By Ed Chatterton

The founder of PETA has reignited a long-running feud with the editor of Vogue magazine by bizarrely sending her a scarf made of human hair - from her own head.

Animal activist Ingrid Newkirk, 76, most famously tossed a dead racoon on to the plate of Anna Wintour while she dined at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York as a protest against fur back in 1997.

Now, the charity boss has sent the magazine's global editorial director another gift in the form of a scarf woven from human hair, which has been shorn from her own head.

The strange stunt comes ahead of London Fashion Week as PETA urges the industry to stop using cashmere made from "crudely tearing hair from goats".

The pair have had a long-standing feud since the infamous racoon incident and Newkirk storming

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