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Furore, a Fur Substitute, is Next-Gen Polyester

Rayon and polyester better step aside. There's a new synthetic fabric in town, and it's softer, lighter, and more flexible than any of its predecessors. Designers Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel collaborated to create furore, a porous material reminiscent of expanded metal. It comes long and bushy or short and smooth, and can be dyed a variety of different colors. What does this mean for the future of fashion? For one thing, it means you can now dress like a furry alien mermaid without having to hunt down, kill, and skin a furry alien mermaid.

It also means you can probably get a faux fur coat made to look like Sulley from Monsters, Inc. Images by Lama Concept

Lama Collection via Transmaterial

8:20 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
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Ed Grabianowski at 08:32 AM on 03/27/08
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I can continue hunting furry alien mermaids just for sport though, right?
Slatz_Grobnik at 08:35 AM on 03/27/08
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But I liked killing the alien mermaids. It was a lucrative hobby.

Any word on how to pronounce the name of this fabric?
Jeff-Minor at 08:35 AM on 03/27/08
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But does it look and feel like real fur? I'm curious to know, since my old baby seal fur cape is showing its age and I do so want a new one.
NefariousNewt at 08:55 AM on 03/27/08
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OK, it's fake fur -- and she looks like a fish. Connection?

Anyway, this should make PETA happy.
Epaminondas at 09:17 AM on 03/27/08
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Sometimes I wish I liked fur just to piss off PETA. This stuff looks as ugly as the real thing.

Leather is sooooooo much nicer...
Klebert L. Hall at 09:29 AM on 03/27/08
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@NefariousNewt:

Nothing makes PETA happy, it's right there in their charter. Their crabbiness is the only thing I like about them, aside from their random naked-chick demonstrators.

-Kle.
Garrison Dean, King... at 09:35 AM on 03/27/08
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I think its nice. Modern, fresh, different. Sexy with you being slutty and it compliments the womans figure and curves and flows at the same time. Plus no animals have to die in the process. Everyone is happy.
Garrison Dean, King... at 09:36 AM on 03/27/08
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That's sexy without being slutty....
Annalee Newitz at 09:40 AM on 03/27/08
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I want to wear cotton balls all over my body.
Miranda Kali at 10:02 AM on 03/27/08
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I'm sorry. I tried to see the plus side of this, but it just looks WAY too much like chain maile made out of muppet hide.
(those POOR fraggles!)
NefariousNewt at 10:07 AM on 03/27/08
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@Annalee Newitz: I'll be at your house at 7...
Garrison Dean, King... at 10:13 AM on 03/27/08
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@Miranda Kali: Well, the Doozers build, the Gorgs Farm... As adorable as they are this may be the Fraggle's only purpose in life. I mean it makes sense... They do nothing, dreamshare, run around and play all their life, never working and relying on others... Basically free-range Fraggles.
Miranda Kali at 10:36 AM on 03/27/08
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@Garrison Dean:
Gee, since you put it that way...I suppose if they're put down humanely...and all the parts of the fraggle are used, not just the skin..
Hmmm. Fraggle fondue? Red Herring? Lots of marketing potential there.
Garrison Dean, King... at 11:13 AM on 03/27/08
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@Miranda Kali: They are put down very humanely through a complex process that lulls them to sleep and puts them through a conveyor system that euthanizes them and then processes all their parts for various products.

What do you think the Doozers were building?
Zantor at 11:17 AM on 03/27/08
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Looks like something "Twiggy" wore back in the 60's
Grey_Area at 11:55 AM on 03/27/08
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Spiffy, this could be whale fur from Dune.
Miranda Kali at 12:03 PM on 03/27/08
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@Garrison Dean:
A bar. With all the work they did, they needed one.
Annalee Newitz at 01:24 PM on 03/27/08
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Fraggle rights! Fraggle rights!
Miranda Kali at 01:41 PM on 03/27/08
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@Annalee Newitz:
Next fashion show that features Furore, someone really should have a sign with deceased fraggles and the slogan "Furores are Murderors!"
AmishJohn at 01:49 PM on 03/27/08
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All the Doozers have to do is slip a little Strytchnine into their radish-flavored girders...
Garrison Dean, King... at 01:55 PM on 03/27/08
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@Miranda Kali: How about...

I'm in a furor over Furores!!

Miss Piggy could go nude in an ad for PETA.
Evil Tortie's Mom at 03:35 PM on 03/27/08
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I thought she was covered in tribbles when I first looked at the picture.

Tribbles would make an excellent source of fur -- not violent like mink, reproduce faster than rabbits or chinchilla. Sure, they're small, but you make it up in volume.
Jeff-Minor at 06:07 AM on 03/28/08
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Grey Area, it's so nice to have found a group where whale fur is mentioned. I was going to say this model might be a Corino princess, with a whale fur frock, but didn't think anyone else would get it.
zenpoet at 08:06 AM on 03/28/08
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Hopefully its not pronounced the same way the German's pronounce Fuhrer.

I really don't need a bunch of goosesteppers saluting my wife's new faux-fur stole.