Top Ten fake fur and leopard print coats and jackets

Leopard print and fur is once again making it’s style debut this season with a range of celebrities sporting the love it or hate it trend, which manages to worm its way in nearly every other season.

Last week we reported that Pixie Geldof turned up to the Twlilight: New Moon New York premiere wearing a leopard print fake-fur gilet, while Alexa Chung and Lily Donaldson were also spotted in this trend at a fashion awards ceremony last week.

However, there will always be some designers and stars who take this trend that one step further opting for the real thing. This has caused a myriad of controversy over the years, with campaigners strongly protesting against it.

Many moons ago supermodels including Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford leant their support to a PETA campaign stating they would rather go nude than wear fur. However, Naomi Campbell went back on this a few years ago posing in a real fur jacket on the catwalk. Donna Karen has also been criticised for using the real thing in her collections.

And it seems the rage continues with PETA creating a Fur-Free Friday, after Thanksgiving where animal activists are going out of their way to remind holiday sale shoppers not to include fur on their shopping lists. One celebrity backing this campaign is actress Eva Mendes who said: “I didn’t always know how animals were killed for their fur, and I even wore fur once myself.”

However after she learnt that millions of animals are killed every year in the fur industry, she “swore that [she'd] never wear it again.”

She’s therefore advised us to fake it this season. We’ve taken heed and put together a gallery of the best fake fur coats and jackets out there.

However we want to hear from you. Do you agree that real fur is wrong or are protesters making too much of a big deal about it.

Click on the picture below to begin the gallery.