It's a sad paradox that the cruelest and most degrading way of trying to look beautiful is also the most self-defeating.
For if one publicly walks down the street wearing the coat of an animal killed for its fur, then many people will shudder and recoil in disgust at the ugliness of the eyesore you create.
Today public knowledge of the frightful suffering which went into a fur-coat simply eclipses the glitziness its wearer hopes to convey.
For in trying to make oneself appear more beautiful in the eyes of others, one has simply managed to appear distasteful instead.
Happily, there are far better ways of looking good - both to other people and to oneself.
Of course, if you pay someone like Anait Bian enough for her wares, she will feed your credulity and capacity for self-deception.
She may even claim you'll look beautiful by wearing them.
She won't tell you that most people will privately think "Yuk!" in your presence.
She won't tell you that the social elite whom you may aspire to join only disdain fur as a nouveau riche vulgarity.
She won't tell you how you are paying for extreme animal cruelty.