bye bye croc bags
UPDATE: Kudos To Ann Taylor For Staying At The Forefront Of Conscientious Couture. 11/6/12: Kinship Circle creates consumer-complaint style alerts targeting outlets with fur, skin or wool on their shelves. Upscale retailer Ann Taylor — a one-time target that deleted fur goods in 2006 — now takes extraordinary strides in cruelty-free couture with the removal of exotic skins as well. People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) states that the parent company of both Ann Taylor and LOFT clothing/accessory brands, Ann Inc., has nixed products made with exotic-animal skins.
The company's revised animal welfare policy says, “Our private label brands do not use real animal fur and do not knowingly sell products with skins considered to be exotic, including but not limited to alligator, crocodile and ostrich.“ Mango, H&M, Victoria's Secret and PUMA are among other firms that ban exotic-animal skins. Alligators, crocodiles, snakes, lizards and other exotics are hunted or farmed for their skins in Africa, Asia and the United States. Alligators and crocodiles die horribly, knifed in the neck with metal chisels or bashed with metal bats. A PETA undercover probe even found “live snakes nailed to trees by their heads before their skin was torn off their writhing bodies.”
LEARN MORE:
- No Exotic Skins for Ann Taylor, LOFT
- VIDEO, Joaquin Phoenix Reveals Exotic-Skins Cold-Blooded Horrors: Inside The Exotic Skins Trades. “If you see people wearing or selling exotic skins, please get them to watch PETA's hard-hitting expose, narrated by The Master star and longtime PETA pal Joaquin Phoenix, to learn about the cruelty behind their fashion choices.”