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[tigerrouge]

Yes! I have a good amount of faux fur already, I agree that the textures are improving all the time, and you don't really have to worry about storage or damage in the same way as natural skins. I was attached to the vintage furs for the feel of them - but there's nothing glamorous about looking good but smelling bad.

 

[gius]

Is there such thing as a fur that is fairly thin? in terms of height/pile.
Or maybe no one will want that...

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ If you look at what J Mendel has done (try a spring collection), you'll see examples ...

 

[gius]

thank you^

i believe this top is one...

& here's a thicker one

style.com

The last crimson, it's like a velvet almost you could say
I jsut realise I have a rug/carpet/blanket like this... 100% acrylic and feels nice. I don't know if it will change when I wash it.

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[j´adore dior]

^Are you talking about shaved furs gius??

I remember for fall 2006 Cavalli showed "silk mink", it was so thinly shaved it looked like fabric.

Not so long ago there was a J Mendel coat up for auction at ebay, each piece of skin was hand stitched onto organza, I saved the pics but I run out of storage space here so I cannot upload them

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ We recently expanded everyone's storage, you should have space now ... if you don't, please leave me a profile comment about it.

 

[gius]

yes please, would love to see it
esp the inside

yes i guess i mean shaved furs...
what do you guys think of it???


do you know why it was stitched onto organza?

 

[Stamoholic]

^ Not to sound like an insane PETA person, but I wonder about the disgust that people would react with if Gilles Mendel shaved off all his hair and made a coat out of it.

I agree the statement, " I'm wearing a shaved fur coat" only evoked the response... " ew" in me, unlike fur to which my response is usually rather neutral, although not loving.

 

[gius]

I think 'trimmed' and 'sheared' are also terms used to mean the same thing.
cut...

it's not fur that's been shaved and the 'waste' to be turned into a coat like you describe with Giles
rather it is just a fur that's been cut down.

like a bob turned into a crew cut.

 

[nicole-marie]

I love the fur that has been shown during New York fashion week. If only people wouldn't look at me as if I were ******** for wearing it in Southern California...

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ Not to sound like an insane PETA person, but I wonder about the disgust that people would react with if Gilles Mendel shaved off all his hair and made a coat out of it.

I agree the statement, " I'm wearing a shaved fur coat" only evoked the response... " ew" in me, unlike fur to which my response is usually rather neutral, although not loving.

What do you think wool is? Shaving an animal does embarrass them when they're around other animals who haven't been shaved yet, but I suspect they'd far rather be embarrassed than have their pelts removed.

The Victorians loved hacking off locks of one another's hair and wearing them in lockets, or making mourning jewelry, err, after the fact I posted some examples I think in our Neo Gothic thread.

 

[Stamoholic]

^ I was more making an observation on the connotation's of the term " shaved" in refrence to fur. I wasn't saying it's wrong to shave an animal, lol, especially if it's an alternative to slaughtering it.

My statement about Mendel was really just an amused musing.

 

[gius]

Hm that is an interesting idea...
Turning the fur into thread --I wonder why it doesn't seem common

About sheep
they are also skinned. Then you call the patch of fur a "pelt"
But sheep can also be shaved and the hair turned to yarn

 

[goregeous]

^ Not to sound like an insane PETA person, but I wonder about the disgust that people would react with if Gilles Mendel shaved off all his hair and made a coat out of it.

LOL I remember watching one of the previous seasons of project runway and one of the contestants made some pieces using real human hair and I thought to myself that it was really cool looking and I'd totally wear it

 

[gius]

This is made from human hair. 100%

Designers at the Artidjana company used 165ft of blonde hair
in the dress which was modelled at a fashion show in the capital Zagreb.

ananova.com

 

[Crying Diamonds]

I like it.
It's an interesting point as well - is it macabre? If so, why?

 

[fashionista-ta]

There's an article in the current Allure about "temple hair," the best-quality human hair in the world, whose price is on a juggernaut driven by the boldface types who love their extensions. Women make pilgrimages to this spot in India and there's ritual headshaving. One of the women they talked to made the pilgrimage because their cow (from which the whole family makes their living) got sick, they prayed, and it got well. So she went & sacrificed her hair. She'd been growing her hair her entire life, and it was down to her thighs (you have to have a gene for that, btw, otherwise it just grows to about your waist & stops). When they told the women how much people pay for hair extensions, and translated it into rupees, the women laughed aloud. It's an interesting article ... oh, and one of the most interesting parts is that before the extension craze, they sold it for mattress stuffing.

Personally I cannot imagine having some other person's hair woven into mine

 

[j´adore dior]

Hm that is an interesting idea...
Turning the fur into thread --I wonder why it doesn't seem common

Well it isn´t common but it does exist, Saga and Fendi developed Fur thread some years ago matching cashmere with loose fox fur, I saw it and it was pretty interesting, maybe some of the knitted pieces from Fendi´s fall collection are made with that thread and we do not even notice it.

I assume you would wanna see it, I saw it in a cone, but it looked something like this:

I am not saying that dress was made with fur thread though, I think I resemble it because of its colour, but it was a thin, hairy thread, not as soft as one could assume though.

 

[gius]

softgrey was talking about fur yarn once.. i am wondering if it still has the skin on it, or if it is just the hair spun into thread (like sheep's wool spun into wool thread).

do you think if it is made into thread it is not as soft as a skin/pelt?

here is another look with fur yarn by Fendi

men.style.com
from fall 2008

 

[fashionista-ta]

"Furblend" sweaters, sweaterdresses, etc. are quite common, they usually have angora, which is rabbit, right? I guess it can be rabbit or goat ... I'm sure someone here will know more or have a label to check I was under the impression it was rabbit. You can kind of see the little hairs as I recall ... it's really too warm for it here, so I've gotten rid of all of mine.