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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Urban Outfitters Tapestry Resembles Concentration Camp Uniform
Source: TPM
(Image via Business Insider)
Urban Outfitters came under fire on Monday for selling a tapestry that resembles the uniform gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
The Anti-Defamation League slammed the store for selling the tapestry and urged Urban Outfitters to remove the item from stores.
"Whether intentional or not, this gray and white stripped pattern and pink triangle combination is deeply offensive and should not be mainstreamed into popular culture," ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a Monday statement. "We urge Urban Outfitters to immediately remove the product eerily reminiscent of clothing forced upon the victims of the Holocaust from their stores and online."
The tapestry was available in stores on Tuesday morning, according to Bloomberg News, but it is not available online.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/urban-outfitters-concentration-camp-uniform
I hesitate to give them more publicity, but I would hope that this kind of negative attention affects their bottom line.
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New Urban Outfitters Tapestry Resembles Concentration Camp Uniform (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2015
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CTyankee
(63,912 posts)1. good lord! what the hell are they doing with that design?
very, very poor taste...
Skinner
(63,645 posts)3. They're trolling.
Urban outfitters has done this over and over and over again. They had the bloody Kent State sweatshirt. And don't forget the Jewish star t-shirt:
It's a strategy to get attention. We should stop taking their bait.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)5. OK. It's on my boycott list...we have one here in New Haven...
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)2. Pretty sure this is something they do for PR...
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)4. Genocide is not a fashion statement.
Things that shouldn't have to be said.