Jul
22
Jacques Kaplan, 83, Bold Furrier, Dies.
“People used to say, ‘Jacques, you can’t be serious! Edible fur? Do you mean fur you can eat? Have you been the recipient of a blow to the head? Are you clinically insane?’ And I would always tell them: ‘Ha! Not only fur you can eat! Your bourgeois lack of imagination sickens me, because I envision fur that can be drunk like a milkshake, pressed into bar form and sweetened like a Chunky, or semi-liquified into a kind of paste or gel that can be easily transformed into any number of cunning shapes and shipped in huge containers of liquid nitrogen to every point of the compass!’ And if it hadn’t been for the timorousness of the FDA and the National Furriers’ Association and some of my other enemies who I may not name here, my dream would have become a reality! And then I would have ruled… THE WORLD!!!!” (Interview for unpublished biography by writer Ron Givens: 1996)
