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Europe loves Abercrombie & Fitch

Filed under: Style in the News


While us Americans, for the most part, stopped wearing Abercrombie & Fitch graphic tees in middle school along with Doc Martens sandals, our European counterparts just can't seem to get enough of the cotton tops with cheeky sayings.

After launching a rather successful flagship in London earlier this year (its gross annual sales top $50 million), the mall favorite is opening its second store in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Barack Obama shows love for Abercrombie and Fitch

Filed under: Style in the News, Celebrities with Style




We're a little late to the party on this, but did anyone else see Barack Obama's concession speech in PA on Tuesday night? He lost the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton, but rather than discussing the outcome, the Interwebs are instead abuzz with photos of those three dudes behind him wearing t-shirts with huge Abercrombie and Fitch logos plastered on the front.

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Tommy Hilfiger launches online TV channel

Filed under: Style in the News


Fashion and music have gone hand and hand since as far back as we can remember.

Dame Vivienne Westwood helped usher in the punk style that is still very popular in the UK by dressing the Sex Pistols and Adam Ant; Jean Paul Gaultier outfitted Madonna in those now infamous cone-shaped bras for her world tours, and as of late, Gucci's Frida Giannini has been taped to design 20 different looks for Lenny Kravitz's upcoming 'Love Revolution' European tour.

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Now you can ride the wahmbulance all the way to the Abercrombie and Fitch Emergency Room

Filed under: Clothing

When the market is so saturated you can't possibly open up one more Abercrombie & Fitch in yet another suburbia mall, what do you do? The answer is simple. You open a hospital wing and name it after your store.

The Abercrombie & Fitch brand is going to build a trauma center and emergency room. Although nothing has been officially announced, they want to name it after themselves. Why not? Everything is up for marketing grabs these days. The hospital in which they are building the trauma center is even called Nationwide Children's Hospital after Nationwide Insurance.

But, at least insurance companies don't promote eating disorders, "'Research has shown a link between sexualized images of teens in the media and mental health problems in girls, including eating disorders, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression,' according to the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood."

Would it really be a good idea to promote a store known for hiring only attractive employee at a children's hospital? Kids are already so overexposed, health care shouldn't be just another way to market to them. Fashion and medicine are like oil and water. They just don't mix!

Via The Consumerist.

Abercrombie & Fitch's soft-core porn catalog is coming back

Filed under: Stores We Love

Remember back in 2003 when all you had to do to get your spouse in the mood was leave your Abercrombie & Fitch catalog lying around? In theory, the quarterly publication was supposed to feature the company's clothing line -- though you wouldn't have guessed that from all the photos of sexy 20-somethings, who (for the most part) weren't wearing any clothes at all.

Abercrombie's chief executive claimed the reason A&F Quarterly was pulled was that he was "bored" with it. I suspect it had more to do with all the pressure he was under from religious organizations and women's rights groups.

However, the catalog is on its way back, but this time you'll only be able to find it in London, where the company hopes customers will be more open-minded than their US counterparts.

So Londoners, if you're into checking out a little soft-core porn while you shop for relatively bland clothing, you're in luck!

Abercrombie & Fitch cracks down on counterfeiters

Filed under: Clothing

abercrombie and fitchThe retailer that pimps its college co-ed gear with black and white photomurals of models who are only half dressed in their clothing, will be cracking down on counterfeiters as they make plans to expand their brand overseas. Abercrombie & Fitch has hired hired a former agent from the FBI's intellectual property unit to keep cheap knockoffs at bay.

Abercrombie & Fitch, which sells t-shirts, sweatshirts, and polos for $50 and jeans that can go well over $100 a pair, has seen "fake" stores in Korea. The company once intercepted a shipment of 300,000 counterfeit pairs of jeans from Hong Kong.

Guess the Koreans will have to stick with Frauda purses.

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