A major zara location will soon open in a mall my wife and I frequent.
I will never set foot in that store, or any other zara store anywhere else.
There have been many articles written about the kind of people who run this company. But Clare O’Connor’s June 3, 2015 article for Forbes Magazine has a particularly excellent encapsulation.
Here are the first few paragraphs (and I urge you to read the rest as well):
Last August, Spanish clothing chain Zara went into damage control mode after selling a children’s shirt with a yellow star embellishment that drew comparisons to a Holocaust concentration camp uniform.
Parent company Inditex , one of the world’s largest fashion retailers, pulled the top from its shelves and issued an apology — but not before a public outcry. After all, it wasn’t Zara’s first time coming under scrutiny for insensitive imagery on its clothing. In 2007, the company withdrew a handbag that contained swastikas as a design element.
Now, a former in-house counsel for Zara claims the cheap-chic giant’s corporate culture is as anti-Semitic as these incidents would suggest.
On Wednesday, lawyers for Ian Jack Miller, the first and only corporate attorney for Zara’s U.S. and Canada business, filed a $40 million discrimination suit in New York’s Supreme Court alleging he was fired because he’s Jewish, American and gay.
The allegations present an ugly picture of life at Zara U.S., where Miller says he was the only Jewish employee. The suit suggests, however, that Amancio Ortega — the billionaire founder of Inditex, and the 4th richest person in the world — set the tone from the top.
Want to see their “oh, we didn’t really mean it” line of nazi-themed items?
Here’s the shirt…
And here’s the handbag.
Can you possibly come up with any plausible way these two items (and I wonder how many more I haven’t seen) are somehow inadvertent little accidents?
Does this leave any doubt at all about zara’s true intentions?
Now toss in gay-hatred as well.
Look I don’t care whether you are Gentile or Jewish, and I don’t care whether you are straight or gay. A company that intentionally sells items with an overtly nazi motif is a company you should never have anything to do with.
I hope that it never opens….or, if it does, that it goes bust as soon as possible.
Screw these people.
