Fashion store criticised for its 'look policy'

Added on Friday 12 Feb 2010

Fashion giant's desire for only cool and good-looking staff branded plain ugly - A Global fashion giant was yesterday at the centre of a discrimination row after a controversial job advert for "cool and good-looking" staff was put up at a new Scottish store. The American-based retail clothing firm Abercrombie & Fitch is due to open its first store north of the Border in the new Union Square mall in Aberdeen. Last year Abercrombie & Fitch was ordered to pay £9,000 to Riam Dean, 22, a law student with a prosthetic arm, who claimed she was banished to the stockroom of the firm's flagship store in London's Savile Row because she did not fit its "look" policy.

Source:  The Scotsman