Natalie Portman scores vegan shoes from Dior
Animal-friendly actress given special treatment as the new face of Dior's Miss Dior Cherie perfume.
ZUMA Press The "Black Swan" actress, who is strictly vegan and once designed her own line of vegan shoes, recently told WWD.com, “One of the things that’s been so nice is that Dior made all of the shoes for me with no animals and no leather or anything, because I don’t wear any leather…They re-made all my shoes so I can wear Dior shoes without taking lives.”
In 2009, Portman revealed that it was Jonathan Safran Foer’s book "Eating Animals" that convinced her to go all the way with a vegan diet.
“Perhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities,” she wrote in a review of the book on The Huffington Post. “But the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable, and the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling.”
Though Portman is obviously pysched that Dior took into account her animal-free convictions for the shoot, some have complained that it doesn't make sense for her to shill for a company known for its leather and fur accessories; especially when they don't even commercially offer a "vegan collection" of shoes.
Perhaps the 29-year-old actress might inspire them to give it a shot? What do you think of Natalie's hookup with Dior?
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Christian Dior is among many cosmetic/beauty/pufume etc. companies who claim to be ‘Against Animal Testing’ or ‘Don’t test on animals’ but this is nothing more than clever wording to trick people into to thinking they are cruelty ‘Free’! However many of these companies knowingly use ingredients that have been tested on animals (even if the testing was done by other companies) or they use a ‘rolling cut of date’ which you can google to find out what that means. (Many also use.... More
I think Natalie should try Okabashi Shoes. They are vegan freindly shoes, and made in the USA!
The best we can expect is that Ms Portman's association with Dior may encourage the company to be open to the commercial implications of animal "misuse". The animal-friendly market is not small, vast numbers of women are vegetarian/anti-fur and real alternatives cleverly marketed could scoop a big, as yet untapped, pool. Ms Portman cannot harm her cause as nay gain would help it - Dior could have used another actress or model with less conscience and the issue would have remained completely.... More
I'm sure the perfume is also tested on animals.
