In 2006, Abercrombie & Fitch‘s CEO said it on the record: “Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.” It was company policy. And it cost them everything. 👀This week on IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Christopher trace A&F‘s decade-long reckoning — from a $40 million discrimination settlement in 2004 to an 8-1 Supreme Court defeat in 2015 to the Curve Love comeback. The problem wasn’t the lawsuit. It was the thirteen years it took to actually believe what the consent decree said.

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