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White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch details the store's success and controversies, including its racist and exclusionary practices. The documentary focuses on the rise in popularity of the brand after the arrival of CEO Mike Jeffries in 1992, and his practices which led to a 2003 class-action suit which alleged racial discrimination in the stores’ hiring policies. [7]
Watch White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch | Netflix Official Site. All the cool kids were wearing it. This documentary explores A&F’s pop culture reign in the late ’90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Alison Klayman
- 2 min
Apr 3, 2022 · All the cool kids were wearing it. This documentary explores A&F’s pop culture reign in the late ’90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion.----#Su...
- 2 min
- 4.6K
- TickFilm
- A Company Built on Exclusion
- Problems from The Top Down
- The Beginning of The End
While many fashion brands are implicit in their exclusion, Abercrombie was explicit about its mission, making it clear who they wanted to shop at and work in their stores. White Hotuncovers how Abercrombie implemented a broader dress code that clearly targeted Black employees, with rules that didn’t allow employees to have dreadlocks, or allow men ...
As White Hot shows, there seems to be unanimous agreement from everyone who worked for Abercrombie that the company’s problems trickled down from CEO Mike Jeffries, who was with the brand from the mid-90s until 2014. He is credited with reinventing Abercrombie, which was originally founded in 1892 as a sporting goods brand for outdoorsmen. Jeffries...
For years after he said it in 2006, Jeffries’ “we go after the cool kids,” declaration barely made a splash (Initially commissioned by the the New York Times Magazine, the interview with him was killed for that publication and later run in Salon). His words stayed under the radar in part because it was still the early days of the internet, and a we...
Rated 1/5 Stars • 03/31/23. 'White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch' is an interesting documentary which has recently dropped onto Netflix. SYNOPSIS: 'Abercrombie and Fitch conquered ...
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- Alison Klayman
Apr 19, 2022 · April 19, 2022, 4:11pm. Mike Jeffries in a still from "White Hot." Courtesy of Netflix. Like many teens growing up in the Y2K era, Abercrombie & Fitch loomed large for Alison Klayman. Although she ...
Apr 19, 2022 · At its best, “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” offers a potent mix of nostalgia and schadenfreude. The opening music cue of the guitar riff of Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” slingshots you back to the mall, a location the doc then tries to ruminate on briefly (too briefly) with movie clips (a free-for-all that includes “Mean Girls” and “Observe and Report”).
