US Lawmaker Demands Loro Piana Answer for ‘Exploitation’ in Peru

A US lawmaker wants Loro Piana to answer for what he sees as the “exploitation” of Indigenous workers providing raw materials for the Italian fashion house’s trademark luxury sweaters.

The company, a subsidiary of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, has been making garments out of wool from vicuñas — big-eyed, golden-brown animals native to the Andes — for three decades, selling them for thousands of dollars each.

But a Bloomberg Businessweek report last week detailed how the trade has failed to improve the livelihoods of some of Peru’s poorest citizens, who share territory with the vicuña and shear ...