New Urban Outfitters Tapestry Resembles Concentration Camp Uniform

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

(Image via Business Insider)

Urban Outfitters came under fire on Monday for selling a tapestry that resembles the uniform gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps.

The Anti-Defamation League slammed the store for selling the tapestry and urged Urban Outfitters to remove the item from stores.

"Whether intentional or not, this gray and white stripped pattern and pink triangle combination is deeply offensive and should not be mainstreamed into popular culture," ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a Monday statement. "We urge Urban Outfitters to immediately remove the product eerily reminiscent of clothing forced upon the victims of the Holocaust from their stores and online."

The tapestry was available in stores on Tuesday morning, according to Bloomberg News, but it is not available online.

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I hesitate to give them more publicity, but I would hope that this kind of negative attention affects their bottom line.

[CTyankee]

1. good lord! what the hell are they doing with that design?

very, very poor taste...

[Skinner]

3. They're trolling.

Urban outfitters has done this over and over and over again. They had the bloody Kent State sweatshirt. And don't forget the Jewish star t-shirt:



It's a strategy to get attention. We should stop taking their bait.

[CTyankee]

5. OK. It's on my boycott list...we have one here in New Haven...

[Agschmid]

2. Pretty sure this is something they do for PR...

[Solly Mack]

4. Genocide is not a fashion statement.

Things that shouldn't have to be said.