Back in the Salamanca district, at the Mallorca café where elderly women in fur coats meet their friends and men in sharp suits hold informal business meetings, one member of the staff does not really seem to care about the political back and forth.
There's a big market, made up of many of the newly rich Russians and Chinese, and these people are forcing the labels to do more and more fur to meet demand.
Small, blonde, rather glamorous in slinky caramel suede and a long fake fur coat, she meets me at the station in a colossal four-wheel drive vehicle, having just dropped off her "other half" on his way to London.
As Hedda Nussbaum, in a red coat with faux-fur trim, met the press on the courthouse steps in Manhattan on March 10 to announce a legal victory giving herself and other battered women more time to sue their abusers, she dabbed her left eye with a tissue.
Brenda Wineapple, whose excellent biography of Flanner, Genêt, appeared in 1989, tells us that Flanner and her friends always dressed impeccably, they donned gloves to take tea at Le Select in the afternoons, she put on furs to meet her ex-husband and his new wife, to discuss her financial investments.
High tech meets fake fur in Rimula, a lounge chair by Guillaume Sonnet that playfully mixes materials.
Mark Oaten argues that fur manufacturers "are meeting all of the legal obligations when it comes to environmental standards regarding chemicals".
The message, overlying an image of Trump's wife lying on a fur rug read: "Meet Melania Trump.
Much sharper is a Steven Klein photomontage that shows how sport meets chic in fur-edged jumpsuits and slick Balenciaga bomber jackets.
Big fur collar, tarty skirt, knee boots – A/W 2010's "sex worker meets The Tudors" look.
"Additionally, there appears to be some heavy digital editing touch-up to the fur around the face and where the body meets the water.
