No Fur Selling at Guess anymore!

customerservice(at)guess.com, luca.tacchi(at)guess.it, andrea.bargiotti(at)guess.it, info(at)guessuk.com

GUESS, Inc. (US head office)
Los Angeles, CA 90021

GUESS Italia (European HQ)
FIRENZE (Florence) Italy

GUESS UK
Chelsea Harbour, London, SW10 0XD

Dear Madam or Sir of Guess:

Once again I urge GUESS to choose conscientious couture over pain and suffering. Please initiate a permanent fur-free policy. As far as I know this has not been done yet.

Fur farms are low-budget operations where caged animals live stacked in rows in open sheds. Intensively confined their entire lives, they frantically pace in feces, urine, rusty cans. Some perish from dehydration, starvation or self-mutilation.

Wild animals normally travel miles each day, raise their young, burrow, dig, and express other traits. On fur farms, they resort to coping mechanisms such as constant pacing, head bobbing, self-mutilation, infanticide, and cannibalism.

Death by genital electrocution is used to ensure undamaged pelts. A metal
conductor is lodged in the animal's throat and an electric prod is pushed
inside the rectum. The killer flips a switch to blast 240 volts of
electricity through the animal's body. The electrical current only works as
a paralyzing agent. The animal remains conscious for two or more minutes to
feel the excruciating force of massive heart attack.

Other fur-bearing animals die by cervical dislocation (neck-popping), lethal injection of junk chemicals such as pesticides, or unfiltered carbon
monoxide asphyxiation.

Animals trapped in the wild suffer no less. Those not immediately crushed in leghold traps or snares gnaw their teeth to the jawbone or chew off their feet to escape. Any who survive mutilation, exposure or starvation are clubbed, crushed (trappers stomp them to death) or drowned after languishing on trap lines for days.

Moreover, indiscriminate trapping devices snap shut on dogs, cats, deer,
livestock and 2 to 10 times as many non-target animals. Endangered species
are among the millions of "trash animals" dumped by trappers every year.

I cannot in good conscience purchase GUESS designs as long as the company
supports the brutal fur industry. I encourage you to join Calvin Klein,
Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney,
Vivienne Westwood, Todd Oldham, Marc Bouwer, and other popular designers
that market sophisticated collections without real fur.

Please notify me about any decisions to implement a fur-free policy.

Yours sincerely,