Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen is a British luxury fashion house established by designer Alexander McQueen in 1992 which portrayed the brand as "distinctive for its innovative and uncompromising expression of unbridled creativity".[1] The house's early collections built up its reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "l'enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion"), w with pants suitably named "bumsters" and a series of collection entitled "Highland Rape". The brand obtained by Kering Group in 2001 and delegated Alexander McQueen as the Creative Director prior to launching stores in London, Milan, New York, Loas Angeles and Las Vegas.

McQueen reported dead because of suicide on the evening of 11 February 2010. Around the hour of his demise, the company had debt of £32 million despite posting benefits from handbag sales in 2008.[2]

Controversy

In December 2015, Alexander McQueen brand alongside its head company, Kering Americas Inc., were sued by its two African-American workers for racial discrimination.[3] The representatives, Christopher Policard and Duane Davis, worked at Alexander McQueen on Madison Avenue and said that the organization has "occupied with efficient bigotry against Kering's African-American workers" and said the organization "methodicallly dismisses African-American job candidates who look for positions on the business floor where they can be seen by clients or positions where they may have authority over white employees, relegating the few African-Americans who are employed to positions behind the scenes."

As per court records got by Fashionista, Policard and Davis submitted formal questions to their administrators on two separate events — Sept. 17 and Nov. 18 — in regards to biased treatment. The two asserted that the organization examined the matter " "in a perfunctory and superficial manner" and that as opposed to reacting with "corrective action, Defendants embarked upon a course of action designed to denigrate, punish and retaliate against them for making their complaint, intimidate them into withdrawing it or force them to leave the company."

The protest proceeds to list the different manners by which they've been victimized, including: being alsely blamed for robbery without proof; being "intrusively" evaluated for burglary before employees and clients, in contrast to non-African American workers, who were exposed to screening either secretly or in a less invasive manner; being "laughed at" for raising segregation; being denied rights under employment practices and procedures; and performing heavy labor and "other modest, demeaning tasks that is to be done by black employees specifically."[4]

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