Abercrombie & Fitch: An Epilogue

What happened at Abercrombie & Fitch in the late 1990s wasn't about clothes. The arrest of Mike Jeffries tells us that much. The former CEO who made billions selling overpriced t-shirts and softcore pornography to gullible teenagers now stands accused of running an international sex trafficking operation. The clothes were never the point. The stores were never the point. The smells, quarterly catalogs, and exclusionary rhetoric were never the point.