Fur in fashion design strongly critisized: Stella McCartney blasts 'cruel' fashion industry.

Sir Paul McCartney's fashion designer daughter Stella has severely criticized the fashion industry for continuing to use animal fur in new designs.

The 35-year-old designer and animal rights campaigner is furious: "There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear. The continuing use of fur is a real problem in the fashion industry. There is an issue with people out there assuming that fur trim is fake when most of it is real."

In the meanwhile, sales of fur products have just hit GBP500 million for the first time, which means a 30 per cent growth in the recent two years. Celebrities like Keira Knightley, Kate Moss, and Nicole Richie have all been snapped wearing fur recently.

Stella McCartney fumes that fellow designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Julien Macdonald and Alexander McQueen are continuing to stage catwalk shows with real fur.