Alexander McQueen

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. Alexander McQueen is a British luxury fashion house founded by designer Alexander McQueen in 1992 which described the brand as "distinctive for its innovative and uncompromising expression of unbridled creativity".[1] The house's early collections developed its reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "l'enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion"), with trousers aptly named "bumsters" and a collection entitled Highland Rape. The brand acquired by Kering Group in 2001 and appointed Alexander McQueen as the Creative Director before launching stores in London, Milan, New York, Loas Angeles and Las Vegas.

McQueen announced dead due to suicide on the afternoon of 11 February 2010. Around the time of his death, the company had debts of £32 million despite posting profits from handbag sales in 2008.[2]

Controversy

In December 2015, Alexander McQueen brand along with its head company, Kering Americas Inc., were sued by its two African-American employees for racial discrimination.[3] The employees, Christopher Policard and Duane Davis, worked at Alexander McQueen on Madison Avenue and claim that the company has "engaged in systematic racism against Kering's African-American employees" and said the company “systematically rejects African-American job applicants who seek positions on the sales floor where they can be seen by customers or positions where they might have authority over white employees, relegating the few African-Americans who are hired to menial positions behind the scenes.”

According to court documents obtained by Fashionista, Policard and Davis made formal complaints to their supervisors on two separate occasions — Sept. 17 and Nov. 18 — regarding discriminatory treatment. The two claimed that the company investigated the matter "in a perfunctory and superficial manner" and that instead of responding 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 complaint goes on to list the various ways in which they've been discriminated against, including: being falsely accused of theft without evidence; being "invasively" screened for theft in front of employees and customers, unlike non-African American employees, who were subjected to screening either privately or in a less invasive manner; being "laughed at" for bringing up discrimination; being denied rights under employment practices and procedures; and performing heavy labor and "other menial, demeaning tasks that white employees are not asked to deal with."[4]

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