December 19, 2006 11:07 p.m. EST
Sally Grover - All Headline News Contributor
New
York, NY (AHN) - R&B artists have a fondness for wearing fur but
rapper and sometime designer P. Diddy is under fire for allegedly
misleading style setters into thinking a jacket from his winter
collection is animal friendly, when in fact it isn't.
The item
in question, being sold at Macys, is advertised as having an "imitation
rabbit fur collar" and is "nylon/faux fur/goose down".
The reality, apparently, is that the coat is made out of genuine fur.
The
Humane Society Of The United States (HSUS) purchased the item believing
it to follow their ethics regarding animals as fashion, only to find
that the fur in question once belonged to a raccoon.
The
society is now doing DNA testing on the fur to establish whether it is
from a raccoon dog, a Chinese breed to dog whose coat resembles that of
a raccoon.
If it is made certain that the design does involve an animal, Macys has agreed to take the offending item off its shelves.
