Once in a while, I come across a handbag that is so hideous I cannot resist writing about it, despite the fact that I am usually only looking out for attractive bags. The last time this happened, I wrote about the Swamp Thing-inspired bag from Toos. This Fox Fur Bag by Renaud Pellegrino (orig.: $5,095, sale: $3,566) is worse. Fur bags are fine, especially in the winter, when they're tastefully done, but it looks as though the designer completely forgot what to do with the hide once he had it. Anyone carrying this big will unquestionably look as though they are carrying a limp, dead animal with them - which is depressing, as well as unattractive.Renaud Pellegrino Fox Fur Bag, Handbag of the Day
Once in a while, I come across a handbag that is so hideous I cannot resist writing about it, despite the fact that I am usually only looking out for attractive bags. The last time this happened, I wrote about the Swamp Thing-inspired bag from Toos. This Fox Fur Bag by Renaud Pellegrino (orig.: $5,095, sale: $3,566) is worse. Fur bags are fine, especially in the winter, when they're tastefully done, but it looks as though the designer completely forgot what to do with the hide once he had it. Anyone carrying this big will unquestionably look as though they are carrying a limp, dead animal with them - which is depressing, as well as unattractive.





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12-13-2006 @ 5:27PM
tracey said...
Totally ugly..had to go and look at the swamp thing bag, which in case anyone is interested is marked down to 885..from 1400+
bargain city.
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12-13-2006 @ 5:54PM
Kristi said...
Loks like a nice Hag Bag for some Gieco Caveman. Except he'd be pissed that anyone would still want one of these hideous things!!!
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12-14-2006 @ 9:20AM
skylar dietrich said...
We're just like the Indians who used the whole animal after the kill. But where'd all the meat go?
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12-16-2006 @ 8:23PM
Sherry said...
Bet the fox looked better in its own fur!!!!! Why anyone would want to wear fur anything is beyond me. We no longer live in the stone age, folks. Animals are becoming extinct because humans are so vain. Stop the slaughter!!
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12-16-2006 @ 8:33PM
Lori said...
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12-16-2006 @ 8:34PM
Tricia said...
One would have to be a real "sicko" to want to carry something as disgusting-looking as this. Anything made out of fur is revolting but this takes the cake!
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12-16-2006 @ 8:48PM
Debra said...
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGLY!!!!!
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12-16-2006 @ 8:53PM
Carla said...
That purse is god alwful. I bet my cat would have a field day with it. I just had to view the swamp thing bag, and in my opinion, it looks like it is covered in algae.
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12-16-2006 @ 8:55PM
Carol Bouton said...
You wrote;
"look as though they are carrying a limp, dead animal with them - which is depressing, as well as unattractive."
Well they ARE carrying a limp dead animal. This is obscene! Why can't mankind evolve?
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12-16-2006 @ 8:57PM
MURIEL said...
... And the journalist wrote if we carry that bag with us, this will look like we carry a dead animal with us...
THAT IS A DEAD ANIMAL!!!
Well they needed probably more than one to do that "fancy" bag, like they do their "fancy" coats...
MERRY CHRISTMAS FURRY ANIMALS...waiting to be slaughtered in the name of Fashion...!!!
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12-16-2006 @ 9:03PM
Greg said...
Oh my! It's too spendy for the fox. Does it come in cat?
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12-16-2006 @ 9:05PM
Stephanie said...
My Gawd, there's no way that thing could that thing be a better representation of everything that is hideous and wrong with the fashion industry. Unless it comes with a free video of them bludgeoning that poor helpless fox to death and then skinning it...
What kind of soulless fool would want to purchase such an abomination (or for that matter any item of clothing made from a slaughtered animal)?
I like my fur living, breathing and frolicking happily. Thank you very much.
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12-16-2006 @ 9:08PM
virginia said...
I hope people who wear this can live with the fact that these animals are skinned alive. I don't know how they sleep at night-how would they like it? Where is the civilized in civilization? People who wear fur make me sick!
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12-16-2006 @ 9:08PM
Ron said...
So someone is going to actually pay $3500.00 for that on sale? By the looks of it, it was found in some trash bin or at hte local landfill.
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12-16-2006 @ 9:15PM
Julia said...
Oh quit yapping about the fur thing. Cows and chickens get eaten everyday and no one seems to have any sympathy for them. And yes I SUPPOSE some fur is skinned alive(although I doubt it - what's the point??) but pigs are hung upsidedown and have thier throats slit to drain the blood faster and cows are simply spiked in the head. And if you've ever worn a leather coat, belt, shoes etc, slept under a down quilt you are just as guilty as someone carrying a foxfur bag or wearing a mink coat. If you're going to be against animal cruelty you can't just defend the cute ones.
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12-16-2006 @ 9:16PM
Nancy said...
Might not come in cat for allergy reasons but in this sicko world you could probably get it in Golden Retriever. Just as obscene and pretty hideous.
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12-16-2006 @ 9:19PM
Emily said...
"Fur bags are fine, especially in the winter, when they're tastefully done..." Pray tell unkind sir, how is a bag made from the flesh of innocents tastefully done? Please enlighten me as to how it's made tasteful? Perhaps, through a proper burial or cremation... Through living in a fantasy land in which you pretend that there's no violence involved in harvesting the skin of an animal from it's once live body...
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12-16-2006 @ 9:20PM
Sugar said...
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." --Albert Schweitzer
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12-16-2006 @ 9:21PM
Kitty said...
Did you know:
* Ranch-raised foxes are kept in cages only 2.5 feet square (minks in cages 1-foot-by-3-feet), with up to four animals per cage.
* Animals can languish in traps for days. Up to 1 out of every 4 trapped animals escapes by chewing off his or her own feet, only to die later from blood loss, fever, gangrene, or predation.
* Every year, thousands of dogs, cats, raptors, and other so-called "trash" animals (including endangered species like the bald eagle) are crippled or killed by traps.
* To kill the animals without damaging their fur, trappers usually strangle, beat, or stomp them to death. Animals on fur farms may be gassed, electrocuted, poisoned with strychnine, or have their necks snapped. These methods are not 100 percent effective and some animals "wake up" while being skinned.
* According to a study by Ford Motor Company engineer Gregory H. Smith, it takes almost three times as much energy to make a coat from trapped animals' pelts—and 40 times as much from ranch-raised furs—than it does to make a fake fur coat.
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12-16-2006 @ 9:30PM
Tiffany said...
It looks like some redneck got gun happy and his wife decided to make the best of it. HIDEOUS!!!
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