Comments on: Fashion WTF: Hermes Now Breeding Crocodiles For Their Handbags

By: Dgredy

Dgredy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:56:22 +0000

hahaha you got him !!! it is so true he is talking about poverty does he know how many kids in africa you can feed with 50k!! harum the joke is on you

By: Dgredy

Dgredy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:52:51 +0000

some humas see eating animals as suvivor as thats how is meant to be and you know eating meat is been around forever, but killing an animals for pure plesure has no excuse. and plaese domt agree with harun he is just an idiot !

By: Dgredy

Dgredy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:47:32 +0000

huran haram blah blah! it doesnt matter you really have to stop giving your opinion because you really dont know what you are saying! animals dont kill us for fun or fashion like we do, if they kill is to protect themselves or their young. and man think because they have the machine power they can do whatever they want to animals and its wrong. and did you know that some natzis saw hte killing of jewish people as art?????? so does that make it ok!?

By: Dgredy

Dgredy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:30:15 +0000

HARUM: no matter how many other animal abuses are out there you should never ever justified this! i know people eat meat and wear cows and other abuses and it does not mean its ok so breeding crocodiles for their skin is horrible and there is nothing artistic anout abusing animals, and killing 4 crocodiles for one bloody handbag so air heads like stupid victoria beckham can look “good” is so so stupid.

By: Orni

Orni — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:55:07 +0000

And at the same time Lacoste is saving crocodiles with the “save your logo” operation.

Will never buy anything to Hermes.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:47:48 +0000

No handbag is worth $50,000 and never will be. Hermes is nothing but a joke.
They overcharge for everything they have and it is nothing special.
Seeing that they are so ignorant to want to breed and kill crocs for a handbag is obsurd. Anyone can see that.
I am a horse trainer and we have boycotted Hermes saddlery for years due to their uncaring ways. May whoever buys one of their bags rot in hell be they because that is what they deserve.

By: Victoria Beckham Slammed For Sporting Hermes Bags

Victoria Beckham Slammed For Sporting Hermes Bags — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:09:51 +0000

[...] Victoria Beckham has been spotted carrying a Hermes bag around town. Hermes is a company that uses crocodile skin in its products, and has recently started to breed its own crocs for the fashion line. [...]

By: VeggieTart

VeggieTart — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:28:20 +0000

Niece, do you work for Hermes? Because you sound like a PR piece.

The Ford Motor Company, no friend to the environment, determined that leather uses more resources and is more polluting than its substitutes. I mean, how do you think they keep the skin–and that’s what it is, the skins of animals–from rotting on the user’s body? They have to treat it with all sorts of nasty carcinogenic chemicals. Which is also why it isn’t biodegradable!

I think it’s pretty SICK to breed crocodiles so they can become handbags. If they really cared about crocodiles, they’d find a way to contribute to habitat preservation, not breed them so they can kill them for rich womens’ vanity.

By: niece

niece — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:06:23 +0000

Just a couple of facts to be considered:

Hermes’ leather goods accounted for 53.2%, over US$ 938 million, of the groups 2008 revenue, currently they have 309 points of sale (with plans of expanding) world wide.

Hermes’ directly provides employment to some tens of thousand globally & is a direct source of income for many other industries (logistics, construction, agriculture, etc.). The net effect of their attempt to somehow “sustain” their supply of leather may be viewed as, for lack of a better term, nice. Breeding their own crocodiles (crocodylus porusus) lessens the ecological impact of their operations: crocs stays in the wild, will have lesser hunters, ecological balance has one less corporate monster to worry about. It is also worth noting that breeding will cost the company more than acquiring their leather in the open market.

Also, PVC bags from China are mostly sourced from undocumented sweat shops. Many factories in China (documented or undocumented) are not really into waste management, one creek near an industrial center actually turned purple thanks to the PVC bags & other leather factories surrounding it.

By: Ranger Rick

Ranger Rick — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:34:37 +0000

Better to “farm” them than to extirpate the remainder of their dwindling populations in the wild. Depending, of course, on the particular sub-species.

sad.