Early last week I got a text from a friend I'll call Penny: "What's the read on wearing a fur coat right now?" Penny had inherited a gray fox-fur coat from her grandmother—and the below-freezing temperatures had her thinking it was time to break it out. "I sometimes get looks out in Brooklyn, but nobody bats an eye at me in Manhattan," I replied. At the end of the night, Penny sent me a follow-up outfit pic with the text: "I felt perfectly fine wearing it at The Mark."
Fur was a hot topic of conversation throughout New York Fashion Week —and during multiple meetings at the Vogue office. So we debated it out: Is vintage fur now okay to wear?
Margaux Anbouba: Hi everybody, thanks for being game to talk about a quite controversial subject. You all know I have quite the collection of vintage fur—both inherited from my family and purchased over the years. I wore it throughout NYFW, and real fur is everywhere on the streets. That doesn't surprise me—it's warm, and it's chic—but I know some of you are surprised by its resurgence.
Nicole Phelps, Vogue Runway director: I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose. I've spent my career watching trends come and go, but fur's return has taken me aback. Maybe it's all the years of PETA protests I've witnessed on the runways? I see young women wearing long vintage furs with their workout clothes and sneakers on the weekends, which, for me, accentuates their "let me eat cake" rejection of the antifur movement.
Alexandra Hildreth, fashion news writer, Vogue Runway: The mob-wife-trend madness really helped break the dam when it came to bringing real fur back into the mainstream. Most of my circle agreed that vintage or secondhand is more sustainable than faux. Now the topic has come back up not so much as a reopened debate but as a fascination with the vibe shift in the mainstream conversation: Is faux fur actually sustainable? And more importantly, is the resurgence of fur in fashion a dog whistle for conservatism?
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