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Lululemon Athletica has issued an apology for the “Bat Fried Rice” T-shirt and is working to distance itself from former art director Trevor Fleming, who helped promote the shirt on social media.
The mess started over the weekend when Fleming shared a link advertising the shirt — which features a flying Chinese take out box with bat wings and the words “No Thank You” on the box and its sleeves, along with an image of chopsticks and bat wings — on his personal Instagram. The shirt, called “bat fried rice,” priced at $60, was created by California-based artist Jess Sluder.
But the shirt — and Fleming’s willingness to share details on where to buy it — quickly caused a stir on social media. The backlash included critics accusing Lululemon of racism and using hashtags like #BoycottLululemon and #LululemonInsultsChina on Instagram and the Chinese platform Weibo.

Critics on social media slammed both Lululemon and artist Jess Sluder, who created the shirt and uses the Instagram handle @deadringer, of xenophobia.
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The Canadian athletic-apparel retailer was quick to point out the T-shirt is not a Lululemon product and that Fleming was no longer a member of the Lululemon team. The retailer also immediately issued an apology.
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Elyse Kroll may have been out of the trade show business since 2012, but the founder of ENK International has never strayed very far from her fashion roots.
She has been so touched by the work of the nurses that she mobilized her former ENK team to help her create a charity for those frontline workers fighting the coronavirus in New York City. Called From Fashion With Love, the nonprofit is soliciting apparel, accessories and beauty brands to donate to gift bags that the organization is distributing to nurses staying in hotels in New York while they battle the pandemic.
So far, Birkenstock, Rebecca Minkoff, Joe’s Jeans, Fossil, Century 21, Splendid, Michael Stars, Erika Harvey, Rhone, TruGrace, Moussy Vintage, Surfside Supply and others have all donated products.
From Fashion With Love is asking for T-shirts, slides/flip-flops, footwear, ath-leisure, lingerie, sleepwear, socks, beauty and wellness items. It has created 1,000 From Fashion With Love tote bags so far with an initial goal of 2,500. They will be filled with the donated products and distributed at the New Yorker hotel, followed by the other hotels around town that are housing the health-care workers. If the donations are large enough, Kroll hopes to move beyond New

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FOR KIDS’ SAKE: Loewe is pitching in to the global effort to fight the coronavirus.
In a joint statement, Loewe chief executive officer Pascale Lepoivre and artistic director Jonathan Anderson said the brand would donate 100,000 surgical masks to the Spanish Red Cross. In addition, it is making nonsurgical masks at its factory in Getafe, Spain, for volunteer workers, Loewe employees and their families.
The Spanish luxury house, which is owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, will also donate a portion of the proceeds from its upcoming Paula’s Ibiza capsule collection to educational projects, starting with an initial gift of 500,000 euros.
For its fourth collection with Paula’s, a former Ibiza institution founded by Armin Heinemann and Stuart Rudnick in the Seventies, Loewe will donate 40 euros for every product sold between May and August in Loewe stores and on its web site.
“To achieve this, Loewe is collaborating with Plataforma de Infancia — a Spanish alliance of social organizations that works to protect children and adolescents’ rights — to launch a series of educational programs this summer in Spain which aims to reduce inequality and school dropouts,” Lepoivre and Anderson said.
Loewe is the latest LVMH brand to pitch in to the effort

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FAMILY AFFAIR: Mytheresa.com has joined forces with Brunello Cucinelli for an exclusive capsule collection that launches online this week.
The capsule will span men’s, women’s and kids’ wear — marking the first time the luxury German retailer has worked with a brand on a cross-category family collection.
The 64-piece line of luxury basics includes tailoring, shirtdresses, knits and matching children’s items, all done in a natural color palette and featuring organic materials like linen, to reflect the Italian house’s love of nature.
Prices start at $190 for the kids’ wear pieces and go up to $4,495 for women’s wear items.
The launch will be accompanied by a campaign that features a family eating and drinking around the kitchen table, dressed in the striped knits and loose shirts of the capsule.
“The collaboration collection highlights values that are very important to us, and is the perfect example of the relationship of profound esteem and respect that unites us [with Mytheresa],” said the house’s brand and media relations manager Carolina Cucinelli.
Mytheresa has been forging ahead amid the COVID-19 lockdown, servicing customers and releasing a number of exclusive collections. Prior to the Cucinelli launch, it partnered with footwear designer of the moment Amina Muaddi, on an exclusive, Eighties-themed

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