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Should They Teach History In Fashion School?

  • Bloomberg, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:52 AM

Is Urban Outfitters hiring people who didn't take freshman history? The Anti-Defamation League is up in the retailer's face for selling a tapestry that looks like what gay inmates had to wear in Nazi concentration camps: gray-striped tapestry with a pink triangle. In 2012, the ADL criticized the retailer for selling a T-shirt emblazoned with what appeared to be a yellow Star of David. In September, Kent State protested the chain's sweatshirt with the college’s logo and what appeared to be spattered blood.

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