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As the men’s creative director for Louis Vuitton, musician Pharrell Williams still clings to cruel, archaic practices by using fur and wild animals’ skin in his designs.
When challenged about using fur, he straight-up said, “It’s a design thing. … [I]t is what it is.” 😒
Here’s some of the cruelty that Pharell ignores by using fur and the skin of wild animals:
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Workers supplying Louis Vuitton’s parent company bash pythons with steel hammers before lifting them by their jaws and pumping them full of water. The snakes are then slit open with razor blades. 😨 A reptile expert who watched footage of these acts confirmed that the pythons were prob “conscious across all stages” of the slaughter.
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Ostriches used for Louis Vuitton’s textured purses suffer in barren feedlots before they’re forced into giant kill boxes, flipped upside down, and electrically stunned, after which their throats are slit in full view of their terrified flockmates.
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Crocodile farms that supplied skins to Louis Vuitton’s parent company packed the animals together in concrete pits, some narrower than the length of their bodies.
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Most of the world’s fur comes from fur factory farms, where animals are confined to cramped wire cages that are often caked with hair, feces, and rotting food. Many animals on fur factory farms experience severe psychological distress from their intensive confinement before being gassed, electrocuted, or killed in other crude ways. 😱
No clothing is worth this cruelty—please urge Pharrell to ban fur and wild animals’ skin from any future Louis Vuitton collections!