Abercrombie & Fitch Company

Abercrombie & Fitch earnings stumble, stock slumps

2013-05-24 08:21:00

Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. stumbled hard in its first quarter, with same-store sales diving 15% and profit missing Wall Street’s expectations. The company, fresh off a mea culpa over Chief Executive Mike Jeffries’ controversial...

A plus-size protest to Abercrombie and Fitch's backward thinking

2013-05-21 10:59:00

The scandal over Abercrombie and Fitch’s exclusionary marketing strategy, now into its third week, shows no sign of letting up. “You’ve probably heard about it if you are a teenager, have a teenager or if you like to wear your shorts...

Using the homeless to bash Abercrombie & Fitch not cool

2013-05-16 10:59:00

You may already have seen the video. “Abercrombie & Fitch is a terrible company,” intones the creator and star, Los Angeles writer Greg Karber. “Their CEO insists on only hiring� attractive people, which is ironic because he looks like...

Abercrombie & Fitch chief's 'cool kids' comments draw outrage

2013-05-10 09:58:00

Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer, has caught flak in recent days for controversial comments made in 2006 by its chief executive. The image-conscious company does not make or sell women’s clothing in any size above large, which is an...

Abercrombie & Fitch CEO's ugly quest for attractive 'cool kids'

2013-05-11 08:26:00

This week, a suburban Washington, D.C.-area mom packed up her three daughters’ Abercrombie & Fitch clothes and returned them to the firm’s chief executive, Mike Jeffries, with a note explaining that she wouldn’t be letting her kids...

The Morning Fix: 'Real Housewives' mess. A&F has a situation.

2011-08-17 16:33:34

Le Petit Petit mixes French savoir faire with California cool

2010-12-27 16:32:09

Fit fashion: Six brands to bring to the gym

2010-12-29 16:35:02

Rich Cronin dies at 36; lead singer for the boy band LFO

2010-09-10 00:00:00

Rich Cronin, the lead singer and songwriter for the band LFO who wrote the catchy 1999 hit "Summer Girls" — in which he rapped about Abercrombie and Fitch — has died of complications of leukemia. He was 36. Cronin, who was diagnosed with...

Hey, I'll tell you my Max if you tell me yours

2006-10-16 00:00:00

THERE are certain measurements that define us as men. Yes, there's that one. Then there's the maximum amount of weight you can raise in a bench press in a single stroke, known to red-faced, horizontally herniating gym rats everywhere as the "Max" -- as...

Spend City: Town square a new mega-mall in Las Vegas

2007-11-11 00:00:00

Like almost everything else in Las Vegas, the city has taken a favored pastime and turned it into a type of gold. Nowadays, shopping is not just about finding a blouse or a pair of shoes. It is about passing into a sort of browsers' twilight zone....

Tween style takes a modest turn

2009-04-05 00:00:00

Off-screen and in the real world, the "tame tween" phenomenon is already making itself felt, with both retailers and trend researchers noticing a general shift away from the edgy. "Kids are more modest than they would care to admit," says Kristen Taylor,...

Abercrombie & Fitch

2013-05-22 12:23:00

Kirstie Alley slammed Abercrombie honcho Michael Jeffries this week, taking personal shots at the chief exec in the wake of a media blast started by a story explaining why the clothing retailer wouldn't stock items in sizes larger than, well, large.

2013-05-17 14:11:00

Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries

2013-05-08 00:00:00