The accelerating demand for animal skin, pelts, bones and organs is decimating species across the world.
This takes into account feed, cages, skinning, pelt-drying, processing and transportation.
By the end of day one, derby-goers brought in 17 coyotes to a warehouse in Salmon where their bodies were measured, weighed, and skinned, the pelts sold to fur buyers on hand for the nightly bringing-in of the dead.
But Fendi, with its intimate understanding of skins and pelts, can take that decorative concept so much further.
Early French settlers made their own fabrics and clothes and bartered with indigenous peoples for animal skins and pelts, with beaver predominating in Canada and deer in Louisiana.
Inside are antlers, skins and pelts of wild animals shot or trapped by Mr. Greenway, photographs of airplanes he has flown and an assortment of hunting implements, including bow and arrow.
A fur coat is made out of a dozen or more cute little animals most commonly mink often raised in small cages and then killed and skinned, their pelts tanned and auctioned off in a lot and then cut into little itty bitty strips and painstakingly hand-stitched by a highly-skilled craftsman in Hong Kong or Turkey or South Korea.
His job as a furrier is his life, and beyond the immediate task of skinning the various pelts that land on his work table, he has no curiosity where the rest of the world is concerned.
No sane person intends to go down a path where Saturdays are spent changing from jeans to a Dothraki pelt-skin costume in the back of a Ford Focus in a Milton Keynes conference centre car-park before meeting their friend Nige (him of the egg-box dragon costume and blow-torch mouth o' fire effect) but cosplay has to start somewhere.
Covering a Philippe Starck chair with a couple of fake python skins and animal pelts doth not great design make, although it can be a promotional triumph, as Mr. Kravitz ("the Kanye West of design," as one wag dubbed him) demonstrated when his efforts for the Milanese furniture manufacturer, Kartell, were splashed across the Italian media.
