See what we’ve been saying about fashion made from animal products on the Behind the Seams blog.

• A vintage shop owner weighed in with us regarding the honorable place fur has in fashion.
• Designer Chrys Hutchings came up with a solution to New Zealand’s paihamu possum infestation: wild wool.
• A Q&A with the author of the Skinny Bitch self-help series revealed a surprisingly hostile attitude toward Manolo Blahnik.
• Madison did some investigative reporting about whether PETA really gave away fur coats to the homeless over Inauguration Weekend in Washington, D.C.
• Liz Clairborne, newly helmed by now-he’s-everywhere designer Isaac Mizrahi, has pledged to avoid merino wool from Australia over animal welfare concerns, but the issue is not so cut and dried.