It's not like we are living in harsh times and uncivilized areas. So what's the point of civilized people making and using fur?

Posted by: bbr | December 3, 2008 05:26 PM

bbr, presumably Donna Karan is making money off of fur items, so that's her point in making and using fur. As long as she can make lots of money off of it, it's in her interests to do. If she loses her customers for those items and is losing money to produce them, then she will stop, plain and simple. The problem here is that apparently even with the protests, she has enough of a client base to keep making enough money on fur.

Posted by: Abby | December 4, 2008 10:36 AM

To clarify the point I made above, I am talking about why Donna Karan uses fur. Other people might look at factors other than the money, but it seems like she hasn't been motivated to stop using it based on other factors and will only be motivated to stop using it if it's not financially profitable to her do so.

Posted by: Abby | December 4, 2008 01:43 PM

I will buy Dk only when this fur cruelty
stops. Yes I bought alot.

Posted by: lainie press | December 5, 2008 10:26 AM

I work parttime at Macy's and if I strike up a good relationship with a customer, I let them know, under no uncertain terms, that she makes money by torturing animals--particularly rabbits, one of the sweetest, most endearing creatures on earth.

If they want to know more, I point them to PETA's website.
We turned away several shoppers in front of a local store in Sacramento on Fur Free Friday that insists on selling fur.

Never be afraid to speak up for those who can't.

Posted by: Susan T | December 5, 2008 06:36 PM

I love Nicole!

Posted by: Honore | December 16, 2008 10:38 AM

MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
Does Donna Karen have her won animals? What a woman of stupidity. Can she imagine her fur babies having this done to them. She must not own animals. I would say because she is an animal herself, but his would be giving her to much credit.

We need to stop this C^%& from making money doing this.

For those of you that don't know how this is done. Watch the video peta has provided and tell me you feel nothing.
We are in the 21 century. Use fake fur.
This is ridiculous.

STOP I will never buy your products if you continue to play the money is the root of all evil example.....

Posted by: kelly | December 16, 2008 03:48 PM

I won't buy Donna Karan again until they STOP selling & using fur. I will encourage all of my friends to do the same.

Posted by: Angie | December 16, 2008 04:33 PM

I have loved and worn Donna Karan's clothes for years. I even admired what I read about her, and the values she held. Now that I am aware that she continues to use fur in her collections, I will no longer buy any of her products, not clothing or anything else, until this stops. As an original member of the Delta Society, I saw animal cruelty videos coming out of China 20 years ago that I still cannot get out of my head. The hideous videos on this site are the tip of the ice berg for China's cruel practices. Shame on Donna, and all designers who use fur products, and especially such products from China.

Posted by: Dr. Carole Fudin | December 16, 2008 04:45 PM

I wish I bought Donna Karan clothes so that I could boycott her, but since I was never really a fan, my protest doesn't really help. This is horrible! And, unlike meat butchered for food, humans don't benefit in any way from fur coats!

Posted by: Audrey | December 16, 2008 07:57 PM

Why cant she just use fake fur?

I mean really, its just as soft as real fur and the best part is NO animals are TORTURED or KILLED for it. Other designers use fake fur and they probably make just as much money as her.

What a cruel bitch.

Posted by: Cissa | December 16, 2008 08:19 PM

I too will not buy any D.K. products and find her just as appaling as the Chinese who engage in this age old barbaric predatory act! What is the difference bet. the guy who skins these innocent animals alive, and D.K. who sells them and the person who wares them? They are equally inhumane! For as long as there is a market for it, this kind of cruelty will continue. Boycott fur shops, write to the celebrities who buy these, raise consciousness!

Posted by: Azita | December 16, 2008 08:33 PM

I couldn't kill any animal even if someone offered me a million dollars to do it, no way! It's all about ethics, but too many people are all about greed.

Posted by: Mystie | December 16, 2008 08:51 PM

To my utter disgust I have a bottle of DKNY in my cupboard - not knowing what a butcher DK is. What type of woman can do this to animals? There must be something seriously wrong with her psyche.
I shall never again buy her perfume - and I shall never buy anyhting from her fashion label - unless she stops using fur.
Donna - what kind of woman are you? Do you think fur will make your beautiful? A woman's beauty is inside herself - not on the outside...
Katinka

Posted by: Katinka | December 16, 2008 11:00 PM

She is a B!+cH a bloody FuCk!ng hell....we should bring her to china and let her see the cruelty happening in china.I mean how can anyone continue to sell for her interest in money and sacrifying animals!...wth!

Posted by: T.R.Y | December 17, 2008 12:58 AM

Maybe Donna the butcher should be taken to a fur farm and be shown how exactly her precious fur is made, although people like her only wants to see the green and they have no regard for moral or compassion for anyone or anything but themselves. with all due respect - not that she deserves any - people should know she is a GREEDY COLDHEARTED PIECE OF SLYME AND A LIAR for going back on her word - shame on you Donna, you're not worth s%^&t! untill you keep your word, have you no honor?

Posted by: Christene | December 17, 2008 03:00 AM

that evil bitch if i ever see her in my life im gonna kill that stupid slag and skin her alive and make her eat her own skin i hate hate fur industry there evil and china is the root of it all!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mario wilkes | December 17, 2008 03:30 AM

Donna Karan wears the blood of thousands of animals without even thinking of the amount of cruelty that is involved. She makes Jack the Ripper seem quite tame in real terms. The violence she envokes will be visited upon her in the future. Rik

Posted by: Rik Sands in Cyprus | December 17, 2008 03:33 AM

She has no morals whatsoever. I dont understand how this kind of cruelty continues?! shame on Donna Karen and shame on people who buy her products.

Posted by: Nia Huws | December 17, 2008 04:25 AM

She has no morals whatsoever. I dont understand how this kind of cruelty continues?! shame on Donna Karen and shame on people who buy her products.

Posted by: Nia Huws | December 17, 2008 04:30 AM

Donna's Song.

Donna dear, it's not funny.

You broke your word just for some money

I'd hoped you'd change

Guess I was wrong

Your greed for lucra was toooooo strong!

Posted by: Sabrina Fwarbic | December 17, 2008 06:15 AM

I am ashamed to have bought a lot from both Donna Karan and DKNY. As much as I value her talent as far as design is concerned, this 'new money' maker needs to understand that I can no longer be associated with her values and her brand. This s embarassing. (I doubt she can actually understand something in strategic marketing) and that her short termism qualifies her as riff-raff and chavs (and who wants to be associated with this?). Let her join the legions of out- of-fashion brands which make money for naffos from the middle east and Russia. And let me spell it for her: Not for France, not for the UK, not for the US, not for Italy, and not for Germany. If you want to play in junior league of Fashion, you're on the right track. Behave yourself, or be definitely excluded form Notting hill or upper east side, (dahhling). Tsss.

Posted by: Guillaume / London | December 17, 2008 10:15 AM

Just thinking that Donna Karen and all those people doing the killing will have to experience unending future lifetimes of suffering and screaming in the exact same way, without mercy, without kindness, or rescue makes my blood run cold. My God, could anything be more horrible? No one I know wears fur anymore. Its too old fashioned. I wouldn't even be friends with a person who was so ignorant of the issues of animal cruelty as to wear fur. Its shocking. My heart is filled with pity for the people who will experience thea karma as soon as this life is finished, and probably, even before. May they hear the teachings of karma and stop as soon as possible.

Posted by: Wendy King | December 17, 2008 11:27 AM

I never cared for her products since in my eyes she is a D List designer, but I will however spread the word to those I know who do.

Posted by: Wanda Cardenas | December 17, 2008 01:45 PM

I FEEL SO ASHAMED TO HAVE THIS WOMANS CLOTHING IN MY CLOSET, WELL NOT ANYMORE! WHO IN THE WORLD WEARS REAL FURR ANYWAY...NOT ONLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH DONNA KARAN, KILLING THESE POOR INNOCENT RABBITS, KILLING/TORTURING....BUT WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THE PEOPLE BUYING THIS FURR THINKING....HAVE THEY NO VALUES OR MORALS...THIS IS SO DISAPPOINTING...BUT I BELIEVE IN WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND...I PLAN ON SPREADING THE WORD OF THIS SO CALLED FASHION DESIGNER AND HER CRUEL TACTICS. WE ALL NEED TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THIS CRUELTY, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO PRAY FOR THESE ANIMALS. GOD WILL PUNISH THOSE THAT CAUSE HARM & SUCH CRUELTY TO HIS CREATURES. I PRAY THAT THIS DONNA KARAN HAS SOME SORT OF HEART IN HER CHEST AND REALIZES HOW WRONG SHE IS FOR THIS ABUSE ON THESE RABBITS, SHE IS IN A POSITION TO BE A ROLE MODEL TO OTHERS, WHAT A SHAME SHE HAS TAKEN THE LOW ROAD.
PAMELA

Posted by: Pamela | December 17, 2008 02:28 PM

you need to stop this buthering of these poor animals! i will never wear a fur and i will spred the word!!you need to be ashamed!!!!!!

Posted by: BONNIE ASKEY | December 17, 2008 04:00 PM

Absolutely disgusting. What a disgrace to the human race to be such a heartless person who is not ashamed to torture an innocent animal. These people need to experience a similar fate to those of their victims.

Posted by: Hanna | December 18, 2008 12:45 AM

Before I found out about what Donna Karan does to animals for profit, I did actually buy a few things from her line. I bought a DKNY watch which I loved and I lost this watch a few months ago. I have been putting off buying another one and now that I know the cruelty involved in this designer's business, I will make certain that I never purchase anything from her again. In some small way, this will hit her bottom line but if all of us make a small effort, it will add up to a lot. Like all those who profit in this way, they are going to have to wake up to the fact that cruelty will not be tolerated.

Posted by: Jacqueline | December 18, 2008 01:29 AM

this is SICK. how could anybody know that this is happening and still support it? donna karen is sick and heartless for letting this happen and i hope people will understand that and never buy another thing of hers until this madness is put to an end and she apologizes for all the animals lives she has ended.

Posted by: Lexie | December 18, 2008 04:44 PM

Donna Karan,her clothes are boring,I guess she dosen't have children,she needs to have her face pushed in front of a PETA video..but remember this Donna, there is a day of judgement and I hope your's is being skinned inch by inch.good luck in HELL.

Posted by: Christina McGuinness | December 18, 2008 10:40 PM

This son of a bitch should rot in hell. She's a foul sadistic bitch that should die the same way these creatures did to fuel her fuc' ugly line. I hope she gets her eyes plucked out with hot rods and shoved up her ass and then skinned whilst still conscious!! She deserves everything she gets, I mean what is up with animal fur. It should be admired whilst still on the animal!

Posted by: james | December 19, 2008 07:39 PM

What people do for money as if money is more important then anything else in the world.I rather be comapssionate and have a peace of mind.Honestly I'm so disgusting with people who have no heart.I love my country but I don't love the people who live in it such as Donna Karan.Animals cry when their being butcher.I cry whenever I watch the videos on animals being skinned alive for their fur even dogs and cats Oh God what people have become.Its scary to live in this life time and its only getting worst.I rather die then to continue living in this Sinful life.The world is beautiful.It just the people like Donna Karan and other designers who have no consideration for the animals.The people so call humans are the #1 predators of all animals.Why do these people torture the animals.Its not right.Its not humane.For the love and respect I have for all animals I don't eat 4 legged nor 2 legged animals.All this saden me because I love the world God has given us to respect and love.I'm happy to say that I get to sleep at night because I am a good person who loves life.May God one day say he had enough and brings this world to an end.May God have Mercy on us.

Posted by: Sylvia | December 19, 2008 11:43 PM

I don't see how someone could brutally beat little animals and skin them while they're still alive. How could someone live with that kind of job? Do they feel nothing? I would like to skin them alive and see if they ever feel the same again. The things people do for money is sickening. I wish I could torture and kill them all... The satisfaction would just be... oh so overwhelming. I wish there was a real life occupation that would allow me to do such without consequence.

Posted by: justin | December 22, 2008 01:57 AM

I'm glad we won the fight against this fur war. Let's all keep up the fight until we win worldwide.

Posted by: Jason Derochie | December 22, 2008 04:16 PM

Vergogna non vi sono più limiti alle brutture...ma che una donna sia così crudele ...forse allora non vi è più scampo.Ancora vergogna

Posted by: Andrea | December 22, 2008 04:59 PM

A victory with DKNY we can share together. I wish I had enough money to wage the fight in China - they are one of the worst offenders, a sickening culture. Who occupies the top place in thecruel fur industry Hall of Shame? Canada's baby seal beaters are as bad as China. Some humans make the world such an ugly place to live in by virtue of their being in it. I'm always so gratified to read from those who are fighting for animals. You are wonderful!

Posted by: Dianne in Omaha | December 22, 2008 07:37 PM

i hope this hell finish...
the animnals are completely innocent to live this fucking doom...
i really hope that our humanity find a way to protect the animals and their necesities...
kiss

Posted by: wanda | December 22, 2008 08:58 PM

me siento totalmente impotente al leer los mails q me llegan del maltrato animal. tengo 17 años y mucho no puedo hacer!!!! y me mata...
espero que todo cambie y que encontremos una salida para equilibrar..
gracias!!!
soy wanda de ARGENTINA

Posted by: wanda | December 22, 2008 09:01 PM

this is a big victory for us

Posted by: piyush | December 23, 2008 12:06 AM

I can not understand how this people can treat this lovely animals without having any respect? Making money like this is so triest. There are other ways to earn money in live eh, why dont get a real job instead of killing inocent rabbits???

Posted by: Mariana | December 23, 2008 04:22 AM

Non siamo più uomini primitivi....Dobbiamo solo vergognarci per tutto il male che facciamo agli animali!!!!!

Posted by: Margherita | December 23, 2008 04:39 AM

orrible

Posted by: francesco le rose | December 23, 2008 08:01 AM

Those of us who stand outside with signs and chant and protest deserve lots of credit for the changes that take place and too often many "big animal agencies" take credit when it is grassroots making the changes. My hats off to my fellow activists who are gentle warriors of change. It is nice when we are acknowledged. My feelings about fur:anyone who wears fur is an accessory to murder. They let people do their dirty work for them. We live is a very sick sociopathic world. People who parade around in fur are empty inside so they think fashion, their looks etc make them feel like something cause they feel like a big nothing inside. There are many shallow empty souls who look like plastic on the outside and have no clue who they are or where their humanity is. They are heartless and have not an ounce of empathy. What makes a woman who knows what they do to an animal and still wears fur in 2008 any different from a murderer? It's the same MO.- no ability to feel, no compassion, no empathy. Selfish, cold. Anyone who loves themself does not need to try to fill the void with fur, and cars and money and all the twisted, distorted, status keeping up with the Jones's mentality.They should be locked up like criminals for the amount of pain and suffering they are causing animals is inexcusable.
They are not even human. I have seen more emotion in the eyes of animals than these type of "fake people" who are so selfish and care more about shopping then the cruelty and suffering they cause. I could never be friends with someone who wears fur. And though people tell me I am too judgemental, that is too bad. I will say once again it is morally dispicable and should not be tolerated that fur be worn unless you live in the woods cut off from civilization. It is always the people who speak up in spite of the people who call you crazy or wacko that make the changes in history. I am sure the Suffragettes must have been the recipients of people calling them names etc.etc. Those of us who are ahead in evolution know there is no excuse whatsoever, for violence and abuse against people, animals or the earth itself. I do not pay attention to people who tell me many things are none of my business. It is all our business to not tolerate treating live sentient creatures less than and justifying cruelty.

Posted by: mar | December 23, 2008 10:29 AM

I CAN'T UNDERSTAND why PEOPLE KILL any animal to make a fur....There' a phrase that says: Fur is used by BEUTIFUL ANIMALS but UGGLY PEOPLE....
A person that is evil to an ANIMAL will NEVER be happy....
Do you KNOW that VEGANS have ALTERNATIVE CLOTHS that ARE GREAT to THE PLANET and ESPECIALLY for the ANIMALS???? Cause they are SAVED by those people....

Posted by: Labibe Milad D'Almeida Vitor | December 23, 2008 10:44 AM

you need to stop this buthering of these poor animals! i will never wear a fur and i will spred the word...

To jak człowiek się zachowuje w stosunku do naszych braci mniejszych jest okropne. Trzeba z tym skończyć. Przecież nikt nie założyłby skóry z człowieka więc czemu, przecież człowiek ma swoją skórę... Więc czego mu brak?!
Ludzka głupota, nieludzkie bestialstwo...

Posted by: Karolina | December 23, 2008 12:06 PM

Shame to Donna Karan, I will never purchase from their store again unless I hear from Peta that there will be no more animal products sold there!

Elizabeth Herndl

Posted by: Elizabeth | December 23, 2008 04:36 PM

I have never own any of her clothing and I won't now till she stops using fur on her clothing line.

Posted by: Heidi | December 27, 2008 12:33 PM