Tell Louis Vuitton to Stop Selling Crocodile Skin

One of the most gruesome aspects of the fashion world is the exotic skin industry, which is responsible for the deaths of millions of animals each year. The animals killed for exotic skins include crocodiles, alligators, caimans, snakes, and lizards, species whose sentience is often overlooked and undervalued. This allows them to be treated with a total lack of consideration for their suffering in captivity and the painful nature of their deaths during slaughter.

While over 20 major fashion brands, including giants like Nike and Adidas, as well as luxury designers like Chanel and Vivienne Westwood, have committed to stopping the use of exotic skins in their products, a few holdouts continue to sell these extremely cruel items.

Louis Vuitton is one of the worst offenders when it comes to clinging to the cruelty of the past, as they continue to use crocodile skins to make wallets, shoes, and handbags.

Every year, more than 30,000 crocodiles are violently killed in Vietnam just so that out of touch clothing brands can use their skins to make accessories.

These helpless animals endure horrific living conditions crowded into small, barren, tanks and cages for months or even a few years before they are killed. Crocodiles can live for 60 years in the wild, but in the name of old-fashioned fashion they are killed before they even reach the age of two. These ancient, feeling, creatures often have their throats cut and their spinal cords severed but continue to remain conscious as they are skinned alive, suffering unimaginable agony. 

Louis Vuitton needs to get with the times and end their outdated, archaic dependence on exotic animal skins to meet the demands of today’s compassionate consumers.

Take Action Now

Please join Species Unite in urging Louis Vuitton to embrace the modern era of compassionate fashion by committing to end the use of exotic skins and the cruel torture and exploitation of crocodiles.