PETA activists to file police report after physical altercation with CFDA's CEO Steven Kolb
By Renan Botelho de Carvalho
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CFDA chief executive Steven Kolb got into a physical altercation with activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Sunday’s H&M Cos show during New York Fashion Week. In videos now all over social media, Kolb is seen pushing a male protester towards a window, then covering his mouth, and later wrestling a female protester to the floor and covering her mouth. According to PETA, both activists are filing a police report and plan to pursue criminal charges.
After the incident, Kolb said on his Instagram stories that he “reacted inappropriately.” “It wasn’t my place to do so. I should have let the security team handle the situation,” he wrote.
PETA said the activists were protesting the commercial partnership between H&M Group and a farm certified by NATIVA, whose workers were allegedly caught on camera “kicking and stomping on terrified sheep and leaving them with gaping wounds after crude shearing,” the organization said.
“Today’s actions show how top people in fashion use violence to silence people who expose how sheep are beaten, blood...