A woman slowly glides through a darkened, overstuffed living room; the light from a projector flickers, casting gloomy shadows across her face. The scene is typical of a fashion commercial for a major brand — in this case, Zara advertising its fall 2018 collection with a film by Fabien Baron. But what caught our eye…
Eliza Brichto dreams of modeling for Zara kidswear. But the seven-year-old girl doesn’t want to be photographed in dresses or skirts. Brichto has written a letter to the European fashion brand asking to model for the boys’ line. Brichto, who is the granddaughter of the late Rabbi Sidney Brichto, former head of the Liberal Judaism…
Josh Nathan-Kazis reported that Zara stopped selling a skirt that looked, to some, to have a “Pepe” frog design, a symbol of the white supremacist so-called “alt-right.” It’s a shredded denim miniskirt with cartoon patches. The world will probably be OK in its absence. How Pepe-like was this frog? Judge for yourself: At Reason, Elizabeth…
Fashion retailer Zara has pulled a skirt from its website amid a torrent of articles suggesting that the skirt bore an image resembling Pepe the Frog. Pepe, an internet meme co-opted by the so-called “alt-right” last year, has become a widely-recognized symbol of white supremacy. The frog on the Zara skirt bears a passing resemblance…
I was reading the hard news, aka the Zara website. Something caught my eye in the “trend” section: Vichy. Specifically, #vichy. Um. Why, I wondered, is Vichy trending? Does this have anything to do with Marine le Pen and the resurgence of the French far-right? If you go to the “vichy” trend page, what appears…
Remember Zara’s . According to a former employee, that was no coincidence. Ian Jack Miller, the fashion giant’s ex-general counsel for the U.S. and Canada, has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the retailer detailing a history of racism and intolerance, and claiming that he was fired for being Jewish, gay and American. The McGill…
In worst idea ever, Zara sells shirt similar to that of Nazi camp inmates. On Israeli site too http://t.co/Kqs3PfXq31 pic.twitter.com/PRuEfn6Wsr — Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) August 27, 2014 The international clothing chain Zara has apologized for offering for sale a blue and white striped shirt with a six –pointed yellow star on the chest. The shirt,…
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