Urban Outfitters Makes Me Sad

Lately, Urban Outfitters (or, UO) has been making serious mistakes in the fashion world. After a series of unfortunate t-shirt designs, Urban Outfitters decided that it would be a good idea to pay homage to the Kent State Massacre. Urban Outfitters did this by designing a “vintage” sweatshirt that bore Kent State’s school logo and fake blood splatter. 

 

As if that wasn’t insensitive enough, UO also released a series of t-shirts promoting eating disorders and making light of mental disorders.

If you can't tell, that's a graphic tee with the word "depression" written all over it. And the shirt on the right? That says "Eat Less". I don't know about you guys, but that Eat Less model looks like she is about to faint. 

Finally, is the Jewish star t-shirt. Urban Outfitters released this gem and instantly received backlash because the shirt in question looks like the Star of David patch. This was the patch that all Jewish people were forced to wear in Germany during WWII so they could be easily identifiable when the Nazi soldiers were rounding up Jewish citizens and sending them to death camps.
Urban Outfitters has pulled all of these shirts after receiving criticism over their poor design choices. How thoughtful, right?



I guess the reason why this makes me so upset is that UO continues to market obviously inappropriate stuff that is offensive to many different people.You would think that by now they would have a team of people approving designs before releasing them to the public to avoid another PR nightmare. The fact that this recent Kent State sweatshirt design is not the first time UO has been offensive makes me want to tell others about this in hopes of getting others to stop shopping at Urban Outfitters once and for all.

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