Almost everyone is a fan of the Hermès Birkin bag—except Jane Birkin. The British star recently asked the luxury label to remove her name from their iconic bag after reports surfaced that the house was using crocodile skin that was inhumanely harvested to create the handbags.
"Having been alerted to the cruel practices reserved for crocodiles during their slaughter to make Hermès handbags carrying my name...I have asked Hermès to de-baptise the Birkin Croco until better practices in line with international norms can be put in place," Birkin said in a statement.
This comes after Peta released undercover images and video (warning: extremely graphic) of allegedly Hermès-sourced crocodile farms mistreating animals by stabbing still-conscious reptiles, shooting them, and hanging them in a “bleed rack” when they are still moving.
