Fashion designer Stella McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter, has slammed the fashion industry for continuing to use animal fur in new designs.

Sales of fur products have just hit $965 million for the first time — a rise of 30 percent in two years — and stars like Keira Knightley, Nicole Richie and Kate Moss have all been snapped wearing fur recently.

McCartney is furious fellow designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Julien MacDonald and Alexander McQueen are continuing to stage catwalk shows with real fur.

The 35-year-old designer and animal rights campaigner fumes, “There’s nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear. The continuing use of fur is a real problem in the fashion industry.

“There is an issue with people out there assuming that fur trim is fake when most of it is real.”

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