Photos: ‘Style That Slays’ PETA Ads Slam Harrods for Selling Wild-Animal Skins
29 November 2024
Photos: ‘Style That Slays’ PETA Ads Slam Harrods for Selling Wild-Animal Skins
London – Today, on Black Friday, a new PETA billboard – showcasing two confronting images – has popped up in luxury retail hotspot Knightsbridge, slamming the fashion industry’s cruel use of the skins of crocodiles, lizards, ostriches, snakes, and other wildlife. The appeal urging shoppers to buy vegan is located near Harrods, which sells items from Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Hermès, all of which have been implicated in investigations by PETA entities revealing extreme violence and animal suffering in their supply chains.
The billboard is located at 75 Sloane Avenue, London, SW3 3DH. High-resolution images are available here and here. Credit: LD Event Photography.
“Behind every ostrich- or reptile-skin handbag was an individual who endured a life of misery, pain, and filth before being hacked to bits,” says PETA Vice President Elisa Allen. “PETA urges shoppers to send Harrods and other stores that are complicit in cruelty a clear message that chic, sustainable vegan fashion is what compassionate consumers want.”
Ostriches communicate using a variety of sounds, including chirping and honking; hatchling alligators generally stay together in a pod for up to three years; and snakes smell with their tongue and can tell which direction a smell is coming from. But multiple investigations by PETA entities have exposed how workers in the fashion industry inflate live snakes, bash them on the head with hammers, and cut them with razors; hack at crocodiles’ necks and shove metal rods down their spines; chop off conscious lizards’ heads with machetes; and electrically stun ostriches before slitting their throats in full view of their terrified flockmates.
PETA notes that other purveyors of luxury fashions – including Selfridges, Mytheresa, Mulberry, Victoria Beckham, Chanel, Burberry, Diane von Furstenberg, and Vivienne Westwood – have banned the skins of reptiles or other wildlife, and nearly all top luxury fashion houses have banned the use of fur.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the organisation on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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