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Bikini-clad animal rights activists dress in crocodile masks as they protest outside designer store Hermes over their use of animal skins
- Three women in crocodile masks and bikinis protested outside Hermes store
- The women protested over the use of crocodile skin products made by Hermes
- PETA has organised crocodile skin protests at Hermes stores around the world
- The protest comes after Hermes plans to build a crocodile farm in Darwin
Bikini-clad animal rights activists have dressed up in crocodile masks to protest against designer bag store Hermes’ use of reptile skin.
The trio wearing pale green two-pieces held up up signs in the shape of handbags as the campaigned on Sydney’s King Street in the CBD on Thursday.
The women, representing PETA, were campaigning against the French luxury brand’s use of crocodile skins and their plans to build a crocodile farm in Darwin.
The bikini clad women stood out the front holding handbag shaped placards with anti-crocodile skin slogans
The women protesting wore nothing but crocodile masks and bikinis during their protest in Sydney
The protest was a reaction to Hermes continuing to use crocodile skins in their products and its plans to build a crocodile farm in Darwin, Northern Territory
The three signs read: ‘Cruelty to crocs unmasked’, ‘Animals die for exotic skins’ and ‘Hermes bin crocodile skin’.
In Novemeber last year Hermès has come under fire after it was revealed it has plans to build Australia’s biggest crocodile factory farm at a site near Darwin.
The French luxury fashion house partnered with farmer Mick Burns, known as the Crocodile King, to buy The Sweet Life, a former melon and banana farm at Lambells Lagoon, for $7.25 million reported the ABC.
The controversial investment was expected to increase the number of farmed crocodiles in the Northern Territory by 50 per cent, with some 50,000 saltwater crocodiles being farmed for skin and meat products.
Animal activists from PETA preparing for the protests with their eye-catching crocodile masks
In 2015 Australian model Rochelle Relf participated in a similar protest outside the Sydney Hermes store about the use of crocodile skins in fashion
This is not the first protest of this type at the Sydney Hermes store. In 2015, Rochelle Relf posed as a slaughtered crocodile during a similar protest.
PETA has also held crocodile or alligator related protests at Hermes stores in London, Tokyo and Paris.
Hermes Australia was contacted but made no comment.
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