PETA is working hard this Fall

PeTA has written to the Metropolitan Museum of Art demanding that it remove a fox fur-trimmed Burberry trench coat from its Anglomania exhibition celebrating British fashion. "Displaying fur garments – especially fur items that serve to advertise goods that visitors can purchase just a few blocks from the museum – sends the message the it's somehow acceptable to torture and kill animals for mere 'fashion'," says PETA's president, Ingrid Newkirk. In the museum's defence, curator Andrew Bolton said the coat had been partly designed to "reveal the moral discourse surrounding blood sports and fur fashions".