Her Body Painted Like a Snake, Actor and Model Declares, 'Wild Animals Belong in the Wild, Not in Your Wardrobe'
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September 15, 2011
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Wendy Wegner 202-483-7382
LONDON -- As fashionistas from around the world gather for London Fashion Week, actor and model Kelly Brook has teamed up with PETA UK to make a fashion statement of her own: "Animals Belong in the Wild, Not in Your Wardrobe." To make her point, Brook posed in singer, songwriter, and photographer Bryan Adams' London studio—her nude body painted like a snake's—for a campaign that asks "Whose Skin Are You In?" Today, Brook unveiled the campaign in person in London's Covent Garden on the eve of London Fashion Week. Brook also posed for an ad for PETA US’ campaign, which you can see here.
"It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators, and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts," says Brook. "Our message is to support the designers who are creative without being destructive and who go for the great fakes that pay tribute to the animals' beauty without killing them."
Alligators are raised in crowded, waste-infused tanks before being bludgeoned with hammers and skinned while still conscious. An undercover video narrated by Joaquin Phoenix shows how snakes are nailed by their heads to trees and skinned alive and how lizards are snared in the wild before they, too, are skinned.
For more information on the cruelty of the exotic skins industry, please visit PETA.org.