The year, 1997: Tommy Hilfiger was on top of the fashion world. In the four years from 1992-1996, Hilfiger sales went from $107 million to almost $500 million at its peak.
But all of a sudden, a nasty rumor started to circulate. This was pre social media and ore internet, so rumors had the ability to take in a life of their own. The rumor claimed the designer went on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admitted that he hated black people and only wanted his clothes be worn by “upper class white people.”
The full supposed quote was: “If I’d known African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice, I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people.”
Tommy Hilfiger’s statement on the controversy: “For one thing, I’d never said, thought, or felt anything remotely so repugnant. For another, I’d never appeared on Oprah. ‘If I just ignore this,’ I figured, ‘It’ll go away.’ The opposite happened.”
At this point, Hilfiger had never even appeared on the Oprah show. But he eventually went on her show to address the rumors. How do you feel about this situation?
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