Zara Is Very Sorry For Making A Kids’ Shirt That Vividly Recalls The Holocaust
Ooft.
Look, being a fashion designer is probably a pretty tough gig; you’ve somehow got to keep designing new clothes all the time, despite the fact that we have some pretty nice ones already. That would be really hard.
Still, when putting together a kids’ pyjama collection, maybe go the extra mile in ensuring the ensemble doesn’t strongly, strongly resemble the uniforms given to Jewish death camp inmates by the Nazis. That seems like a reasonable request.
What designer at #Zara thought this scream “sheriff” rather than “Auschwitz inmate”? Yes, this is real. pic.twitter.com/xqivZzbC9o
— Eylon Aslan-Levy (@EylonALevy) August 27, 2014
Ooft. That does look rather like an Auschwitz outfit.
But maybe people are just conflating the similarities, right? It doesn’t look that much like —
#Zara receives backlash over shirt that resembles concentration camp uniform: http://t.co/b3YNct22Ll pic.twitter.com/r1nQ4ImlZG
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) August 27, 2014
Ooooooft.
Guys. Abort.
Zara have since apologised courtesy of some poor PR intern who really doesn’t want to be dealing with this right at the moment, explaining that the shirt is meant to be part of a sheriff’s outfit (the badge does have ‘Sheriff’ written on it, to be fair).
@saammtan We honestly apologize, it was inspired by the sheriff’s stars from the Classic Western films and is no longer in our stores
— ZARA (@ZARA) August 27, 2014
Pro tip, fashion designers: if you ever see a book cover and a lightbulb goes off in your head for a new piece, be sure to flip through the book first to make sure everything’s above board.
