by a veterinarian, and he told it straight: these are living creatures, worthy of respect. The law of jungle may mean creatures eat each other (as we eat animals) but we have an obligation to be respectful and avoid cruelty. This definitely included not wasting food, and avoiding unnecessary killing and causing unnecessary pain.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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I agree with everything you said, Kierelle. That “dominion” crap has just got to stop. Lest we forget, our dominion is responsible for an oil spill that BP must not have ever considered possible, or they would have better plans/technology to fix it. Their resources are enormous, and this is the best they can do? Good lookin’ out, BP.
I literally have no idea what Brooke was thinking. The photo with all of the pelts is just grotesque, and she will have a very, very hard time living it down, if she ever does. She would have been waaaaaaay better off if she had just been photographed with the finished coat. Something about the lifelike and yet thoroughly dead pelts is so much more disturbing than a coat, even though that is disturbing, too. I just can’t picture a finished coat frolicking in the wild like I can with a pelt.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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The funniest thing about the comments are the people who have “cute doggie” avatars and rave about their fancy fur coats.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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@ Constance. No there isn’t a generation of children who are repulsed by their pet’s fur, but pets are ALIVE and they aren’t killed for vanity and status, which is what the fur industry is all about and using pet fur as a valid argument is invalid.
It’s one thing having a leather bag, and using it long term, but quite another being a collector, for the sole reason of validating one’s status.
Anyway, the hunters who exist today are the final relics of an uncivilised portion of humankind. There are only two types of hunters today: desperate poachers who kill to sell and feed their families, and wealthy white hunters who couldn’t give a rat’s behind about anything other than their own gratification.
And it’s fine to desire to sate an itch, but using pathetic arguments to justify it, is inexcusable, insulting and moronic.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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I saw some crazy people on ebay selling wild cat coats as faux and vintage fur coats, but the coat cut looked completely modern, and you could clearly see the pelt stitching in the photographs. And they were selling multiple coats where only spots or stripes varied. This is obviously some farm that slaughters tigers and other wild cats for fur coats.
I reported them to fish and wild life investigaton.
I saw a documentary on Animal Planet, about Fish and Wildlife investigation into a ring of evil people that were buying up zoo tigers some with babies and would execute them for pelts and stuffed animal collectors, in the back of a van. I know there is special place in hell for people like that.
Anyway Brooke shields is obvioiusly hired by some fur company to promote fur coats. Look for her in the fall and winter catalogs shilling ugly fur coats. I can’t stand that money grubbin’ ho.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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why is fur so much worse than leather in people’s eyes? just because the hairs have not been shaved off? it’s still the same basic material. animal skin. what cows are less deserving to be felt sorry for than minks???
if you wear any kind of leather it’s ridiculous and hypocritical to bitch about fur.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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I can only think of three letters when reading these strange, Google Translator-sounding quotes:
WTF?Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Congratulations Brooke! Wear your coat with pride, and hopefully your daughter will too one day. With a little care fur can last for generations. As someone who’s family has roots in the Canadian fur business I take great pride in wearing my grandmother’s beautiful +50 year old mink.
Not that anyone will read this, but if you inherit fur, instead of keeping it you can either donate it to an animal rescue so they can give it to orphaned babies so that they can feel that they have a mom with them. Also, I know there are some groups that are accepting fur to help clean up the oil spills going on right now. Just in case you would rather be helpful instead of wear a carcass.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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I think Brooke Shields is a lovely woman and has every right to choose to wear fur. Good for her, her coat is lovely. I admire that she is a strong woman who makes up her own mind and I hope she withstands all the e bullying, she is a beautiful mature woman.
@birdgherl They skinned it alive???!!!??? That’s the most horrific thing I can imagine!
Omg, I spent five years being a strict vegetarian and I have two cats at home. I almost threw up just now picturing that!
Brooke is an idiot. I hate PETA. I think they are Eco-terrorists. But, in this case, I’ll put aside my issues with them and say that I hope they bring some full on crazy out of the woodwork with her. That first picture makes ME want to bring some full on crazy to this woman! Although, lol, that quote about her “following her kids to school” does make her sound like she’s already got a lot of her own crazy in her life.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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@Bellaluna, I’ve always wanted to know why animals are skinned alive, but have been too terrified to even bother looking at PETA’s information, because they horrify people with their graphic videos and I don’t want to watch their videos for that reason. I’m not a PETA fan for that reason,but at the same time I don’t believe that we need fur in this era (with all the textile technologies we have).Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Please don’t believe that rhetoric that animals are skinned alive. A live animal would be FAR too hard to skin. When anything dies, it takes a while for the nervous system to stop twitching. They call that the ‘death throws’. I am quite certain that is what you were seeing in that video. Is it pretty? No. But the animal is already dead and doesn’t feel anything anymore.
I am an animal lover, and an advocate for humane treatment, housing and euthanasia, and have been active in that area.
PETA has an agenda, and they use shock tactics to try and sway people’s opinions – to shock them into wanting to throw up even thinking about something. I have watched a man in his death throws after he broke his neck being thrown from his car. It wasn’t pretty. But he was already gone. We were feeling for a pulse the entire time, and there wasn’t one, although his body twitched for some time.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Whether or not you eat meat, Aspen, you alienate people when you tar everyone with the same brush. There is a difference between killing something in a terribly painful way and then wasting it and bringing about death quickly and using all of the parts. It is possible to abhor the suffering of animals and wasteful disrespect without being vegan.
It is true, too, that hunting does not necessarily equal cruelty, as a swift death from an unseen bullet is far less painful than a slow starvation or crippling injury from a busy roadway.
There are shades of gray. Cramming stray dogs into cages while their bones break from the weight of those on top of them, then skinning them to trim coat hoods is not the same as humanely killing a cow and wasting none of it.
Temple Grandin advocates for humane conditions, and has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of domestic animals on farms and feedlots. The black and white “just don’t use any animals” position does more harm than good.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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This news just disgusted me beyond words. I always liked her and now I find her repulsive. Every time I hear a story like this some one always starts to bash PETA in some way, at least they are trying to stop the cruelty against animals and to those who bash PETA why don’t you start caring about something other than yourselves for a change and do something positive in this world? And for Aspen and his/her comment-Hunters are some of the most active and effective animal welfare and environmental preservationists in the world.Are you kidding me? You hide out in the forest to find some innocent life to take away, you put them in pain then take the body home to display on your wall or feed your fat gut and you call that preservation? environmental? Twisted!Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Have you seen videos of Korean dog markets, dragging the dog on the ground and electrocuting it with electric prod, that poor dog, I never heard a dog scream like that, so it must be cruel. Now multiply that sound by thousands, and you get a fur farm.
There is also video on YouTube of Koreans boiling a large dog alive, and hanging dogs to the ceiling on a rope so that can slowly choke to death.
Boycott Korea and China, where they hate dogs and cats and torture them on a daily basis in unspeakable ways.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Brooke Shields is most likely unacquainted with the cruelty these animals endure. She could have avoided this embarrassment, had she read the undercover investigation into Scandinavian fur farms made in 2009 or watched the film at http://furstop.comReport this comment as spam or abuse
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WHAT? how disappointing but what can you expect from a self absorbed rich person who has had a glam life handed to her since she was a child, poor baby has some issues wah, she has had everything she ever wanted and more than she needs and stills has a charmed life, why would she care or even consider THE LIVES OF INNOCENT ANIMALS TORTURED AND KILLED BY THOSE WHO SKIN ANIMAL ALIVE AND ALL SORTS OF HORRIBLE THINGS TO MAKE THESE “LITTLE GIRLS DREAM COAT” HOW SICKENING! BROOK SHIELDS SHAME ON YOU!Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Very disappointing!
I have lost all repect for Brooke. I can’t believe she is endorsing fur
Julia,
I think you misunderstood my meaning. I am vegan, but I don’t tar everyone with the same brush by any stretch and I am a huge supporter of hunters. I know that there are hunters out there who trophy hunt, and I find that disgusting. MOST hunters, however, don’t do this. I abstain from meat and dairy produced by factory farms, and I find it easiest to do this by remaining vegan all the time.
I have no objection to people eating animals. I have serious moral and religious objections to people purchasing animal products that come out of our industry slaughterhouses.
There are only one or two places in the United States where anyone uses the entire cow or butchers it humanely. If you believe otherwise, you are sorely mistaken or misled.
And, yes, they do skin and/or process MANY animals alive. This fact is documented in many, many books and articles and investigative reports along with first-hand accounts from countless slaughterhouse workers.
I don’t expect the entire world to go vegan. I sure wish they would, but I don’t condemn meat-eaters. What I condemn is the refusal to self-educate because not knowing makes everyone feel better about what they’re promoting when they consume meat, the hypocrisy of industrial farmed meat-eaters casting proverbial stones at fur-wearers, and the same hypocrisy that allows industrial meat-eaters to disdain and slander hunting practices.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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BROOKE IS STILL A GREAT PERSON. To wear a fur it’s fine for other’s. What i don’t understand how PETA would do things like that single out BROOKE SHIELDS. It creates HATES and BARRIERS among people. The organization should work with others instead of blaming a person. I find that worst. To be against to something means it will close others rights too. A lot of people are loving fur.
Congratulations, Brooke! I’m sure the end product will be very beautiful.
I hope the desings don’t stop with just coats.
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it is very good share,thanks,and i like this blog
Love the idea and you are right, every girl wants a fur and nothing, but nothing, beats real fur. You look fabulous by the way. X
lol she is amazing!!
Well done Brooke, enjoy your dream and let nobody spoil it for you….
Everyone who thinks the fur industry is nice to the fuzzy little animals go watch the videos on FURISDEAD.com and the cruel way those animals are skinned ALIVE! The excuse is that the skin comes off of them easier when they are alive. They are screaming and live for up to 10 to 15 minutes after being skinned, suffering and gasping for air.
Anyone who doesn’t think that this is CRUEL and UNNECESSARY is without a conscious. There is absolutely NO reason whatsoever to wear this in modern times.
She is a complete douchebag for doing this and is now forever on many peoples’ shit list. What an absolute moron she is.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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Most who decry fur don’t understand that it was VERY ECOLOGICAL! They decry fur because they are engaging in a form of class warfare that has nothing to do with animals. Way to go Brooke Shields! I can’t wait to see the coat and I will buy one for my wife.
Oh. My. Gosh.
Brooke Shields has always come off a bit crazy too me…but this is insane. I did an English report on the fur industry, and nearly threw up. Let’s she if she endorse’s those too. And for all those people talking about eating meat and shizz and hunting?…those have nothing to do with fur. Sure, sometimes they shock cows to death. But they never stick ‘em up an animals behind! I eat meat. I love chicken. I eat beef. I love beef. I do not hunt, though I may try venison. I find it insane to kill and animal just for they fun of it. I don’t kill things for competition. This is 2010. Not 1510. But all the things I eat are killed in a fast, non-painful way. Minks are treated horribly before they are killed, and baby minks are killed when they are only 6 months. So seriously thinking about it, you are paying thousands of bucks to endorse animal slaughter. So what, the fur feels nice when you wear it! The fur felt nice on that mink when he wore it! Buy a sheepskin rug. Buy a leather coat. But dear God, don’t buy a mink.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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goodto see you make postings on this issue, I should bookmark this web site. Just keep up the good job.
Rob, fur is not ecological in the slightest. It’s actually a biohazardous industry that use lots of environmentally harmful toxics like chrome.
Great article. Brooke, you will look beautiful in the coat.
Brooke Shields has absolutely no regard for animals even though she has been continuously educated in the cruel methods used to make fur coats. She is fully aware that animals are skinned alive, and tortured beyond imagination. Brooke believes that wearing fur is beautiful, but in reality it makes her ugly inside and out. Any person who wears fur is contributing to enormous suffering. FUR IS EVIL!!!
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@Buy_Latisse Get rid of that fur-Loving spokesperson of yours and we’ll talk.
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@HarpSealsOrg http://iftfblog.com/?p=212 Brooke Shields is a fur hag…as a kid I wanted to save animals, she just wanted to wear them?
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Congratulations to Brook Shields! Very interesting article!
If people complain about fur it is because they do not have the an educated perception about fur. Get out from your fake plastic trees and into real nature. You’ll figure it out eventually.
Well done, Brooke, actually quite brave …..but a victory for sanity. Fur is resuming it’s place and women are once more feeling able to enjoy its beauty (and practicality).
Kuddos to Brooke!! Fur is beautiful and if a person desires to wear it they should not worry about what the idiot PETA freaks think!!! Real fur rocks!
I’d love to design the full length mink of my dreams! C’mon, Kopenhagen Fur, please invite me, too. Fur is soooo elegant and glamourous. I just love it, and I’ll wear it ’til my dying day.
http://iftfblog.com/?p=212 think about it, when murder becomes fashion as a species we can’t go much lower!
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