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Luxury reporter at Bloomberg News & Bloomberg Businessweek, covering fashion and fancy things. Host of 'Invitation Only.' Curious peasant. @BW @business @luxury
Apr 14, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
Remember years ago when Abercrombie & Fitch had lines of shirtless men outside its doors, put up huge billboards of ripped abs and covered its stores in muscles? There’s one final remnant of that era.

These are the Last Abs of Abercrombie. Let me explain.

Thread: In 2014, Abercrombie began a great purge of abs. Over the course of nine months, chiseled male torsos disappeared until only one remained – that of Abercrombie’s Fierce cologne. Seven years later, they’re still there. The label calls the bottle “vintage.”
Jul 29, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
It's a man's world at Victoria's Secret.

Les Wexner's lingerie empire has shed $20 billion in market value. His company has a problem with the past and a problem with the future—and that leaves the present in a muddle of controversy.

bloom.bg/2K9axWU Victoria's Secret is reckoning with its past relationship with sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

CMO Ed Razek, the man behind the annual fashion show and part of Wexner's inner circle, was a guest at Epstein's townhouse. He said Epstein's girls were in "the major league."
Jan 23, 2019 17 tweets 6 min read
Let’s talk about the Fyre Festival one last time, now that the two documentaries are out. @polly and I spent a sizable chunk of our lives investigating it. It’s time to reflect.

Looking back, the most incredible thing about Fyre is just how deep the rabbit hole went: The Fyre Festival saga began as a bunch of tweets and grams from kids that were comically worthy of mockery, then evolved into a near two-year-long financial fraud epic that landed someone in prison and I still can’t quite believe it.