‘Stellar’ News! PETA’s 2024 ‘Person of the Year’ Goes To…
A stellabration is in order! She has been named Designer of the Year by Glamour, Elle, the British Style Awards, and others. She’s a cultural icon and the first daughter of rock ‘n’ roll. Now, visionary animal-friendly designer Stella McCartney can add another faux feather to her cap: PETA’s 2024 Person of the Year.
A Stellar Pioneer of Compassionate Fashion
Fur-feather-leather-and-wild-animal-skins-free since day one, Stella McCartney is the go-to brand for luxurious, sustainable, vegan pieces – and the designer’s long history of killer looks without killing animals continues with the recent launch of her Winter 2024 campaign, “It’s About Fucking Time to End Leather.”
A New Stylestone for a Longtime Animal-Friendly Designer
McCartney wore a custom shirt with the sassy slogan, “It’s About Fucking Time,” during her father’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. Today, she’s repurposing the historic phrase to call on the fashion industry to end its cruel use of leather, feathers, wild-animal skins, and fur. McCartney kicked off the campaign with flair during New York Fashion Week, enlisting PETA supporters and actor Caylee Cowan to pose nude in the window of her flagship SoHo store alongside signs proclaiming, “No Leather Ever!”
McCartney also used her influential voice to call on designers internationally to sign PETA’s new Feather-Free Pledge vowing never to use feathers again in their collections because she knows that birds need their feathers – we don’t.
Sewing Kindness for Animals
Cows develop friendships over time and sometimes hold grudges against other cows who treat them badly; loyal geese partner for life and are protective of their families; hatchling alligators generally stay together in a “pod” for up to three years; and water-loving minks can swim to depths of 50 feet underwater on just one breath. Yet the fashion industry abuses them for their flesh, feathers, and fur, subjecting them to painful mutilations, extreme confinement, and violent killing methods, including strangulation, electrocution, neck-breaking, and throat-slitting. Stella’s animal-friendly designs spare these sensitive, feeling animals from this cruelty.
“PETA is delighted to recognise [Stella McCartney] as our 2024 Person of the Year and urges brands still using animal skins to take a page out of her lookbook and embrace creative, eco-and-animal-friendly materials.”
– PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk
Join Stella McCartney and Pledge to Go Leather and Feather Free!
EVERYONE can be PETA’s Person of the Year by never wearing skins, fur, or feathers stolen from feeling animals.
Sign the “No Leather Ever” Pledge
© Christian Faesecke / We Animals
