Many of you who love LV, Hermes and other luxury brands should know that the price of a crocodile skin bag is 30 times higher than the price of the same calf skin bag. Moreover, the process of obtaining crocodile skin is also quite dangerous, so crocodile skin bags become more and more precious. Today, I would like to tell you some introduction about crocodile skin.
All crocodiles are difficult to serve, with the Australian saltwater crocodile, the Nile crocodile, being the most productive, supplying about 25,000 purses per year. Cattle hides are only a by-product of raising cattle for food; while crocodiles, although their meat is edible, are mainly bred specifically for their hides. Cattle can be free range in the pasture for food, crocodiles from the moment of shelling out of the crocodile must live in a specially created tranquil environment to avoid being disturbed, to prevent killing each other. Only a few trained keepers are allowed near them.
The crocodile pens are cleaned daily and a strict regulated feeding program must be followed: the crocodile’s main food is chicken and specially selected cooking oil in order to improve the texture of the crocodile’s skin. Crocodiles are a species from the distant past that defends itself by instinctive reactions. The Nile crocodiles of South Africa, for example, can reach up to 5 meters in length and weigh 700 kilograms, and will devour anything that falls into the water, including the keeper who has the misfortune to lose his footing and fall into the water.
Luxury companies such as LV, Kering and Hermes only select the top 10% of the best quality crocodile skins produced each year.
In order to keep the crocodile bellies in good condition, the slaughtering, skinning and part of the tanning process has to be done by hand; a formalized process where the crocodiles are completely stunned by two electric shocks before they are killed to avoid pain. In order to prevent crocodile abuse and protect wild crocodiles, each captive-bred crocodile skin is required to obtain a certificate confirming that it does not violate the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The average crocodile skin designer bag costs at least two crocodile skins, which sell for about $600 each, for a total leather cost of about $1,200-although such a bag can sell for between $40,000 and $150,000 in retail stores.
After reading the introduction of the editorial, we do not think that crocodile skin is not easy to come by?
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