Morwenna Ferrier 

Bear essentials: faux fur inspired by The Revenant

Looking like a bear might not be the obvious choice when it comes to faux fur, but it’s certainly a trend on the high street. And if it helps Leonardo Di Caprio win an Oscar for The Revenant, why not?
  
  

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant.
Bearing up ... Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. Photograph: AP

The aim is not to look exactly like a bear, but to get close. That’s the style lesson from The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which follows a group of fur trappers shlepping through the gorge wilderness of the unchartered mid-west, and touches on betrayal, blizzards and bear violence. It has also created one of the most striking images of awards season 2016 – that of a bearded Di Caprio in a massive fur coat, semaphoring determination, endurance and survival. Since we don’t endorse real fur, and since shaggy faux fur is two-a-penny on the high street, it seems fitting to homage the film that should finally bag the actor an Oscar with a selection of some of the best bearish faux furs right now. They don’t look quite as realistic as Di Caprio’s, but what price ethics?

 

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