🖤🐊 🐍 let’s talk exotics 🐍🐊🖤
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it’s 2019, and luxury brands are banning exotic skins/fur. the entire state of california prohibits the importation/sale of python, crocodile, and alligator. .
in 2018, chanel announced that they are no longer creating products made from snakes, crocodiles, lizards, and stingrays because of ethical issues. .
however, the other major players in the industry like @hermes, @lvmh, and @kering_official have moved towards their ability to source exotic skins ethically by owning and operating reptile farms instead of sourcing them. that way, they’re caring for the animals through the entire supply chain and have control of the animal’s welfare. that way, the ever-increasing price point on exotics is because of the care that’s gone into caring for them. .
Kering chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault said, “it’s not an endangered species, but if we don’t change anything, they will become an endangered species.” .
though @ysl is owned by @kering_official, they prefer to use crocodile embossed leather—meaning it’s stamped with the scale pattern. I did some deep-dive searching and couldn’t find a single current YSL bags made of real alligator/croc for sale on google... they are all croc embossed. which leads me to the YSL mock croc card holder you see above that I purchased pre-owned on @poshmark. can you tell it’s not real crocodile scales? how do you feel about exotic skins? do you own any? are you pro or con? and finally, do you think about ethically-sourced materials when shopping, especially for luxury? .
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How do you bring punk to a label like luxury fashion that is so often associated with sophistication and elegance?
At Hermès, we all have been thinking about the meaning of objects. In this reflection, it happened that the safety pin appeared as one of the strongest and simplest object with an obvious use; universal, common, and sort of an icon of an efficient answer to a need. Its shape is the result of an absolute function, minimal technology, without any concern to aesthetic. But, it is also a strong symbol. It seemed that it could be perfect to turn into a Hermès object; to turn it into its opposite: a precious and sensual shape
When looking at the history of punk, were there any aspects of the movement that resonated with you?
It was my youth! The energy, the strength of provocation, the unconventional expectations was a big part of this moment. It also brought a very different and new sense of was beauty.
What were the challenges in upgrading punk in the context of luxury fashion?
I wanted to give the safety pin a new life, keeping its provocative power from its punk years, using its ability to create a link, or a locker, but turn it into a precious symbol how beautiful could be simplicity. I tried to make it more feminine, more sensual, more precious also, smoothing the surface, introducing more fluidity in the lines, more tension in the drawing.
—Pierre Harry, Vogue India, 2017
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