Film: Songbirds & Skinheads

And you can forget about your grandmother’s floor-length jaw-dropper. This trend has nothing to do with the fur coats that hang dormant for 360 evenings a year. These days, fur is more Jennifer Lopez than Brooke Astor. More happy hour than high tea.

Designers are trimming casual clothes with fur and dying it in shocking colors. Fur accents or trim can be found on skirts, sweaters, cloth coats, shoes and boots, handbags, shrugs, and scarves. Then there are the envelope-pushing designers who are creating actual clothing with fur: Fendi has a knee-grazing sable skirt, and Versace boasts a white mink tank-top (a splendid perversion of form and function). Mink now comes in electric blue and pale pink. One finds fur covering even the most banal objects. Fendi, again, produced a fox-covered wheelie (the popular carry-on suitcase that rankles airline crews).

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And you can forget about your grandmother’s floor-length jaw-dropper. This trend has nothing to do with the fur coats that hang dormant for 360 evenings a year. These days, fur is more Jennifer Lopez than Brooke Astor. More happy hour than high tea.

Designers are trimming casual clothes with fur and dying it in shocking colors. Fur accents or trim can be found on skirts, sweaters, cloth coats, shoes and boots, handbags, shrugs, and scarves. Then there are the envelope-pushing designers who are creating actual clothing with fur: Fendi has a knee-grazing sable skirt, and Versace boasts a white mink tank-top (a splendid perversion of form and function). Mink now comes in electric blue and pale pink. One finds fur covering even the most banal objects. Fendi, again, produced a fox-covered wheelie (the popular carry-on suitcase that rankles airline crews).