Giant ‘Snake’ to Squeeze Louis Vuitton Over Cruel Animal Skin Sales

Giant ‘Snake’ to Squeeze Louis Vuitton Over Cruel Animal Skin Sales

What: On Thursday, a PETA supporter dressed as a stunning 6-meter-long python will confront tourists and locals outside the Louis Vuitton Hong Kong Landmark to condemn the cruelty of python-skin purses and other animal-skin accessories sold by Louis Vuitton and its parent and sister companies. After Hong Kong, the snake will head to Singapore, Sydney and Seoul.

A PETA investigation revealed that workers at two Indonesian slaughterhouses that supply LVMH – which owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, and other fashion brands – pinned struggling pythons down by the neck before bashing them over the head with a hammer and impaling them on hooks while they were still moving.

“Pythons feel pain and value their lives just as all animals do, yet they are bludgeoned, pierced through the skull, and often skinned alive for a Louis Vuitton jacket or handbag,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA is calling on shoppers to never buy goods made from reptiles and demand that LVMH leave pythons in peace and out of their designs.”

Where: Pedestrian area  outside Louis Vuitton Hong Kong Landmark, Shop 7-17, G/F, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong (near the junction of Des Voeux Road Central and Pedder Street). See Google Maps link here.

When: Thursday, 5 June, at 12:00 p.m.

Pythons slit open with razorblades and skinned, likely while alive and conscious.

Credit: PETA Asia

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—points out that Every Animal is Someone. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow PETA Asia on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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