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The Cool vs. Cruel 2007 People's Choice: It's Your Call

October 23, 2007

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Stephanie Womack's dress was People's Choice winner.

Think you know fashion better than Tim Gunn?

Test your eye for style by voting now in our third annual Cool vs. Cruel fashion design contest. Then see how the People's Choice winner you help select compares to the judges' (sartorial guru Tim Gunn among them) choice.

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The people have chosen Stephanie Womack's black dress, garment 2, as the best!

The second and third runners-up are Glenn M. Glass, garment 3, and Thitka Amy Putiwitayathorn, garment 10.

The judges have picked their winner, too.

For a third year, staff from The HSUS traveled to Art Institutes schools around the country to talk to fashion students about the problems associated with animal fur, including cruelty and false labeling. The students were shown four runway designs from fall 2007 that used animal fur and instructed to reinterpret and improve them without the cruelty.

Check out the finalists below and choose your favorite!

Click on the photos below to see larger pictures of the designs, then select the best and click "Vote."
Tell your friends to vote, too—cut and paste this link into an email: www.humanesociety.org/cvcvote07. The system will allow you to vote more than once, but any votes after the first one will be discarded, so send it to as many people as you know.

The People's Choice winner will be announced at the 2007 Cool vs. Cruel awards ceremony on Nov. 8, 2007, along with the official third-, second- and first-place contest winners. See last year's winners and learn more about the contest. Click here to learn more about the Art Institutes.


No. 8 is the best! (Carrissa Raddatz, The Illinois Institute of Art--Chicago)	No. 5 is the best!(Wei-Jung Ting, The Art Institute of New York City)	No. 3 is the best! (Glenn M. Glass, The Illinois Institute of Art--Chicago)	No. 4 is the best! (Ashley Sharp, The Art Institute of Seattle)



No. 2 is the best! (Stephanie Womack, The Art Institute of Dallas)	No. 6 is the best! (Diep Pham, The Art Institute of New York City)	No. 7 is the best! (Stacia Larry, The Art Institute of Dallas)	No. 1 is the best! (Julia An, The Art Institute of Seattle)



No. 9 is the best! (Jolie Benner, The Art Institute of Portland)	No. 10 is the best! (Thitika Amy Phutiwitayathorn, The Art Institute of Vancouver)	No. 11 is the best! (Heather Farago, The Art Institute of Vancouver)	No. 12 is the best! (Natalie Walterhoefer, Miami International University of Art & Design)



No. 13 is the best! (Shawn Lewis, The Art Institute of Washington)	No. 14 is the best! (Ruth N. Zepeda, The Art Institute of Washington)	No. 15 is the best! (Pascal-Joel Weber, The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale)	No. 16 is the best! (Nathan Carter, The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale)

See more images of all the garments, including trimmings and detailing.