Abercrombie & Fitch: All American?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Fonziegear all the way.

Yes I dress like Fonzie. No I did not intend to mimic fonzie. Yes it was a coincidence. Yes some people call me the Fonz.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

As well as Abercrombie & Fitch there is also:

-American Eagle
-Holister

[Papewaio]

The protest (which resulted in A&F pulling "Who Needs a Brain When You Have These?" and "Gentlemen Prefer Tig Ol' Bitties" but retaining "Do I Make You Look Fat?" and others) began after my visit, so I couldn't ask Jeffries about it. But I did ask him about other T-shirt dust-ups, including "It's All Relative in West Virginia" (which West Virginia's governor didn't find funny), Bad Girls Chug. Good Girls Drink Quickly (which angered anti-addiction groups), and Wong Brothers Laundry Service -- Two Wongs Can Make It White (which triggered protests from Asian groups).

So they don't like having ethnic groups in sales, but they make fun of minorities with their shirts?

Sounds like a classy establishment. I prefer Mambo's and FCUK's play on words...

Jeffries looked at the mannequin again. "Are the pants low enough? This guy's got it lower."

"They're right at the edge of falling off," said an assistant.

"OK, that's good," Jeffries said. "Let's get them as low as we can without them falling off. We don't want him looking like an old guy."

I take it Jeffries hasn't seen to many tradesmen then... all the old guys whose pants barely stay on as they go about their work... plumbers crack...

[Proletariat]

Call me superficial, but I wouldn't take any fashion advice from someone who looked like this.

[Crazed Rabbit]

That's a 61 year old man?! *shudders*.

It's like Dick Clark trying to look like a college guy. Hard to believe he's a fashion mogul.

I'm against AnF after reading that article; them and their superiority complex.

Crazed Rabbit

[Byzantine Prince]

He's not dressed badly. He is just really ugly and really old. Egh!

Prole, does he design the clothes?

[Proletariat]

His clothes would be fine on a display, sure. But he still looks like Gary Busey with horrible botox. :shudder:

He's the CEO, BP. I don't think he does the fashion stuff himself, but I'm not sure come to think of it.

[Proletariat]

Mike Jeffries, the 61-year-old CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, says "dude" a lot. He'll say, "What a cool idea, dude," or, when the jeans on a store's mannequin are too thin in the calves, "Let's make this dude look more like a dude," or, when I ask him why he dyes his hair blond, "Dude, I'm not an old fart who wears his jeans up at his shoulders."

This fall, on my second day at Abercrombie & Fitch's 300-acre headquarters in the Ohio woods, Jeffries -- sporting torn Abercrombie jeans, a blue Abercrombie muscle polo, and Abercrombie flip-flops -- stood behind me in the cafeteria line and said, "You're looking really A&F today, dude." (An enormous steel-clad barn with laminated wood accents, the cafeteria feels like an Olympic Village dining hall in the Swiss Alps.) I didn't have the heart to tell Jeffries that I was actually wearing American Eagle jeans. To Jeffries, the "A&F guy" is the best of what America has to offer: He's cool, he's beautiful, he's funny, he's masculine, he's optimistic, and he's certainly not "cynical" or "moody," two traits he finds wholly unattractive.

Sheesh. This would be lame no matter what, but the fact that he's 61 makes it pathetic.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200.../index_np.html

Edit: Sorry, PJ. /hijack

They should hire whomever they want. If they're stupid enough to think Latinos or Blacks can't make clothes look good, yay for them. There's always one store at every mall that plays 50 Cent all day, has mannequins with massive rears, and hires one certain demographic. File it under BFD.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

[QUOTE=Proletariat]His clothes would be fine on a display, sure. But he still looks like Gary Busey with horrible botox. :shudder:
\QUOTE]


OMG yes :shudder:

P.S. he looks like an evil Jewish doctor, it's Z.O.G. at work I tell you.