Article: ALI MACGRAW ASKS KORS TO NIX THE FUR.

Byline: Rosemary Feitelberg

NEW YORK -- Ali MacGraw has appealed to her friend Michael Kors to stop using fur.

Traces of her signature style have been seen in the designer's collections, and Kors even took the actress as his date to the CFDA awards two years ago. But that hasn't deterred her from sending him a handwritten letter on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

A Michael Kors spokeswoman said the company only received the letter Friday. "We're in a consumer-driven business. We had a fur license in the Eighties, and we discontinued it when people stopped buying fur. When people started buying it again, we started ...

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