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Did you hear the managing director of Hervé Léger say he didn’t want curvaceous women rocking the fashion house’s bandage dresses? Unfortunately, he’s only one of many designers who don’t want certain people wearing their clothing.
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Hervé Léger
In an interview with The Daily Mail, Patrick Couderc, managing director of Hervé Léger, said he doesn’t want women who are past a certain age, “voluptuous,” “committed lesbians” or women who “lack sufficient class” wearing the label’s famous bandage dresses.
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Tommy Hilfiger
If you’re a fan of hip-hop, Tommy Hilfiger said his designs weren’t meant for you.
The designer recently confessed that while hip-hop’s adoption of his clothing “fueled a lot of growth” for his label, he’s disappointed that the urban demographic “took us away from our roots.” If he had it to do all over again, he would “stick to my heritage and not chase trends.”
Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch former CEO Mike Jeffries said that he would rather burn his clothes than give them to poor people.
“Abercrombie and Fitch doesn’t want to create the image that just anybody, poor people, can wear their clothing. Only people of a certain stature are able to purchase and wear the company name.”
He’s also said he doesn’t want “ugly,” “fat” or “uncool” people rocking the brand’s threads either.
Karl Lagerfeld
The master designer was sued in France in 2013 for discriminating against plus-sized women and saying “nobody wants to see curvy women on the runway.”
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John Galliano
No one would fault Jewish fashionistas for assuming that John Galliano didn’t want them wearing his clothing. After all, he was caught yelling these shockingly anti-semitic words in a Parisian bar: “People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f***ing gassed.”
Michael Costello
Michael Costello is happy to design for black women like Beyoncé and Tamar Braxton. But one designer claimed that Mr. Costello called her the n-word and threw her phone out of a window when she accused him of using her designs.
After fans had encouraged celebs to no longer wear his designs, Costello released a statement and said the claims were false.
Bond No. 9
This perfume retailer found itself in really hot water when it was caught alienating its Black customers with coded language. Whenever any African American popped into one of their stores, they told employees “We need the lightbulbs changed” to cue them to be on high alert. A suit was filed by former employees over this but was eventually dropped.
Giorgio Armani
World-renowned designer Giorgio Armani once said that he was OK with some gay men, but not the ones who dress to the “extreme”:
“A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual. When homosexuality is exhibited to the extreme – to say: ‘Ah, you know I’m homosexual,’ – that has nothing to do with me. A man has to be a man.”
Whether or not he meant to bar some men from wearing his designs, some of his former fans have vowed to stop wearing his label.
Dolce & Gabbana
Although gay themselves, the famous designing twosome alienated a lot of their customers when they made it clear that they were against gay marriage, gay parents and couples who conceive by IVF. Now several of their former customers say they get the message and won’t be patronizing their label anymore.
Barneys
Quite a few African-American shoppers have been detained for shopping while black at Barneys. Consequently, many have decided not to give their business to the exclusive retail store.
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Several Top Designers
Melissa McCarthy said that plus-size women aren’t welcome when it comes to being dressed by the top designers. She said that when she was looking for a dress to wear on the red carpet one time, she was turned away. “I asked five or six designers — very high-level ones who make lots of dresses for people — and they all said no.”
Michael Kors
For some reason, fans seem to think that Michael Kors doesn’t like Black people. The rumors got so out of hand that these tweets surfaced, allegedly from Mr. Kors’ timeline:
“I’m tired of pretending I like blacks.”
“Just for the sake of a sale I have to deal with women like Nicki Minaj? I’d rather not. After all my fans made me money, It’s only fair I be honest and let them know how I really feel.”
“I cant stomach the thought of my Michael Kors purses being stuffed with synthetic hair, weave or what ever else my fans are into.”
Thankfully, the tweets were fake.
Ralph Lauren
When an interviewer told Lauren about the respect Kanye West showed him by saying his own line was great but “it ain’t Ralph, though” the designer sounded like he was throwing a little low-key shade West’s way:
“Well, that’s great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I’m catering to him. The fact that I make what I make—he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it.”
Was Lauren trying to say something about who his clothes are “catered” to?”
Hollister
The Abercrombie & Fitch offshoot made its South Korean customers feel some type of way when its models blatantly mocked Asian customers and culture during the store’s opening in Yeouido.
