Following the decision of the French fashion house “Chanel” to close its stores in Russia due to the attack by Ukraine, Russian influencers are protesting through social media against “Russophobia”.
Celebrities in Russia are posting videos on their personal Instagram accounts, in which they seem to be destroying products of the well-known house.
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The famous model and actress, Victoria Bonya posted a video on her profile, which shows her holding a Chanel bag in one hand and scissors in the other and destroying it as a “protest” against the famous house, which in her opinion “does not respect its customers”.
“I have to say that Chanel does not respect its customers, so why should we respect Chanel? “, She is heard saying in the video, while she cuts her bag in half and throws it on the floor, saying:” Goodbye “.
“I have never seen another brand show such disrespect to its customers,” she wrote in the caption of her post.
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The same move was made by the well-known Russian presenter and actress, Marina Ermoshkina, who also destroyed a bag of the house, using a … pruner!
“No bag and no object is worth as much as my love for my homeland. They are not worth as much as my self-esteem. I am against this Russophobia, which they promote. I’m against a brand that supports this situation. A Chanel bag is just an accessory, an accessory that suddenly decides to make fun of people, my compatriots. After all, what counts is not what you have in your hands, but what you have inside you”, she is heard saying in her video.
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The well-known DJ from Russia, Katya Guseva, made her own stand to show her support for her homeland, but also her disagreement with the policy pursued by the French house.
In the video, she is heard saying, among other things, as she cuts her Chanel bag in the middle: “I always dreamed of a Chanel in my closet, and finally, it happened. But now I learned about the brand’s policy toward the Russians and I decided to remove these bags from my daily life. The data is changing. I’m against what the house is trying to promote. “We Russians are beautiful, whether we keep Chanel or not.”
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