Recent updates show that Tommy Hilfiger the designer of the famous brand “Tommy Hilfiger” has stated that only upper-class whites should buy his clothes. They say that he never appeared on Oprah’s show, but who knows. The problem with this is on how he said that African American, Hispanics and Asians should not buy his clothes. It also shows that this whole conflict is a message that is being sent to emails from Oprah. This happened in 1999 so we can’t really tell if it’s true or not till this time. Either way if it’s true or not it still can hurt the people that buy clothes there. Being Hispanic or African American etc. doesn’t matter, a lot of people buy clothes from there no matter their Ethnicity. They also say that Liz Claiborne has also been saying that her clothing, etc. Is not made for black women. As they should on the website they are saying that it’s not true. Looking back into all the websites it shows that Oprah has giving her statement on how she has NOT, NEVER met Tommy Hilfiger. She also says that she said it on her show clearly letting them know on how they’ve never met.
This message was sent to someone via email, and since then they have been forwarding it to everyone they know and those people do the same.
Subject: FWD: Tommy Hilfiger hates us...
Did you see the recent Oprah Winfrey show on which Tommy Hilfiger was a guest? Oprah asked Hilfiger if his alleged statements about people of color were true - he's been accused of saying things such as "If I had known that African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice," and "I wish those people would not buy my clothes - they were made for upper-class whites." What did he say when Oprah asked him if he said these things? He said "Yes." Oprah immediately asked Hilfiger to leave her show.
The main stereotype here, is how Tommy is saying that white upper class people only buy expensive clothes, Which is not true an race can buy whatever type of clothes they want. Its unfair to what the people can say either being true or not being true.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/tommyhilfiger/a/tommy_hilfiger.htm
Julissa's post was about a fashion designer that made clothes where people of every nationality bought. A fashion designer should think, "Wow that's awesome that my clothing and style is bought from different diversity." Instead this guy see's it as a bad thing. Stating that he should make his clothes look worse because of the people that are buying them doesn't sound like the right kind of statement to me. Instead of ashamed of it, he should be proud. Tommy is a problem and represents a social issue within himself.
ReplyDeleteJulissa, I'm so glad you brought this up. I almost forgot about this. I remember when I was younger and my older sister banned my mom from buying either of us Tommy Hilfiger clothes. You would think being an international fashion designer, Hilfiger wouldn't care about the race or ethnicity of those who wore his clothes. Why should it matter who wears the outfit as long as Mr.Hilfiger's wallet stays fat? His bigoted attitude should be known by all that decide to wear his designs. Thank you for bringing attention to something that may have been forgotten.
ReplyDeleteJulissa, I very much agree with your topic and attitude towards this issue. I think it is definitely wrong to be eliminating certain people just based on their race and background. This topic particularly stood out to me because I grew up on Tommy Hilfiger clothing when I was younger and when my sister had informed me of this news, I was so shocked. It is very unfair because our race and who we are is not in our hands nor in our power to decide.
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