Jeffries had a vision, and it was not a broad one. As he told Salon in a 2006 interview, “In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive, all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes] and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”
.. Abercrombie did not sell women’s clothes in sizes above ten.
.. Among other things, the suit alleged that non-whites were regularly shoehorned into back-of-the-store jobs where customers wouldn’t see them as much.
.. Gordon, a business-school professor at the University of Michigan, told New York, “This generation is about inclusiveness and valuing diversity. It’s not about looking down on people.”
.. Elauf went on to be hired at Forever 21 and Old Navy ..
.. if it’s no longer profitable to tout your cultural intolerance, that’s pretty cool.