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LONDON - Stella McCartney has found herself embroiled in a campaign by animal rights activists over the use of kangaroo hides by the sporting giant behind her latest women's wear range.
McCartney, a long-time vegetarian who has attacked designers who use fur, is weeks away from unveiling her new sportswear range for adidas at London Fashion Week. But animal rights campaigners have begun publicly attacking adidas for fuelling the "largest wildlife slaughter in the world" by using kangaroo skins to make football boots.
"Adidas' use of kangaroo skin is inexcusably cruel," Animal Aid director Andrew Tyler told the Independent on Sunday newspaper.
"On the question of Stella McCartney's alleged silence, we know she opposes animal cruelty and presume she is taking the steps she feels appropriate to press the company to stop the use of kangaroo skins."
McCartney's father, Beatles frontman Paul McCartney, has previously campaigned for Vegetarians International Voice for Animals.
- AAP
