SEOUL (AFP) – South Koreas capital city has told Italian fashion house Fendi to remove all fur items from a show of its Fall/Winter collection due to complaints from animal rights groups, officials said Monday.
“We have received complaints from animal rights activists and saw negative public opinion on the Internet… we cant let such a controversial thing be staged at a public property,” a spokesman for the city government told AFP.
Fendi has scheduled the show on June 2 at a newly-built floating island on the Han River, which the city wants to promote as a landmark.
The Italian firm said city officials last week threatened to cancel the event unless all fur items were removed from the catwalk.
Fendi described the short notice as “difficult to understand… i
