Paris Fashion Week: Hermes Spring Summer 2025 show gets interrupted by animal rights activists

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Check out the highlights from Hermes' Nadege Vanhee's Spring Summer 2025 show during the Paris Fashion Week...

For her spring-summer runway show, Hermes designer Nadege Vanhee sent out a parade of mesh crop tops and calfskin coats in tan hues on Saturday, a lineup that was briefly interrupted by three animal rights activists...

A protester holds a placard reading "Hermes stop exotic skin" as a model presents a creation by designer Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski..

The show was kicking off with a series of light, beige looks -- loose trousers, sheer tops and a suede coat cinched in the back -- when the first protestor from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) group burst on to the catwalk, wielding a sign calling for the label to stop using exotic skins..

PETA also targeted the Dior show earlier this week for the brand's use of feathers, with just one protestor very briefly entering the catwalk..

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