Kylie Jenner’s controversial lion costume has been protected by PETA.
The reality star, 25, caused a storm among animal lovers and fans by wearing a black velvet dress with a large, lifelike – and fake – lion face at the Schiaparelli Haute Couture show on Monday (23.01.23) to mark the start of Paris Fashion Week. Couture.
He was criticized by some fans for promoting hunting, with one fan saying “Meats are not trophies” and others saying they were offended by the idea that the title “could be real”.
But animal rights activists have now defended the look, which inspired Schiaparelli’s “tricolor heads” collection, which was also worn by Naomi Campbell and Irina Shayk at Schiaparelli’s Paris Fashion Week event on Monday.
Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said: “Kylie, Naomi and Irina’s looks celebrate the beauty of wild animals and can be a voice against the hunting of giants, where lions and wolves are torn apart to satisfy human pride. .
“We encourage everyone to adopt 100 percent cruelty-free practices that reflect human intelligence and prevent animal suffering.”
Ingrid also encouraged Kylie and other celebrities to remove certain fabrics from their clothing.
He added that they need to “develop this skill” to “not exclude sheep with blood from their wool and cooked live maggots in their cocoons”.
Along with the lion head worn by Kylie, Schiaparelli’s spring couture collection includes clothes with real tiger and wolf heads in a nod to the three beasts of Dante’s ‘Inferno’.
Kylie emphasized that the lion head is “fake” and “manmade” in her Instagram post showing off the outfit.
In two posts on Instagram on the account of the fashion house, Schiaparelli defended her designs by saying that the animal heads in the Paris show were made from “handmade foam” and “wool and silk”, and “were hand painted to look like. as life as we can, to celebrate the glory of nature”.
A caption on the page says: “NO ANIMALS HURTED IN THE MAKING OF THIS.”