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• PRINT OF PERRY ELLIS DON’T WANT ‘BLACKS OR ANYONE WHO LOOKS TOO GAY’ ADS, EXEC CLAIMS LAWSU
• PERRY ELLIS PRINT ENFORCED "NO BLACKS OR GAYS" POLICY FOR AD MOLS, LAWSU CLAIMSA TOP GAY EXECUTIVE AT THE PANY IS SEEKG UNSPECIFIED DAMAG OVER THE DISCRIMATORY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MATTHEW THARRETTOCTOBER 22, 2015/12:51 PMBY MATTHEW THARRETTOCTOBER 22, 2015 / 12:51 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PERRY ELLIS PRINT ENFORCED \"NO BLACKS OR GAYS\" POLICY FOR AD MOLS, LAWSU CLAIMS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-22T16:51:22.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-22T16:51:22.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ATHETIC OF THE PERRY ELLIS CLOTHG BRAND IS NTROLLED BY A EPLY RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC MIDDLE-AGED WHE MAN WHO DON’T WANT BLACK OR GAY PEOPLE REPRENTG THE BRAND, A LAWSU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IRONILLY, THE BRAND WAS NAMED AFTER S GAY FOUNR, WHO DIED 1986 DUE TO AIDS-RELATED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: 15 MOLS OF COLOR WHO BROKE THE GLASS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS SU AGAST THE PANY, OPENLY GAY SENR EXECUTIVE JOSEPH COOK CLAIMS PERRY ELLIS PRINT OSR FELNKREIS TOLD HIM 2013 TO MAKE SURE THERE WERE “NO BLACKS MY ADS” AND THAT HE “DID NOT WANT ANYONE WHO LOOKED TOO GAY,” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SU ALSO ALLEG THAT FELNKREIS’S DGHTER ERI, A PERRY ELLIS BRAND DIRECTOR, ONCE NFIRMED HER FATHER’S DISCRIMATORY PRACTIC. “MY DAD DON’T LIKE HAVG BLACK GUYS HIS ADS, OR ANYONE WHO LOOKS TOO GAY,” SHE ALLEGEDLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN JUNE, FELNKREIS ALSO ALLEGEDLY TOLD COOK HE ULD AVOID JURY DUTY BY “TELLG THEM YOU HATE NI**ERS AND F*GS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I AM EPLY SADNED AS A GAY MAN AND SOMEONE WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF WHO I AM NO MATTER MY LOR OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN THAT A PANY EXECUTIVE ULD BE SO TOLERANT OF OTHERS,” COOK SAID A STATEMENT. ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, HE CLAIMS THE PANY IS "PLAGUED BY NEPOTISM THAT MAK PLAG ABOUT IMPROPER NDUCT A DNTG TASK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PERRY ELLIS BRAND, WHICH A CURSORY GOOGLE SEARCH SHOWS HAS FEATURED BLACK MOLS AND MOLS THAT LOOK A SMIDGE GAY TO OUR FE-TUNED EY THE PAST, "TEGORILLY NI" THE ALLEGATNS MA COOK'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE PANY IS PROUD OF THE FACT THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE PANI THE APPAREL BS,” PANY LAWYERS SAID A STATEMENT TO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• PERRY ELLIS: APUNT SOBRE LA VIDA UN íNO GAY LA MODA
• GWENDOLYN ELLIS GAY
• PERRY ELLIS BEG SUED 'FOR NOT PUTTG BLACKS OR GAYS ADS'

PRINT OF PERRY ELLIS DON’T WANT ‘BLACKS OR ANYONE WHO LOOKS TOO GAY’ ADS, EXEC CLAIMS LAWSU

11, 2013NEW YORK — It was lled “the love that dared not speak s name” when the artistic and flamboyant Osr Wil was vilified for his sexual persuasn at the end of the 19th long before the gay pri march, the pumped-up bodi on the streets of San Francis’s Castro district and same-sex marriage, homosexualy was absorbed to the language of the athetic ills worn to the so-lled “molly” clubs 19th-century London, through the flamboyant silken bathrobe of the playwright and poser Noël Coward to the lilac jacket of the Brish athete Bunny Roger and Liberace’s flamboyant folrals, men of a certa persuasn drsed to also were engaged the same athetic, like those who equented the notor lbian bars Paris the 1920s, or Marlene Dietrich her sexually ambivalent, mascule pantsus.

PERRY ELLIS PRINT ENFORCED "NO BLACKS OR GAYS" POLICY FOR AD MOLS, LAWSU CLAIMSA TOP GAY EXECUTIVE AT THE PANY IS SEEKG UNSPECIFIED DAMAG OVER THE DISCRIMATORY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY MATTHEW THARRETTOCTOBER 22, 2015/12:51 PMBY MATTHEW THARRETTOCTOBER 22, 2015 / 12:51 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PERRY ELLIS PRINT ENFORCED \"NO BLACKS OR GAYS\" POLICY FOR AD MOLS, LAWSU CLAIMS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-10-22T16:51:22.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-10-22T16:51:22.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW THARRETT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ATHETIC OF THE PERRY ELLIS CLOTHG BRAND IS NTROLLED BY A EPLY RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC MIDDLE-AGED WHE MAN WHO DON’T WANT BLACK OR GAY PEOPLE REPRENTG THE BRAND, A LAWSU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IRONILLY, THE BRAND WAS NAMED AFTER S GAY FOUNR, WHO DIED 1986 DUE TO AIDS-RELATED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: 15 MOLS OF COLOR WHO BROKE THE GLASS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS SU AGAST THE PANY, OPENLY GAY SENR EXECUTIVE JOSEPH COOK CLAIMS PERRY ELLIS PRINT OSR FELNKREIS TOLD HIM 2013 TO MAKE SURE THERE WERE “NO BLACKS MY ADS” AND THAT HE “DID NOT WANT ANYONE WHO LOOKED TOO GAY,” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SU ALSO ALLEG THAT FELNKREIS’S DGHTER ERI, A PERRY ELLIS BRAND DIRECTOR, ONCE NFIRMED HER FATHER’S DISCRIMATORY PRACTIC. “MY DAD DON’T LIKE HAVG BLACK GUYS HIS ADS, OR ANYONE WHO LOOKS TOO GAY,” SHE ALLEGEDLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN JUNE, FELNKREIS ALSO ALLEGEDLY TOLD COOK HE ULD AVOID JURY DUTY BY “TELLG THEM YOU HATE NI**ERS AND F*GS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I AM EPLY SADNED AS A GAY MAN AND SOMEONE WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF WHO I AM NO MATTER MY LOR OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN THAT A PANY EXECUTIVE ULD BE SO TOLERANT OF OTHERS,” COOK SAID A STATEMENT. ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, HE CLAIMS THE PANY IS "PLAGUED BY NEPOTISM THAT MAK PLAG ABOUT IMPROPER NDUCT A DNTG TASK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PERRY ELLIS BRAND, WHICH A CURSORY GOOGLE SEARCH SHOWS HAS FEATURED BLACK MOLS AND MOLS THAT LOOK A SMIDGE GAY TO OUR FE-TUNED EY THE PAST, "TEGORILLY NI" THE ALLEGATNS MA COOK'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE PANY IS PROUD OF THE FACT THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE PANI THE APPAREL BS,” PANY LAWYERS SAID A STATEMENT TO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Is a ground-breakg effort, explorg for the first time on mm terrory the fluence and origs of a subculture fed as LGBTQ — Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. “Gays have been hidn om fashn history bee was illegal for so long and stigmatized as a mental illns. “Fashn has been a se of cultural productn for gay people for 300 years and gay culture has huge impact on fashn history.

PERRY ELLIS: APUNT SOBRE LA VIDA UN íNO GAY LA MODA

AIDS stck jt as the secrets were beg revealed and male bodi flexed provotively after the watershed moment the Uned Stat of the 1969 Stonewall rts, when drag queens and gays were still harassed by the exhibn starts wh 18th century stum for the foppish “molli” and “maronis” (cludg a morn pastiche of that look by Vivienne Wtwood) and ends wh his-and-his sus for a gay Dennis scrib AIDS, first regnized the early 1980s, as the ‘’breakg pot of show” and says that is important for younger people to know their retrospect, the early years seem nocent, even the flamboyance of Liberace’s silken srlet rob, or the lilac Bunny Roger jacket.

Who uld image that after that joyo flntg that homosexualy would aga be engulfed by a dark si? Bowl, referrg to the Wil symbol durg the 19th-century athetic exhibn has a groupg of elegant outfs by gay signers om Cristóbal Balenciaga, through Pierre Balma, Christian Dr to Yv Sat Lrent, even though most of them did not “e out” at the Steele says that the curative duo has not “outed” those who have not publicly acknowledged their preference. The AIDS sectn is mostly a long le of T-shirts that eher rry activist ments or are prented as hazard warngs, as eedom the 1980s was stck by what was lled the gay “plague’ was no doubtg the sexual orientatn of the signers Jean Pl Gltier and Gianni Versace, both of whom have bold sectns the send half of the show.

In this area, foced on genr taboos, the exhibn looks not jt at the peack male, but on the sexual subculture of cloth for both sex: those inic Gltier ne-shaped bra tops and the Versace fetish hard, body-nsc piec seemed to fly a black leather flag over a world when sexual provotn and viatn had bee the display sounds tillatg rather than ede, is given pth the long scriptns and the multithor book wh the exhibn’s tle, g gay history scholars and published by Yale Universy display self is by the New York archect Joel Sanrs, thor of the 1996 book “Stud: Archectur of Masculy. The exhibn uld have ma more of multimedia to show the current gay pri paras and the more sister gay bashg that still go on, Rsia for example.

GWENDOLYN ELLIS GAY

Steele suggts, that homosexualy as a specific group only appeared after the slow breakdown of a fdal class system, when men at the apex of society thought natural to perate eher sex? The exhibn clos, as was bound to do, wh a tradnal visn of gay marriage: all happy upl, openly uned, at last, morn fashn story ends not on a flamboyant but on an ordary note: a pair sus. Perry Ellis has settled an explosive lawsu that acced the apparel pany’s print and COO of beg a racist homophobe, The Post has learned.

PERRY ELLIS BEG SUED 'FOR NOT PUTTG BLACKS OR GAYS ADS'

Perry Ellis also provid a statement on behalf of Cook, who is openly gay, which he appears to retract the allegatns his plat filed Manhattan feral urt. Cook said Osr told him and his team to make sure there are “no blacks my ads” or “anyone who looked too gay, ” acrdg to the plat. We don’t have issu wh blacks, women, gay people or Hispanics, ” he said.

” We were censed: Like most gays (and many straights), to polil liberatn meant the eedom to be promiscuo. We still had wounds om the ’60s, when New York would close a gay bar as soon as opened; 1969’s Stonewall uprisg was, after all, sparked by the ps shutterg a Greenwich Village dance bar.

In that pre-ter era, bars were the ma plac where gays met each other. Of urse there were many sick non-gay people: Haians, Amerin blacks, a high percentage of women. Racism and homophobia is style at the hight levels of high-end clothg le Perry Ellis, a new lawsu charg.