3:10 pm - 04/20/2012
The Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia publicly objected Thursday to a T-shirt being sold by Urban Outfitters Inc. that bears a symbol that critics said resembles a Star of David patch that Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear during the Holocaust, sometimes on concentration camp uniforms.
“We find this use of symbolism to be extremely distasteful and offensive, and we are outraged that your company would make this product available to your customers,” Barry Morrison, regional director of the ADL, wrote in a letter e-mailed to Richard A. Hayne, chairman and chief executive of the retail corporation headquartered at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. ADL shared the letter with the media.
A phone call to Urban Outfitters spokesman Ed Looram was not immediately returned.
The shirt was brought to the ADL’s attention earlier in the day by an affiliate in Chicago, Morrison said. The $100 Kellog Tee — a yellow cotton shirt from the Denmark-based Wood Wood label — features a six-pointed blue patch embroidered to a chest pocket. It was available on the company’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
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Urban Outfitters hits a new low
The Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia publicly objected Thursday to a T-shirt being sold by Urban Outfitters Inc. that bears a symbol that critics said resembles a Star of David patch that Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear during the Holocaust, sometimes on concentration camp uniforms.
“We find this use of symbolism to be extremely distasteful and offensive, and we are outraged that your company would make this product available to your customers,” Barry Morrison, regional director of the ADL, wrote in a letter e-mailed to Richard A. Hayne, chairman and chief executive of the retail corporation headquartered at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. ADL shared the letter with the media.
A phone call to Urban Outfitters spokesman Ed Looram was not immediately returned.
The shirt was brought to the ADL’s attention earlier in the day by an affiliate in Chicago, Morrison said. The $100 Kellog Tee — a yellow cotton shirt from the Denmark-based Wood Wood label — features a six-pointed blue patch embroidered to a chest pocket. It was available on the company’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
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Such as...? I'm curious because I need some new Summer clothes and I would love to find some good shit for cheap/
http://woodwood.dk/collections
Be more offended that it costs so much for a stupid shirt.
Edited at 2012-04-20 07:19 pm (UTC)
and ia about the price, dats crazay
Either way, who in the fucking hell would think this is a good idea?
Can you do something about this please
kills me every time.
And the girl is cute.
However the only D.W. worth mentioning is D.W." Read.
Though, yeah, it seems kind of reaching, but I can sort of understand what they mean.
I just can't believe anyone thought it would be a good idea to make this shirt $100.00.
I thought instantly of the Davids star and I'm appalled. And I'm not jewish.