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On April 6, the luxury goods brand announced that it would stop selling its clothes, perfumes and other exclusive products to Russian customers abroad.
Chantal had closed all its stores in Russia, after more than 300 other brands will also do the same as a protest against the actions carried out by the government of Vladimir Putin.
There are many brands that have decided to punish Russia after the country’s army violently invaded Ukraine on February 24, for which a war is currently taking place that has affected millions of people. Among these firms is Chanel, which recently announced that it is restricting the sale of its products in the country, which is why various influencers have responded by cutting their bags.
On April 6, the luxury goods brand announced that it would stop selling its clothes, perfumes and other exclusive products to Russian customers abroad if they plan to take them back to their country, in response to sanctions.
“The most recent EU and Swiss sanctions laws include a prohibition on the ‘direct or indirect sale, supply, transfer or export of luxury goods to any natural or legal person, entity or body in Russia or for use in Russia,'” Chanel said on Wednesday.
Let us remember that Chantal had already closed all her stores in Russia, after more than 300 other brands will also do the same as a protest against the actions carried out by the government of Vladimir Putin.
Russian influencers cut up their Chanel bags to protest the brand
As a reason for protest and rejected this measure taken by the luxury brand, one of which was viralized by a video on its Instagram account, It was the Russian model Victoria Bonya, as she comes out taking scissors and cutting a black Chanel bag in two.
“If Chanel doesn’t respect its customers, why do we have to respect Chanel?” he said on the recording.
This measure led several Russian influencers and socialites to accuse the fashion house of “Russophobic” before the digital pulse.
Another figure who joined this protest was TV host and actress Marina Ermoshkina, who, like the model, used scissors to cut a dark gray bag on the brand’s Instagram social network.
“Not a single bag, not a single thing is worth my love for my country,” he wrote in the caption.
As well as highlighted that “It’s not worth my respect for myself. I am against Russophobia. I am against a brand that supports Russophobia.”
“An accessory that at some point decided to humiliate people, my compatriots. They decided to discriminate against people because of their nationality, which I will not tolerate. After all, the main thing is the principles and not what is in your hands, but what is inside you”, points out the driver.
This action was taken in a good way by a part of the digital pulse, who supported the Russians, while Others made comments of anger for not giving so much importance to the situation that is being experienced in the face of the armed conflict in Russia and Ukraine.
“I always dreamed that a Chanel bag would appear in my wardrobe, and it happened last year,” but after learning about the brand’s policy towards Russians, I decided to remove these bags from my daily life until the situation changes, “he said. the DJ Katya Guseva when she cut her black Chanel bag with scissors.
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