Michael Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombi, makes top 10 CEO salaries '08

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by constantine.

there's some weird **** going on with his face.

Originally Posted by Mr. Moo

Originally Posted by mulansauce

He once looked almost normal:

are all these three photos of the same creature?

 

[thats.mana]

It's almost as if someone bundled up 71million and threw it at his face.

 

[oneeightyseven]

Originally Posted by thats.mana

It's almost as if someone bundled up 71million in quarters and threw it at his face.

You're right.

 

[nonissue]

Originally Posted by thats.mana

It's almost as if someone bundled up 71million and threw it at his face.

hahahahaha.

 

[Epaulet]

I've always appreciated how Abercrombie's catalogs and advertisements used fairly homoerotic imagery to sell plain clothing to many homophobic men. Of course not all male A&F customers are homophobic - especially the dudes who live in Chelsea - but my experience of going to college in Central Pennsylvania leads me to believe that plenty of them are. That's pretty subversive.

Everything else about it is highly representative of what's wrong with retailing and the apparel industry. This maniac's excessive salary is just the icing on the cake. According to this, Ruehl and all the people it employed had a loss of $58 million.
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/..._fitch_to.html

They could have taken that out of his salary, and he'd still have 13 million to kick around for one of the worst years retail has ever posted.

Disgusting.

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by somatoform

In more ways than one. I remember a business report about how AF's lack of sales made them reconsider their sales rep policies. Apparently AF tells their in-store sales reps to intentionally look-down on customers according to some logic that if customers are made to feel lower than the people selling the clothes the customers will want to buy AF that much more in order to feel 'on their level of coolness'.

This attitude was certainly implicit in comments he made in his Salon interview:

"As far as Jeffries is concerned, America's unattractive, overweight or otherwise undesirable teens can shop elsewhere. 'In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,' he says. 'Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.'"

     - http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200...es/index1.html

Of course, being an unpopular person with no friends and an unfortunate appearance, it's little wonder I've never found anything that interests me in A&F. Still, my problems with A&F have less to do with the sales reps than with the lighting and the fact that I have to fight my way through potted plants to get from one side of the store to the other. The most attitude I've gotten from one of the sales reps is when I wandered into Ambercrombie (sans Fitch) and the clerk informed me, "This is for... um... little kids." My God, how I wished I had then said "Hey, I'm all about that!"

 

[mulansauce]

Originally Posted by Epaulet

They could have taken that out of his salary, and he'd still have 13 million to kick around for one of the worst years retail has ever posted. Disgusting.
His actual "salary" was $1.5 million. The bulk of that $71 million was stock options. But yes, he is indeed disgusting.

 

[Big Pun]

There is nothing I don't dislike about this guy or the brands.

 

[Dakota rube]

Clearly the guy is not only handsome, but a helluva manager

 

[uhurit]

The store is mostly useless, but : I can surely appreciate the fact that they are so intentional about introducing slim-fitting ("muscle&quot shirts to american mainstream so preoccupied with ill-fitting, baggy clothing.

 

[willy cheesesteak]

**** looks stupid though when its paired with their big ass cargo shorts.

 

[boozingalcoholic]

hmmm...i would def trade places for that 71 mil. Guy has it all figured out.

 

[Helix]

Originally Posted by boozingalcoholic

hmmm...i would def trade places for that 71 mil. Guy has it all figured out.
Except how he should put on his human suit in the morning apparently.

 

[TyCooN]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

This attitude was certainly implicit in comments he made in his Salon interview:

"As far as Jeffries is concerned, America's unattractive, overweight or otherwise undesirable teens can shop elsewhere. 'In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,' he says. 'Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.'"

     - http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200...es/index1.html

Of course, being an unpopular person with no friends and an unfortunate appearance, it's little wonder I've never found anything that interests me in A&F. Still, my problems with A&F have less to do with the sales reps than with the lighting and the fact that I have to fight my way through potted plants to get from one side of the store to the other. The most attitude I've gotten from one of the sales reps is when I wandered into Ambercrombie (sans Fitch) and the clerk informed me, "This is for... um... little kids." My God, how I wished I had then said "Hey, I'm all about that!"
His head is so far up his AZZ from all those nightly AZZfuckings that he doesn't realize it's the lame ugly wannabes who want to fit in badly that makes his sales what they are.

 

[robbie]

I would love to see them re-instate, or maybe go the levis xx route and turn over their archives/etc to a group dedicated to bringing back the brand my grandfather remembers... omega watches, safari coats, et cetera.