In an effort to keep up with demand for their ultra-exclusive handbags, French fashion house Hermes has taken to farming their very own crocodiles. I’m not even an animal activist and this kinda pisses me off.
Animals are bred and killed for their skins all the time….it’s nothing new. And the fashion business is certainly no stranger to outrage and attacks over these practices. But the breeding and killing isn’t usually done by the fashion house itself, at least not that I’m aware of. I guess you could call this the first designer crocodile farm.
It just seems sickly ironic, an Hermes crocodile farm. High fashion meets the Australian Outback. I wonder if they serve the animals tea and speak French to them. I bet it’s a classy place where the crocodiles are all housed in marble pools and fed only the finest French food, like caviar. It’s probably more like a day spa for reptiles with plush Hermes robes….I hope you get where I’m going with this.
After reading a bit about how the Hermes bags are made, the most notable of which is the Birkin, it seems excessive and cruel. Here’s some math: It takes roughly four crocodiles to make one bag. And roughly 3,000 bags are made a year. And sold for for upwards of $5,000. That means 12,000 animals are killed yearly to produce these bags. All so Posh Spice can carry the latest accessory.
No wonder there are so many croc attacks on humans in Australia. The animals are fighting for their lives.
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