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to think this man is a prick?

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LeBFG · 08/05/2013 09:30

I think the owner of A&F is a total prick. Who's with me?

DM link sorry! And sorry if already been done.

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goodiegoodieyumyum · 08/05/2013 12:09

Chaotic they had bouncers at their Paris store and men greeting you with no tops on, I found the whole thing quite bizarre.

LeBFG · 08/05/2013 12:28

I just can't believe anyone could stand up and say this '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.'

That is, in addition to the fact he is ugly, the shops have a disgusting disabilist and racist hiring policy. On the basis of this article I shall make sure my DC never ever buy anything from A&F.

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Thumbwitch · 08/05/2013 12:33

It sounds like the clothing is not hitting its target market in the UK anyway? From some of the comments on the DM article, and others here, it's seen as "chavvy" and young teen clothing, so mid-older teens don't want to wear it as it's "little kids' clothing". Fail, A&F. Har har har.

LaGuardia · 08/05/2013 13:40

I took DS in one of the stores don't know how I got my size 16 ass past the doormen and he hated everything he looked at. He thinks it is very overrated, but he hates SuperDry too.

ICBINEG · 08/05/2013 13:46

I remember the disablist business thing from before....will never be crossing the threshold.

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/05/2013 15:44

As I said on FB about this, "Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla." And he thinks that marketing to 'attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends' isn't vanilla. He's an idiot, don't give him any head space.

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