On the 26th of February two activists from the Italian antispecist group called Nemesi Animale have managed to break into a Byblos fashion show disrupting the catwalk and attracting attention over animal exploitation at the last Milano Fashion Week.
Nemesi Animale draws attention to animals tortured and killed by the fur and fashion industry (clicking on the pic will take you to their photo reportage of the demo)
The two Italian activists have walked the whole length of the catwalk holding up two banners saying “Leather and Fur are Torture”. The girls were taken away by the security under the flashes of hundreads of photographers who gathered to report over the Byblos fashion show but who bargained for that little extra. On their webpage Nemesi Animale states that the action was not carried out against Byblos but to emphasize the suffering of millions of animals killed and tortured every year in name of fashion. Nemesi Animale is an Italian antispecist group that aims to spread a vegan lifestyle and fight against animal slavery.
On the 25th of February the same group staged a demo at an Armani’s shows bringing the dead bodies of rabbits taken from the intensive farming of Lombardia and presented as “Victims of Armani’s fashion”. Armani is another designer who despite the pledge to go fur free few years ago but has recently turned his back and started to use dead animals’ coats in his recent collections.
The name of the group takes inspiration from Nemesis, “the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to ignorance. The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge based on merits and justice. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν [némein], meaning “to give what is due” [Wikipedia].
Filed under: activism, anti-fur, antispecism, Milano Fashion Week, Nemesi Animale
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