However, even then, he warns that it could be decades before the UK can be declared a mink-free zone.
"We have a lot of fun with it, " said Ms. Batiz, who's been decamping with her husband at the Waldorf. (So I suppose business has to be pretty good.) In fact, she said she got into a conversation on the hotel's taxi line with an elegant woman in a full-length mink who asked her the nature of her company.
Soirees in this storied piece of real estate are held in the classic ballroom which comes complete with chandeliers and a coat-check closet handy for keeping track of a few dozen mink coats or, say, 200 winter overcoats.
That could be because the rest of the world still envisions the New Russia as a land of rhinestone-encrusted SUVs and mink-swaddled mistresses. (Think of the guy in the DirecTV commercial with the tiny giraffe.) Snob may be the antidote to that image, but its name doesn't convey that.
Belstaff's coats were tempting in earth-tone shearlings for every lifestyle, and KaufmanFranco wrapped a tough-girl muse in a little luxury, lining a black leather driving coat with mink.
The remaining pelt supply comes the old-fashioned way: The U.S. has 150, 000-plus pro and part-time fur hunters, mostly in the Midwest and Northeast, who pursue the likes of muskrats, beavers, raccoons, bobcats and, to a lesser extent, foxes, coyotes and mink--all under strict state regulation.
Mr. de la Renta showed short-sleeve outerwear and a silk merino "cardigan coat" with a mink collar.
" Promising to continue a string of "crazy expensive" comedy bits, he introduced on stage the Kentucky Derby-winning horse Mine That Bird, wearing what he said was a "mink Snuggie" and watching "restricted NFL Super Bowl footage.
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Nazarene was considered a "mink coat church" at the time, Tillard said, with an educated, affluent African-American congregation.
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