While other celebrities wore their messages on their sleeves, Billie was taking action behind the scenes.
. It was a larger-than-life, 15-foot skirt that turned the singer into the Belle of the Met Ball. But there was also a quiet political statement behind it. While other celebrities wore their messages on their sleeves , Billie was taking action behind the scenes.
When Eilish approached Oscar de la Renta about making a Met Gala gown, she not only came with style references, including Marilyn Monroe and Holiday Barbies, but also an ultimatum: stop using fur. Fur has actually been absent from the label’s runway shows in recent years—the brand’s creative directors, Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, don’t find it “chic, modern, or relevant,” according to. Still, despite pleas from the public and his own wife and mother-in-law, Oscar de la Renta’s chief executive officer, Alex Bolen, insisted they continue to sell fur in stores as it makes up a “meaningful amount of sales and profit.
It was Eilish, though, who finally convinced Bolen to do away with the practice. “I thought a lot about what Oscar said—he was a big fan of fur, by the way—that the one thing he really worried about in the fashion business was his eye getting old,” Bolen told theOscar de la Renta now joins a long list of luxury brands that have come out as anti-fur over the past few years. Versace,
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