This is sooooo delightful:


"[Sex and sexual attraction are] almost everything. That's why we hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don't market to anyone other than that...In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, 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."


- - - - 61 year old Mike Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, in a salon.com article.


EDIT: here is the link:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/...ex_np.html
[Edited 5/25/06 10:45am]

GIT THA FOCK OUTTA HERE!!!!

At least he admits it.

Actually, I can't remember the holiday, but I was in a Mall her in Tampa and they had a shirtless A&F model standing as you enter the store.

I'm not trying to be gay here, but he was possibly one of the best looking men I've ever seen in my life. His chest was very well built, he stomach was ripped, and his hair was very stylish. It almost looked like the air brushed his entire torso, the skin was so smooth. I was awestruck by his beauty.

I hear that the one at Citris Park (across town) had female models there. It would have been coold if they were topless.


Very good looking folks at A&F indeed.

Gary Busey.

to be honest, extremely good looking store personell always makes
me feel very uneasy. i always get the feeling that they laugh at
you for being regular or perhaps in their eyes even ugly or just
not worthy -as the old geezer in the story above affirms-. that's
just wrong on so many levels.

i'd rather be in a store with personell with a great attitude who
are friendly and make you feel welcome. if they're attractive as
well, that's a nice bonus, lol.

but we all know the examples of the self-proclaimed exclusive type
store where the personell looks at you as if you have poop smeared
all over your face.

always have to laugh at that now and think of a quote from Edina
on Absolutely Fabulous

"Oi, you can drop the attitude. you only work in a shop, you know"

IstenSzek said:

Your so hot, it's like an eye orgy everytime I see a picture of you!

61 YEAR OLD!!!

Well they've certainly treated me like shit each & every time I've been in there I haven't been there in quite a while

PANDURITO said:

Gary Busey!

I dont care what the shop assistants look like, I'm too busy looking at the clothes.



"A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong."

ha. i don't even WANT to belong in their precious clothing. i just want to wear them

IstenSzek said:

perfect quote!

LleeLlee said:

Is it true that K-Mart has also asked you not to wear their clothes etc.?

translation:

"we market our catalogs as softcore wanking material, and many traditionally unattractive people flock to our stores and drool over our saleswhores, buying lots of clothes in hopes that it makes them just as desirable, and we profit from their sad delusional fashion choices."

Anx said:

CalhounSq said:

Don't applaud him--he shops there

Imago said:

shopLIFTs. there's a difference.

They won't let me in.

I walk by the entrance and the guard-twinks line up and bar my way. They say, "Sir, we have nothing for you here" and then direct me to JC Penneys.

2the9s said:

yes.

they said I wasnt the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends.

uggh
people who shop at Am I a Crummy Ass Bitch should be pelted with raw goose guts

IstenSzek said:

Right. They annoy the fuck out of me, too. Some little twerp who looks like Justin Timberpussy serving me. Fuck 'em.

Who goes into a store because someone good looking is stacking the shelves?

meltwithu said:

That store is garbage. I went into one in San Diego with a friend of mine and I looked at the stuff they had and I thought I would never be caught dead in them clothes. If you got some booty, you can't wear their pants. Plus they are expensive as hell too. $50 for a T-Shirt and a regular looking one at that? There are stores like this but it's all the same: Get the fuck outta here with that shit.

NorthernLad said:

Substitute "white people" wherever he says "good looking" and you'll get what he really means. That fucker is scary. I can't go into that loud ass store. Every time I walk past it, I feel like Will Ferrell and Mango should be in front of it bobbing their heads. Gives me a damn headache just being in its proximity.

RipHer2Shreds said:

See, I thought I was the only one inferring that from his quote... I wonder how much plastic surgery he's had. Looks like you could bounce a quarter off his face.

ThreadBare said:

It's not an unfair judgment given the nature of the class action lawsuit. Weren't they the ones selling the underwear with the Asian laundry guy on them?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Yes, they were selling t-shirts that lampooned Asians...

Then, there was the suit brought by nonwhite job applicants. A&F settled for $40 million.

Gives a bit of perspective to his statements, doesn't it? "Some people fit..."

I bet he has an astonishing WWII memorabilia collection in his home.


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[Edited 5/25/06 20:58pm]

ThreadBare said:

Sorry, you are correct. It was t-shirts. I'm getting my offensive AF clothing mixed up. It was these underwear - THONGS, aimed at girls aged 10 to 16 - that I was thinking of:



Eye candy? Wink, wink?

Whoa, he sure is one scary ugly mofo himself.

Going by his own theory on who their target buyers should be, he should NOT be wearing his own clothes.

Yikes!