Animal-rights activists target Vogue editors at their homes

The fur protesters have gone feral. 

An animal-rights group called The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT USA) has aggressively lashed out at Vogue editors in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past few days — protesting in front of their apartment buildings and calling them “killers” from behind megaphones.

They’ve also scrawled the employees’ names and social media handles on the sidewalk in chalk, along with messages like “Leave our city” and inviting people to “Become penpals with a killer.”

“It’s really scary,” a source close to one of the targeted editors told The Post. “It feels more invasive than in the past when they’d throw paint at a fashion show. These are people’s homes, where people have kids.” 

On Thursday, a CAFT volunteer named Andrew who declined to give his last name, was loudly protesting with around 15 others — including one person standing by the front door — outside a Vogue editor’s home on Avenue A in the East Village and told The Post the publication is “singlehandedly responsible for bringing back the fur industry.

“Most brands are no longer selling fur but [Vogue has] continuing to promote it, which is keeping this industry alive,” he added. “Until they stop promoting fur we’re going to be protesting outside of the homes of all of their executives.”

Over the weekend, dozens of CAFT protesters — some in face masks — also targeted a waterfront Williamsburg apartment building that is home to another Vogue editor.

Someone wrote the fashion journalist’s name and apartment number on the sidewalk, labeling them “a killer” as three NYPD officers watched.

According to a resident, at least one activist entered the building and shoved flyers under residents’ doors.

The Post has reached out to Vogue and publisher Condé Nast for comment.

CAFT co-founder Tyler Lang, 36, told The Post that, when it comes to protests, the group is willing to “take it a step further in a way that PETA won’t” and that “a small group like ours is willing to cross boundaries.”

In the group’s policy, obtained by The Post, CAFT — which claims it has reached out to Condé for the last six months — is asking the media company to promise “no animal fur will be used, promoted, or depicted in any content, whether in print, digital or social media formats.” 

While fashion magazines including Elle and InStyle have stopped covering fur designs, Vogue still does.

After falling out of favor for several years, fur made a resurgence last winter — embraced by celebrities such as Dua Lipa, Kendall Jenner and Rihanna and aficionados of the so-called “Mob Wives” trend.

In June, 2024, designer Marc Jacobs accused CAFT protestors of “bullying” in a statement on Instagram after the animal-rights activists targeted the homes of more than a dozen of his employees — using fake blood and noisemakers to cause a stir, The New York Times reported. 

Jacobs said his line has not used fur in collections since 2018. 

In 2013, Lang attacked a family-owned mink farm in Morris, Illinois and released 2,000 minks from their cages, pouring “an acidic substance over two trucks parked on the property” and spray painting “Liberation is Love” on a barn, according to the FBI.

“We aren’t going away,” Lang said of pestering Vogue employees. “I sympathize with the neighbors who are annoyed.”