Giorgio, you didn't!

This just in:

In July 2007, Giorgio Armani told Time Magazine that viewing PETA materials “convinced me not to use fur." However, according to PETA, Armani’s Fall 2008 collection included fur coats for babies, floral printed furs, fur-hemmed skirts and fur-trimmed jackets. The animal rights group has contacted celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and Glenn Close asking that they not wear Armani-designed clothes.

(courtesy wikipedia.org)

Floral-printed furs? Fur coats for babies? What sort of rich-get-richer-and-ever-more-obscene sort of world are we living in? Oh, yeah--this one:


When you can't count on vain, billionaire fashion designers ($5 billion, to be exact) to keep their word, on whom can you count?

Well, PETA, I guess...I mean, they did make two phone calls to help their cause...

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Warning: Scary Photos Ahead

I forget how I found this one online, but I must say I like their politics more than their costumes:


For some reason, it reminds me of a billboard I saw in Michigan several years ago:


I guess both images are just extremely unsettling, especially because the sun is out. Trust me: it doesn't matter how long you stare at them, there is no comfort to be found, only fear.

Interesting that part of what makes them both so frightening is their whiteness, not their darkness. Is white the new black?

Somebody alert Giorgio Armani before it's too late--he must have this information before anyone else. While you're at it, give him some money from that stupid Social Security fund--trust me, Giorgio Armani S.P.A. needs it far more than we do, America. They are too big to fail.

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