Loro Piana has been making knitwear out of vicuña wool for three decades, but congressman Robert Garcia believes Peruvian workers are being exploited.
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“This seems to me as clearly exploitation and it is a huge multinational corporation that is owned by some of the wealthiest people in the world,” Garcia, a democrat from California, said in an interview withVicuña camelids, which freely roam the Andes Mountains, were nearly brought to extinction by over-farming during the colonial era before they were declared endangered in the 1960s.
The label added that the wool harvest only takes place one day per year and that the price per kilo ranges between $300 and $400, depending on the harvest and market demand. It also said it has paid Peru-based suppliers nearly $20 million over the past decade to buy vicuña yarn. Loro Piana did acknowledge that the situation “may be challenging for some” and says it will “carry out initiatives” on the ground in Peru to further strengthen its control of the local supply chain to ensure that the sums paid to the organizations in charge of the harvesting are “equitably allocated and redistributed.”Rachel Cormack is a digital editor at Robb Report.
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