Corrnelia Guest's Many PETA-Friendly Projects

Cornelia Guest shows off her 47-year-old body as the latest celebrity to add her voice to PETA’s ‘I’d Rather Go Naked’ campaign. The daughter of American actress and socialite C.Z. Guest looks rather like Lady Godiva. Admitting that she used to wear fur, Cornelia Guest says ‘no more’.

Guest is an avid vegetarian who stopped eating meat almost a decade ago. Giving up fur coats was a natural evolution of that decision. A pescetarian, the socialite doesn’t eat chicken either.

From left: Lloyd Grove, Cornelia Guest, Dan Mathews and Stuart Elliott. Photo By Courtesy of 92YTRIBECAToday’s WWD reports that PETA’s Dan Mathews made no apologies for his group’s in your face tactics at a 92YTribeca confab last night.

The activist told fellow panelists Cornelia Guest, The New York Times’ Stuart Elliott and Newsweek’s and The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, “Fortunately, PETA is not selling a product so it doesn’t matter if something falls flat.”

In fact, PETA is becoming more strategic in its efforts to change minds, buying a bit of stock for admittance to corporate shareholder meetings, introducing resolutions at those meetings and looking the part.

WWD writes that PETA is teaming up with Stella McCartney for a New York Fashion Week special event in February. As a designer Stella McCartney as long embraced not using leather and other skins in her collections.

Returning to Cornelia Guest, we learn that she also has an animal-friendly (or cruelty-free as Guest prefers to call them) handbag collection and a vegan cookie label that benefits The Humane Society of New York, where she is a board member. The socialite will deliver a seasonal lifestyle book out early May 2012, with Bruce Weber doing the photography.

Bloomingdale’s carries several of the Cornelia Guest eco-friendly handbags. Take a look.