Tell Pharrell to Reject Louis Vuitton’s Cruelty!

Pharrell Williams, Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director, shamelessly clings to cruel, archaic practices by using fur and wild-animal skins in his designs. PETA US has informed him that pythons are bashed with a steel hammer before their skin is peeled off using razorblades and that animals such as minks go insane from intense confinement in cramped cages on fur factory farms before workers gas them to death or break their neck.

When challenged over his use of fur, Pharrell dismissively said, “It’s a design thing … it is what it is.” His indifference to animal exploitation condemns snakes, ostriches, crocodiles, and minks to a painful death at an abattoir.

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By using wild-animal skins, Pharrell is callously ignoring the following cruelty:

Workers at a supplier to Louis Vuitton’s parent company bash pythons with steel hammers before suspending them by the jaw 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.
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.
On crocodile farms that supplied skin to Louis Vuitton’s parent company, the animals were packed together in concrete pits – some of which were narrower than the length of their body.
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, faeces, and rotting food. Many of the animals 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 wild-animal skins and fur from any future Louis Vuitton collections.

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Mr

Pharrell

Williams

Louis Vuitton

Dear Mr Williams:

I just discovered that you use wild-animal skins and fur in your designs – and I’m appalled you’d support these cruel industries.

PETA entities’ investigative footage into the supply chain of Louis Vuitton’s parent company revealed that suffering is inevitable and rampant in the wild animal–skins trade. Workers have been observed bashing pythons on the head with a steel hammer, ramming a hose down their throat, and inflating them with water before using a razorblade to cut their skin – likely while they’re still alive and able to feel pain.

Crocodiles are kept in filthy concrete pits, some narrower than the length of their body, for over a year before they’re violently killed.

Ostriches used for the bumpy-textured skin purses sold by Louis Vuitton are confined to barren dirt feedlots before being sent to a slaughterhouse, where they’re killed in full view of their terrified flockmates.

Animals used for fur are confined to filthy, cramped cages before workers break their neck or gas, electrocute, or suffocate them. Many are skinned alive.

You can stop funding these hideous industries by banning wild-animal skins and fur from your future collections. Please, help end this animal abuse now.

Sincerely,

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Tell Pharrell to Reject Louis Vuitton’s Cruelty!

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