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"Paint Panthers" Bring Fur Message Home to Donna Karan
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Earlier this week, a group calling itself the "Paint Panthers" e-mailed my friend Michael McGraw, who works out of PETA’s New York office, to inform him that they had visited Donna Karan's home in The Hamptons and done a little "redecorating," stenciling "Donna Karan: Bunny Butcher" and painting a rabbit on the pavement with the message, "I don't want to be a handbag." The handwriting leaves a little to be desired, but the message is fairly plain.
Donna Karan, who was visited at home in February by an animal activist who walked into her living room and cued up a DVD of fur farm footage, is under fire for her refusal to remove fur from her collections. You can write to her about this lapse in judgment here.
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Comments
Thats Great! Maybe that heartless woman will stop using fur!
Posted by: karla | April 9, 2008 10:15 AM
Great job Paint Panthers!!
Posted by: Jason Levy | April 9, 2008 11:01 AM
Awsome. I wish I had the guts to do things like that.
Posted by: marie | April 9, 2008 11:41 AM
Happy scrubbing Donna, you scrubber! haha
Posted by: John Carmody | April 9, 2008 12:06 PM
Awsome. I wish I had the guts to do things like that.
Posted by: marie | April 9, 2008 01:19 PM
I would have loved to have been a part of this.
Get a clue Donna Karan.
PAINT PANTHERS, YOU RULE!!!!!
Peace!!!!!
Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | April 9, 2008 01:58 PM
yes.. the message is evident and plain for all to see..or in this case for whoever uses that drive.. which may incl..her friends.. her guests?.. presuming it's non-rain 'washaway-able'.. and is stuck there on the tarmac 'forevermore'..
how embarrassing.. she's gonna get tired of seeing and reading that msg each and every time she goes home..that's for sure..
I wish Paint panthers would do the same 'paint tarmac makeover treatment' also for Gaultier, Fendi, Escada.. etc and all the greedy for profits, horrid stone hearted and heartless others..
ps. wouldn't blood-red paint have been more appropriate ? .. anyway I hope she gets the msg..
Posted by: Yuenf | April 9, 2008 02:20 PM
Hey Donna Karan - it is time to come out of stone age now! Take a chance to stop this bloody criminal abuse for dirty money-making now!
Posted by: FREE TIBET | April 9, 2008 02:26 PM
Wonderful!
Posted by: Brittany | April 10, 2008 12:43 PM
...... looks like something I would do hahahaha this is a great Idea she got what she had comming to her!
Posted by: Marco | April 10, 2008 01:18 PM
Next time the paint panthers do this...keep the rest of us informed! They should hit Beyonce and JLo's pads next!!! Hell, I'll bring the lemonade!
Posted by: MeL | April 10, 2008 02:56 PM
Donna Don't Karin
Posted by: Bird | April 10, 2008 05:30 PM
I never knew j-lo and beyonce wear fur!!! what a bunch of ghetto slime!!!!
Posted by: bobby shaidaie | April 10, 2008 08:15 PM
Thank You Paint Panthers! Way to kick some arse! Best wishes to you all.
"Bunny Power!"
xoxoxo
Bix
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Posted by: Bix | April 10, 2008 09:36 PM
Paint Donna next! I'll happily write a check to the first one to "paintball" her (in an eco-friendly way, of course) in public!
Posted by: Mary | April 11, 2008 04:37 AM
Donna Karan is a piece of crap!!!!
Posted by: Sal | April 11, 2008 06:34 AM
Maybe this ignorant woman will listen when her millions of $ begin to fall. STOP THIS WOMAN NOW!!!! It makes me sick.
Posted by: Jennifer Dunn | April 11, 2008 06:43 PM
DKNY...hmm maybe it should stand for
DKNY:
"Don't Know Nothing Yet"
After all, Donna Karen's showing how stupid she really is. Well I'm glad this was revealed, since I found out, I have thrown out anything I own by her and promise never to buy again. I am telling my friends to avoid her items too. I really hate her now.
-Juliet
Posted by: Juliet | April 11, 2008 11:56 PM
Actually, I forgot to add earlier...it's one thing to lack intelligence and be ignorant, but once the the truth is shown, there are no excuses. Well, this really shows her intellect level and CLASSLESS character. She is pure trash.
-Juliet
Posted by: Juliet | April 11, 2008 11:59 PM
When they put on fur what do they see in the mirror. Do they imagine that they look beautiful? They are ugly on the inside as well as on the outside. Paint Pathers have my full support. I will now tell as many people as I can about Donna Karan, Jennifer Lopez,Beyonce and fur.
Posted by: mary stark | April 13, 2008 02:43 AM
With all your meditation and yoga you still can't see that killing animals for their fur is just cruel, abusive and wrong?
You could be a leader for other designers and fashionistas by getting the message and having the courage to spread the word: KIllING ANIMALS FOR THEIR FUR IS WRONG! NO MORE FUR!
Posted by: april lang | April 13, 2008 04:08 PM
Well done guys, next time make it nastier as she is one nasty nasty women and industry. dont buy any of her prodcuts, esp her perfume it smells lke rotting flesh. More money in the bank for you less for her. Go Panthers
Posted by: kayj | April 14, 2008 03:57 AM
Well done painters, job well done.
Posted by: kj | April 14, 2008 04:14 AM
hi there!
well i am a fashion designer as well and i can tell you that if we are using fur, we aren´t the ones who are torturing/killing the animals and even if we dont use them, this people are still killing them! i´m not saying ipm in fvor of that but, come on! you don´t have to give us such a hard time for using fur!! besides, there are other -much more classy and civilized- ways to tell her off from using fur... i guess doing stuff like that just makes us -designers- angry and it is just not helping your cause, is it?
i´m so very sorry to be the antagonist here but... someone had to raise his voice for dear Donna!!
ciao...
Daniel
Posted by: daniel broussard | April 15, 2008 05:53 PM
Daniel,
Hello! Being a fashion designer must be such a cool career. ;)
Sadly, folks who buy fur are actually doing more damage than those who torture the mink and other animals.
For example, if I buy elephant tusks, the money goes to poachers who may very well be poverty stricken and desperate to support their families for survival.
Although I am only handing out money, I have a good life and I have many choices for material goods - but the poachers are often desperate for money and feel they have no choice.
The same is true with people who run fur farms - they are not Hollywood wealthy and they will do whatever gets them money.
Unlike yourself and many other talented designers, these folks have little education and don't have the decent life that you and I enjoy.
I promise you, if you were face to face with one of these animals, you would not be capable of torturing and slaughtering it unless you were extremely desperate for money.
I agree with you about the tactics, though. From the bottom of my heart I hope you will consider it from the animal's persepective, not from those humans who may offend you. ;)
Peace!
Posted by: Maya, CVT | April 16, 2008 12:52 PM
daniel broussard: everybody involved in fur is guilty in exactly the same way - there is no excuse in using it for fashion! you are as guilty as the producer because if there is no demand for it - there is no production!
Posted by: Avatar | April 17, 2008 04:53 AM
DEAR DONNA,
PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE TORTURE ANIMALS MUST ENDURE TO BECOME SHOES, CLOTHES, OR PURSES.
WHY DO THESE INNOCENT CREATURES HAVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE SOMEONE WANTS TO ADORN THEMSELVES IN FUR.
PLEASE RECOGNIZE THE SUFFERING AND TORTURE THAT WONDERFUL ANIMAL MUST ENDURE.
KATHRYN KOBOR
Posted by: KATHRYN KOBOR | April 18, 2008 07:00 PM
Her refusal to retract fur from her fashion line is still not reason enough for those "painters" to get personal. What they did is an ugly thing and should not be applauded in this manner. There must be another way to get the message across. A more democratic way.
Posted by: eloise | April 27, 2008 04:49 AM
Daniel Broussard: You must be retarded. Where there is demand, there will be supply. You can skin them yourself, or you can pay someone else to. It doesn't matter in the end.
Posted by: Patrice | May 3, 2008 01:29 AM