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Mrs. Overall

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Fri Jun 22, 2018, 01:31 PM Jun 2018

The company that made Melania's jacket has been sued in the past for their Nazi imagery on clothes

This article about the clothing company Zara and a $40 million lawsuit is from 2015:

MANHATTAN (CN) – Zara’s past scandals for clothing designs perceived as having Nazi imagery and racist slogans reflect a deeper corporate culture of bias, the company’s former lawyer claims in a $40 million lawsuit.

Ian Jack Miller, who represented Zara for seven years as in-house counsel, accuses Zara USA and two of its executives of religious and sexual discrimination firsthand in an alarming 30-page complaint filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Zara’s predominantly Spanish, straight and Christian executives – including an ex-CEO – mocked real estate developers as “los judios” (“the Jews”), exchanged racist emails of President Barack Obama wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood, bragged about their sexual prowess, and subjected staff to sexist and homophobic messages, Miller claims.

The lawsuit begins with a retelling of Zara’s past scandals involving what some customers described as Nazi and racist imagery.

“Zara cultivates a worldly and cosmopolitan image, but the company is notorious for selling products featuring racist and anti-Semitic images and messages, including handbags depicting swastikas, children’s pajamas resembling concentration camp uniforms (a product that, after an international outcry, the company said would be ‘exterminated’), necklaces containing figurines in black face, and a T-shirt proclaiming that ‘White Is the New Black,'” the complaint states.

In August 2014, Zara executives described the resemblance between the yellow-star pajamas and concentration camp uniforms as accidental. The clothing had been meant to look like a sheriff’s outfit, executives insisted at the time.

Continue reading article: https://www.courthousenews.com/bias-suit-paints-blistering-picture-of-zara/

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The company that made Melania's jacket has been sued in the past for their Nazi imagery on clothes (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Jun 2018 OP
Accidental Nazis? Bullshit. Initech Jun 2018 #1
Actual clothing item volstork Jun 2018 #2
Here is one of their children's pajama tops and their swastika purse: Mrs. Overall Jun 2018 #3
Nice to know the clothing line has a history . I can't believe she hasn't wore the Tshirt mentioned lunasun Jun 2018 #4
Such accidental bigotry dalton99a Jun 2018 #5
Don't you hate it when you accidentally Nazi? Kber Jun 2018 #6
Shame on these executive racist Nazi lovers, and screw their brand. appalachiablue Jun 2018 #7
No more sympathy for Melania. She's all in with the Trump mob. nt oasis Jun 2018 #8
They are Neo Nazis Johnny2X2X Jun 2018 #9
They hate Americans rockfordfile Jun 2018 #10
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