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Pharrell Williams, as Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director, shamelessly clings to cruel, archaic practices by using fur and “exotic skins” in his designs.
When challenged about using fur, Pharrell dismissively stated, “It’s a design thing … it is what it is.”
This is the cruelty that Pharrell callously ignores by using wild-animal skins and fur:
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Workers supplying Louis Vuitton’s parent company bash pythons with steel hammers before suspending them by their jaws and pumping them full of water. They then slit the snakes open with razorblades. A reptile expert who watched the footage confirmed it’s probable that the pythons were “conscious across all stages” of the attempted 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.
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Crocodile farms that supplied skins to Louis Vuitton’s parent company packed the animals into concrete pits—some of which were 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 slowly go insane from the stress of intensive confinement before being gassed, electrocuted, or killed in other crude ways.
Please join PETA in urging Pharrell to ban “exotic skins” and furs from any future Louis Vuitton collections!