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"The softer side"??? Did the authors overlook the irony in that description? Fur is disgusting. Nice job.

This is sick-I am ashamed of you LA TIMES

Really? Beavers, rabbits, mink and other animals used to make these vile products live and die in misery. They are jammed into cages in which they can barely move or are caught in traps. Their skins are ripped off their bodies. Anyone with a shred of decency shuns fur.

No matter how you dress it up, fur will always be a callous fashion choice that causes real suffering for countless animals. No amount of sleek advertising can erase the cold fact that fur animals are raised inhumanely and then brutally killed for their skins. It's a heartless industry andI'm appalled that you and the LA Times could condone orencourage it.
Please enlighten yourself and other readers and look at faux fur and furless fashion options. Looking stylish should never involve animal death and suffering

You are one sick publication. While the rest of the civilized world condemns the use of fur and the painful torture and slaughter of these ANIMALS that you currently show on a shoe or bag, YOU are classless enough to condone this. You have zero class or compassion and it is ironic that you call it a softer side......ONLY those who are THAT ugly on the outside and inside even consider wearing FUR, they need the controversy to take the attention away from their own lack of outer or inner beauty.......SHAME ON YOU FOR CONDONING THE TORTURE, SHAME ON YOU FOR CATERING TO A VERY SMALL, INSIGNIFICANT GROUP OR CONSUMERS. Hayley you should open your eyes to the world around you and understand that it doesn't matter how much you made on this article, it is NOTHING compared to the amount of class that you lost or the amount of suffering that innocent animals went through so that your useless name could be above this wannabe article. Blood money, hope it was worth it to you.

No way would I ever buy a magazine that promotes fur. It's a cruel and needless thing to do to the animals.

I so love the look of these boots. Fur is sure going to be seen this winter. Hopefully PETA does not spot me because I sure will be wearing this trend from coats to trendy women shoes that has fur!

This is pathetic and disgusting and something that needs to STOP- people its 2011- almost 2012 and you are still wearing animals to look like cave people!? seriously? after all we have seen these beautiful animals SUFFER HORRIFIC deaths so hags like Jlo and Kim Kardashian can tell us its "fashionable" and then looser magazines like LA TIMES try to ride this self indulged, ignorant trend? I will NEVER buy your poor excuse for a magazine/paper again,,,YOU LOOSE!!

I would never buy a magazine that supports fur!!! Sooo disgusting! You just lost a lot of readers!

These animals do not belong to us any more than we ourselves deserve to be trapped, caged, tortured, electrocuted, and skinned alive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7aPoDg5fDc

We think that we have read our last LA Times. This story was disgusting. To have no empathy for the suffering of the animals is your business, but to promote it in your paper is unconscionable.

I am astonished at the ignorance of the L.A. Times in 2011. It looks like a newspaper in the 1950s when fur products and tasty animal parts were all the rage. Too bad, L.A. Times editors, you're a bridge too far yesterday. Wake up! Look around!! Animal cruelty is out of style!!!

Repulsive. Fur is way way out of style. Barbaric. Goodbye LA Times.

I am canceling my subscription. People who wear fur are gauche. West Hollywood has banned fur altogether. Clearly the L.A. Times has failed to evolve. If fur buyers are your demographic, then I need a better newspaper.

fur is disgusting. shame on you for supporting it....

It sickens me to see that you are giving attention to "fashion" that is so disgustingly cruel and inhumane. I wonder if the people who choose to support these 'designers' also choose to support defenseless creatures being abused, beaten, thrown to the ground, suffocated, electrocuted, and SKINNED ALIVE for the sake of fashion. Or perhaps they support animals being trapped in steel jaw traps, left to suffer agonizing deaths...all for the sake of fashion?

Come on people...it's 2011...you don't need to wear animal fur on your bodies when there is faux fur to satiate your need to have "that look."

I beg people reading this to PLEASE educate yourselves about how the fur on your clothing actually gets there.

Would you want your pets to be skinned alive? i didn't think so....Please don't allow the same thing to happen to other creatures in this world who just want the same things your pets do - comfort, love, safety and the right to live.

Shame on the LA Times for even printing this.

With all that is known in this day and age about the horrific and cruel ways animals are killed for their skins, it is unacceptable for anyone to wear, or buy fur. Only ignorant people with no compassion support and promote the fur industry. In fact, SHAME on the LA Times for promoting fur products!

Shame on the LA Times for its ignorance. It's time for you to join the 21st Century! I will not be buying this "rag" any more (nor will I purchase items from its advertisers).

I am moving to LA and I was going to subscribe to your magazine to get the scoop on the city. You are a smear to your city, you have no soul and I will find another source to get my information from. I wonder how many people you lost versus what you gained from those that view life as money to be made. Shame on you.

Fur is not fasionable. It is cruel and inhumane. LA Times, be a company that is socially responsible and remove animal products from your stores and advertisements.

How can anyone wear these products? Don't the animals' screams bother you?

half the time, they find dog and cat fur in the mix. i just saw a photo the other day of a german shepherd screaming in agony while being skinned alive for fur. it's not too late to become a good person. do it now.

This is absolutely disgusting. There is nothing fashionable about stealing an animal's fur to drape on a human body. Why is such a progressive city newspaper promoting something so cruel and unnecessary?

Shame on you!! this is a disgrace. Wake up America its 2011 fur is not a fashion statment, its ANIMAL CRUELTY!!

Eww, are you serious? Classy, LA times.. Let's showcase suffering as fashionable. Congrats.

Unacceptable in the year 2011. Shame on you LA Times. Never will i be your fan.

These are very disturbing--and disgusting!--'products'. I thought our "civilization" had gotten beyond the gratuitous use of dead animals to adorn our appearance. Stop it!!!!!

Please don't do this, the animals go through so much already. There are many other items you can wear and use,please don't use animals for vanity. It really isn't cool.

News Flash: We're not living in Jurassic Park anymore. Only a fur hag or knuckle dragger would be caught dead wearing animal skins in this day and age. Wake up and smell evolution!

REALLY?? How ignorant are you people for running promotional material for cruelty? I, and MANY people I spoke to are disgusted by what you have featured here. Are you THAT desperate for $$$ that you promote fur? Fur is YESTERDAY, get with the program and understand that you'll get a lot more fans by NOT promoting cruelty. I really do hope that your executives sit down and think about this, it's just NOT cool.

L.A. of all places should not be showcasing fur as fashionable, does it even get cold in Los Angeles? This is the is yet another fall article by you guys featuring fur. Fur is tacky. Period. Animals are skinned ALIVE for this unnecessary indulgence. I would have rather seen an article on faux fur there are plenty of responsible, compassionate designers out there. Shame on you LA times for being so moronic Hayley Atkin who wrote this article should sit and watch some videos or read articles on the high price animals pay for a "pop" of fur on an accessory! Fur is not a fashion statement, it's a cruelty statement.

Thats got to be one of the lowest scum sucking things a "human" is capable of...stealing another beings skin or wearing it. Leeches!

Disgusting. How any designer, advertiser, celebrity, or human being still thinks this is ok is beyond me.

Suffering is not fashionable. It is not chic to wear fur, it is cruel. There are so many wonderful faux furs out there that are beautiful that there is literally NO reason to wear fur if you "just like the look" You at the LA times are promoting the slaughter of animal for no reason and it disgusts me.

Why doesn't LA Times Magazine show the other side - the real truth of where the foie gras & furs are coming from? They are just showing the finished product. Why don't they show the metal pipes being rammed down the ducks throats with the food stuffed into them - so much that they can't even walk. Why don't they show the cages they are stuffed into?
Why don't they show the horrific pain on an animals face while he tries to chew his own paw off to free himself of the trap he is in with his paw in a metal clamp? Why don't they show him freezing to death in the snow when he can't free himself? Why don't they show minks being killed with metal rods pushed up their anus's & electrocuted from the inside so as not to damage their fur? Why don't they show the animals having their skin ripped off while they are squirming around writhing in pain?

I will no longer purchase the LA Times Magazine. The fur trade is barbaric...Those that wear fur should be forced to watch EXACTLY how an animal is robbed of their fur. It ia a horrific event that is not only painful and lethal to the animal but mortifying to the person watching. The fur trade is becoming more and more taboo, until the day it is no longrer accepted. Jump on our bandwagon or be thrown off, the choice is yours.

This is just disgusting and sad. Shame on you LA Times.