It's also to do with the fact that young designers are featuring fur in their collections".
Fendi – a fur house, of course – featured fur trousers (there's something you didn't know you needed) while Roberto Cavalli had it on every look, prompting protests from animal-rights groups outside his show.
Almost every model wore a fur stole, and one dress featured fur fringing as a skirt.
Shulman says that, "broadly speaking", British Vogue does not feature fur, other than fur advertising, which is not in her remit.
The other arists nominated were Bonnie Camplin's conspiracy theory-themed "The Military Industrial Complex"; Janice Kerbel's opera DOUG, described as "a choreographed history of imagined disaster"; and Nicole Wermers' "Untitled Chairs 2014-15", which featured fur coats stitched over Marcel Breuer chairs.
Then, in October you can expect to see fashion stories featuring fur in your favorite high-fashion magazines.
When I was thirteen, I saw on the news that Bob Barker had resigned as the longtime emcee of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants because the producer of the show refused to stop featuring fur coats on the contestants.
Trendier styles feature furs that have been sheared, dyed outrageous colors or stitched with contrasting skins to create different patterns.
Leigh's costume features a fur hat, an embroidered blue walking outfit and leather boots.
"Country Bear Jamboree," which closed in August and reopened on Wednesday — shorter, without two songs and featuring new fur styles for its stars — is a window into how that entertainment giant is lately trying to walk that line.
Recent Fendi and Prada collections have featured "fun" fur coats in crazy, pop-art colours, with faces and squiggles – that for all their silliness are real fur.
