Controversy Sells Clothing
For the moment at least sex still sells and the controversy around the pose generated fevered discussion that kept the game in the limelight.
Controversy sells clothing. In fact they re too controversial for the marketplace. And countless well known names have learned this hard truth. Brandy melville for example is a retailer that caters to teens and young women selling clothes in a single size only.
While many designs were created in good faith others have been perceived as ways to make money by ruffling feathers. A post on wam clothing s instagram page says that harold thomas will be paid a royalty for every piece of clothing sold by wam clothing. C lothing retailer urban outfitters is in hot water with a jewish civil rights group for selling a tapestry that looks similar to clothing worn by gay men in nazi concentration camps.
View this photo on instagram this is the sign you see when walking into a. Wam was founded in 2018 by semele moore and ben wooster. Rethink retail while the phrase controversy sells can be accurate other times it can work completely against a brand.
H m allowed a black boy to wear a hoodie that says coolest monkey in the jungle it didn t go over well. The sales for the game were phenomenal. In may just the one month the game made an incredible 269 million from purchases and in game microtransactions.
Nonetheless the internet rarely forgets. Every so often fashion brands upset shoppers by attempting to sell questionable merchandise. Others you might not agree with the controversy.
A store has the right to sell to whomever it pleases and brandy melville certainly has the right to only make clothes for the select few to whom every other store in the country already caters. 18 controversial clothing items that were pulled from stores. Available in a range of colours and styles for men women and everyone.
The clothing chain that markets to the presumably young and beautiful is no stranger to controversy after having been accused of and sued for being racist sexist and ableist in hiring policies and called down for selling things like women s t shirts that carried messages such as who needs brains when you have these is coming under fire. Stores pulled every item of clothing on this list from the shelf following massive public outcry.
