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Hermès Says It’s Talking With Jane Birkin About Crocodile Leather Used In Namesake HandBags

(twicepix)If you’ve got a product named after you, should you be able to control how that item is made? Actress Jane Birkin is certainly trying to have her say, telling the company to take her name off the luxury handbag named after her because they’re made from crocodiles who are inhumanely slaughtered. Hermès International SCA says it’s holding talks with Birkin, noting that it was also shocked by an animal-rights group’s video showing reptiles who were still alive and moving after being shot by a bolt gun at a Texas farm, Hermès Chief Executive Officer Axel Dumas said, according to a report from Bloomberg. “We agree that the best international rules should be applied in our crocodile farms,” Dumas said at an earnings presentation in Paris.

 

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