Harrods Bids Salon ‘So Long’

Fur was literally flying out of Harrods in London last Saturday . The luxury department store almost gave coats away and closed its 100-year-old fur salon. Animal rights activists claimed a victory, but a Harrods spokesperson denied the firm had bowed to outside pressure. The store will continue to offer a number of fur-related services, including a cold-storage facility that houses 7,000 furs during the summer. Despite the heat closer to home, Dennis Rosoff, owner of Rosoff Furs in Beverly Hills, didn’t duck our questions: “It’s really up for grabs if the industry will survive. But I think we will. I think it’s a hypocritical situation, when you realize that every Thanksgiving 150 million turkeys are slaughtered in the United States. Instead of asking me how I feel about Harrods, how about asking me how I feel about Aspen having an overwhelming vote in favor of fur? It was wonderful.”

CAMERA READY: Anne Bancroft tried out two new looks during a photo session for Lear’s magazine. “Straight and sultry” or “curly and fun” is how hair stylist Allen Edwards describes the variations of her shoulder-grazing classic cut. One thing Edwards did not change is the lock of golden blond hair that Bancroft, a brunette, had dyed to match the wig she donned for her role in a recent play, “The Mystery of the Rose Bouquet.”

THE MONOGRAM GAME: DKNY--Donna Karan’s mega-successful lower-priced sportswear collection--is the recipient of the greatest form of flattery--imitation. In January, Barami Enterprises came out with a line called BKNY. A Karan employee discovered a BKNY skirt in a New York discount store with a logo featuring “the same lettering style on the label,” according to Patti Cohen, vice president of advertising and public relations for Donna Karan. A trademark infringement was filed by DKNY and later withdrawn in lieu of an agreement between DKNY and BKNY, according to Baram Hakakian, president of Barami Enterprises and Cohen. Now, JNY, a collection by Jones New York, is hanging in department stores across the country. And the label looks a lot like Karan’s. Jones New York declined to comment on the similarity. Cohen says DKNY attorneys are “very much aware of the situation, but right now, nothing has been done.”