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July 6, 2021
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London PETA UK is celebrating the event after Puig – the owner of Carolina Herrera, Paco Rabanne, Jean Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci and Dries Van Noten – of luxury fashion apparel has confirmed that it will stop selling items made from snake, crocodile and other exotic animals. A family owned Spanish company that “aims to leave a better world for the next generation”, PETA UK assured PETA UK that “steps have already been taken to no longer use exotic skins” for its CH Carolina Herrera sub-brand, which means crocodile and python leather accessories currently available will be the last.
“Given Gauthier’s out-of-the-box and Herrera’s elegance, they signal that no matter your fashion taste, exotic animal skins have no place in fashion today,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “This wise decision heralds a major victory for PETA and an even bigger victory for animals that do not face a brutal end.”
PETA and its subsidiaries have published a series of revelations of the exotic leather industry that show rampant brutality. A recent PETA Asia revelation shows that the mouths and anuses of pythons are covered with rubber bands, and that workers cut a hole in the head or tail of the snakes to insert a hose and inflate the animals with an air compressor, causing them to suffocate. death. Alligators are usually kept in stinking water in damp, dark sheds until slaughter, when their necks are opened and a metal rod is inserted into their brains, often while they are still conscious. And one-year-old ostriches are transported by trucks to slaughterhouses, where workers turn them upside down, stun and slit their throats.
The exotic leather industry also poses a significant public health risk, with experts warning that these unsanitary and crowded conditions are ideal breeding grounds for viruses such as the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic believed to be alive. – a farm-like animal market where exotic skins are brought from.
Puig brands join a growing list of leading designers and retailers, including Calvin Klein, Chanel, Victoria Beckham and Karl Lagerfeld, who have banned the sale of exotic leathers.
PETA is calling on other top fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Prada to ban exotic leather.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to wear,” is opposed to arrogance, the views of supporters of human supremacy, according to which animals are nothing more than a commodity. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…