The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Allegations of exploitation and abuse have emerged at one of the biggest fashion brands in the US. Former CEO Mike Jeffr | dG1fYTFCOWoyS3lFWTA

Transcript

00:00 I was escorted to the front doors of the bedroom.

00:05 When I entered that room, the door was closed behind me.

00:08 My feeling of being in that room was an animal.

00:11 I was not a human to any of these people.

00:15 I was a body.

00:18 I was being presented to someone

00:22 to do what they wanted with.

00:28 What happened to me changed my life,

00:32 and not for the better.

00:34 My name's Rihanna. I'm a journalist with the BBC

00:51 and I've been carrying out some research about the experiences of models.

00:55 For almost three years, I've been investigating a dark secret

00:59 in the US fashion industry.

01:01 They did recruit men, and they certainly did have sex with them.

01:06 They could destroy you if they wanted to. We all knew that.

01:10 At the heart of this secret was one man,

01:13 the man behind one of the biggest fashion brands in the world.

01:17 It's probably the darkest experience I've ever dealt with.

01:23 He was viewed as a form of genius.

01:25 The modern-day founder of Abercrombie & Fitch, Mike Jeffries.

01:30 The head of a very powerful, very wealthy organisation.

01:34 My investigation has taken me across the US.

01:38 By the time the men would have arrived, where were they going to go?

01:42 I mean, how easy could it have been to have left?

01:44 Speaking to men who say they were exploited and abused.

01:48 Yes? Are we rolling? Take one.

01:51 I think he's a deviant, I think he's a predator.

01:54 I don't think that's what the public has seen.

01:56 I was overwhelmed. I mean, I've never seen anything like this.

01:59 What I'd like to talk about is being lied to, tricked,

02:03 and traded like a commodity.

02:05 Hey! Ho-ho!

02:07 Me Too has empowered women to speak out about sexual abuse.

02:11 Oh, no! What a girl!

02:15 Now these men say they want to be heard too.

02:19 I think it's rarely considered that men could be a victim of anything.

02:24 They face a double stigma,

02:26 and I don't think that men have quite had their Me Too movement.

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