Critics also claim the eagles wipe out eider ducks (mink is the culprit, corrects Sexton) and Irish hares (another misconception, says Sexton: hare numbers have fallen partly because of disease).
The Oscar de la Renta flag flew high throughout the show: in the perfectly judged, immaculately cut sleeves ending slightly above the elbow; the chic cut of skirts hemmed just at the knee; the mink sweaters.
You may also see white-tailed deer, moose, mink and even black bears.
In 1955, when a group of Rank stars went to the Venice film festival to publicise British films, Harris designed the notorious "mink" bikini that was worn by Diana Dors in a gondola.
You can see the evidence today: open the phone book in Tallinn or Pärnu and you'll find surnames like Luik (swan), Naarits (mink), Tamm (oak) and Talvoja (winterbrook).
Only 142 employees formally joined the strike, but around 1,500 called in sick.Tally ho Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Hyde Park, London, for a rally against a law, proposed by Labour backbencher Michael Foster, which would ban hunting (with dogs) of foxes, deer, hares and mink.
Other legitimate forms of hunting include setting off after rats and accidentally catching something else (such as a mink), or using a pair of dogs to flush out an animal, which can then be shot.
Europe's fur farms produce over 30m mink and fox pelts a year.
As Hollywood is to films and Silicon Valley is to information technology, Kopenhagen Fur is to peddling the pelts of fluffy creatures.Denmark is home to 1,500 mink farmers who together rear about 17.2m of the mammals a year about one-fifth of the world's supply.
It brilliantly conjured up the whole Chinese market in mink from nothing.
Mr Nielsen set about persuading them that mink was the ultimate symbol of success, commissioning advertisements depicting powerful men with fur-clad girlfriends and staging fashion shows.The association continues to put the shaping of Chinese taste at the centre of its strategy.
