Have you been dying to wear your decades-old Tommy Hilfiger polo but are worried you would seem like a sell out if you did? No? Oh well.
In an effort to dispel the nasty 10-year-old rumor that he said he didn’t want blacks, Hispanics, or Jews wearing his clothes, Tommy Hilfiger went on Oprah yesterday clear his name.
The myth claims Hilfiger made these defamatory remarks on Oprah Winfrey’s show back in 1997, and Winfrey kicked him off the set. However, it was immediately proven that Hilfiger never made those remarks, nor had he ever met Winfrey or appeared on her show. Both parties have spent years dispelling the rumor that took on a life of its own.
“That is the category of what I call a BFL, a big fat lie. [It] never happened,” said Winfrey during Wednesday’s broadcast. “I called him [Hilfiger] personally when the rumors started up again, and said, ‘Let’s dispel this rumor once and for all.’”
Hilfiger said he enlisted the help of outside experts to try to trace the source of the rumor. As for the impact on his life, he said, “It hurt my integrity because at the end of the day, that’s all you have….Forget the money it has cost me. It cost me heartache,” said Hilfiger.
As a last ditch effort to keep his clothing line from fading into obscurity, it was a nice gesture, but it doesn’t have me running to the Junior’s section at Macy’s to pick out a new Tommy wardrobe.
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Tommy won’t give it up! Rehashing old issues won’t make peeps buy your clothes. Better designs will!
[…] The vast majority of the pictures from the Tao Beach Grand Opening festivities in Vegas over the weekend are pretty ridiculous, and the one above says it all. It screams we’re-rich-and-powerful-and-drunk-and-our-girlfriends-aren’t-here, doesn’t it? I couldn’t justify giving the photo of the two of them holding stacks of cash (I’m serious) the place of prominence in the post, but check it and others from the weekend out after the jump. Did you not believe me? Nelly also left his lady at home for boy rappers’ night out. 50 and Jeezy are really feeling the music. Aww, Alonzo and Tracy Mourning. Somebody wasn’t afraid to bring his wife. Jay-Z seems to be performing Will Smith’s “Gettin Jiggy Wit It” dance with a champagne bottle. Usher can’t look. Jeezy and Nelly, looking less drunk than they probably are. Dwyane Wade and (smh) Wesley Snipes at an earlier benefit at Tao Beach. “I love black people! I’m posing with Steve Stout! Buy my clothes!” […]
It’s good proof though..I hope now I stop getting e-mails about this rumor. Most people know its not true at this point.. -slimboi
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