There was a chill in the air at the close of Monday’s New York Fashion Week offering — not due to the eight inches of snow forecast, but because Peta was back. The animal rights activists, who reinstated their shameless catwalk breaking and entering tactics last September, launched their first attack this fashion month on Coach.
Only a few looks had passed at the 2pm show before a woman in sparkling stilettos burst out of a side door and unfurled a poster which read “COACH: Let Cows LIVE” while "Leather Kills" was writ in black across her partially exposed breasts. She was taken down in seconds and dragged, limp, out. In a statement PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said “PETA is calling on the brand to lose the leather and urging consumers to refuse to swipe their card for anything made of an animal’s sliced-off skin.”
