The latest protest target is Lutech and its owner: Apax Partners! Just in time for CAFT’s Feral Summer Tour.
Just two days ago, Milan Fashion Week lost its fourth partner: Acqua Fiuggi. Now, CAFT is focusing on the latest company foolish enough to partner with Camera Moda: Lutech Group.
WHY LUTECH GROUP AND APAX PARTNERS?
Lutech Group is a tech company based in Milan and majority owned by London-based private equity firm, Apax Partners. Lutech has offices in several cities in Italy including: Milan, Rome, Parma, and Turin; in Spain: Barcelona and Madrid, and in Germany: Munich. You can find the list of offices on its website.
Apax Partners, as the majority owner of Lutech Group, has a say in business decisions related to the company. Therefore, they can direct Lutech to cut ties with Milan Fashion Week.
Apax Partners is headquartered in London and New York City, but its executives’ board positions open this campaign up to a much wider net of cities. All of this can be found on their website. CAFT will update this section of the blog with those locations in a few days. In the meantime, do your research and get ready to hit the streets.
Lutech and Apax are now priority #1 for the anti-fur movement. Luckily, there are many possibilities to get involved in this campaign and apply pressure on Apax to direct Lutech to cut ties with Milan Fashion Week.
THE ASK
We want Lutech Group to end its support of Milan Fashion Week until the event enforces a ban on fur on the runway. For Apax Partners, the ask is to direct Lutech to end its support of Milan Fashion Week. No company with any integrity should support an event that continues to allow such extreme animal cruelty. Any company that does is signaling that fur isn’t a hard line for them. And to those companies we say: get ready to answer to the anti-fur movement.
Camera Moda knows full well that there’s an active campaign against them, yet they’re willing to throw their partners under the bus and drag them into the protest campaign, all to keep letting LVMH brands use fur on the runway.
If we were Lutech and Apax Partners, we’d reconsider our partnership with Carlo Capasa and Camera Moda ASAP.
WHAT YOU CAN DO IMMEDIATELY
Digital action: The first action you can take immediately is on your keyboard. Please fill out the form below and send an email to the decision makers at Lutech and Apax asking them to boycott Milan Fashion Week.
TWO SEPARATE EMAIL ACTIONS BELOW: LUTECH GROUP & APAX
ORGANIZE AN ACTION
The Week of Action against Milan Fashion Week is happening June 19 – 23. Get out there and make it happen. Be on the lookout in the next few days for the list of protest locations to be added.
CAFT FERAL SUMMER TOUR
We’ll be in London, Milan, and Paris from June 14 – 25 with one focus: ending fur at Milan Fashion Week! Join us for protests and other events. You can find the schedule and sign-up form here.
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