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Julie Bishop is slammed by PETA after wearing a feathered dress at Australian Fashion Week: 'It is every bit as cruel as fur'
Julie Bishop's fashion sense has ruffled some feathers with PETA.
The former foreign minister, 67, attended day one of Australian Fashion Week on Monday in a $2000 black cocktail dress by Rachel Gilbert with ostrich feather trim on the sleeves. In a letter directed at Bishop, the organisation stated that 'feathers are every bit as cruel as fur, a fact that led Melbourne Fashion Week to ban the feathers of wild birds from its catwalks' The animal rights organisation then suggested an alternative for Bishop - 'As the ever-lovely Pamela Anderson proved on the Met Gala red carpet, natural pampas grass is a glamorous upgrade to the feathers of cruelly slaughtered birds'
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