Friday, September 12, 2003

CONNECTING THE DOTS

A woman in Midland, Texas (where my wife's aunt lives) has sued Abercrombie & Fitch because of pictures taken of her in the store's dressing room:
[Attorney Brian] Carney said that sometime between May and July, he believes Will Rhoads and Kuang Tang set up an elaborate scheme to take pictures of women in various stages of undress.

Carney said he believes Rhoades and Tang cut a hole in the ceiling of one of the dressing rooms of the Midland Park Mall store.

“It took some coordinated effort to do it,” Carney said. “He had to send the girls to one particular dressing room and instruct the other guy to get up there when they were there.”

Carney said Riggan found that there might be pictures of her from a friend.

Why was A&F the type of environment where this might occur?
Carney blamed the idea on Abercrombie and Fitch’s advertising campaign.

“Look at the way they advertise,” he said. “A lot of their ads are of semi-nude and half-nude people. It’s as though these guys tried to make their own ads.”

I think we have a winner.

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