History of Leslie Wexner, all his CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch did to help Usher in the Beast system, Wexner's connections to Epstein and Originals owner of A&F!
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ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH, WEXNER, EPSTEIN AND THE PEDOPHILE NORMALIZATION AGENDA
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Original Mansion Abercrombie lived in,
Concerning Abercrombie and Fitch, it's connections to pedophilia normalization and the link between it's owner and Epstein, it stands to reason that it's early founding history plays a pivotal role. Especially when you trace the ownership of Epstein's Manhattan Mansion and all the secrets it holds.
According to Media dot Think,
David T. Abercrombie Co. opened in 1892 as the place for hunters to shop in the early 1900s. Attorney Ezra Fitch bought a portion of the company in 1904, which prompted a rebrand to Abercrombie & Fitch.
Sportsmen from all over the country, including Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindberg, and Ernest Hemingway, shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch, but its popularity did not last. Abercrombie & Fitch filed for bankruptcy in 1976 and soon closed its flagship store in Manhattan, marking the first major identity crisis for the company.
Two years later, A&F was acquired by Oshman’s Sporting Goods for $1.5 million, but the brand was still focused on hunting wear. With its old mailing list in hand, Oshman's turned A&F into a mail-order retailer with few physical locations. Selling the same wares as before with a few novelty items thrown in, A&F struggled once more as it failed to find a consistent market.
Enter Leslie Wexner
When Oshman's gave up and put the brand up for sale, Leslie Wexner, the founder of The Limited, bought it for $47 million in 1988. He then set out to do what he did with Victoria’s Secret: figure out what the store had been doing wrong and how he could turn that around.
To do this, he brought in CEO Michael Jeffries, who transformed Abercrombie & Fitch into a clothing store aimed at teens and made the brand most know it for today. Abercrombie & Fitch started selling casual, preppy clothes with some sex appeal, while also debuting catalogs and marketing featuring half naked models.
In 1999, seven years after Jeffries took the reigns, A&F became a part of the cultural zeitgeist when the pop/rap group LFO released the song “Summer Girls” with the lyrics: "I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch, I'd take her if I had one wish." This was the pinnacle of Abercrombie & Fitch's pre-2000's success, and it would grow even further as Wexner had an idea to specifically target the 14-18 demographic, AKA the "cool kids" of high schools across America.
The New York Times in a 1998 article states that,
The Limited Inc. was redistributing it's shares.
The Limited Inc. announced a plan yesterday to spin off the 84 percent stake it owns in Abercrombie & Fitch Inc., making Abercrombie a fully independent company. Under the deal, meant to be tax-free to shareholders, Limited stockholders could swap some or all of their Limited shares for Abercrombie & Fitch shares, with each Limited share worth between 0.72 and 0.86 of an Abercrombie & Fitch share. Limited said it planned to distribute all of its 43.6 million shares of Abercrombie stock through the offering. Abercrombie was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Limited until Abercrombie's initial public offering in 1996. Limited shares rose $2, to $31.375, while Abercrombie lost 93.75 cents, to $42.875.
The Hollister Co. brand of Abercrombie and Fitch
Hollister Co. specifically sells clothing that caters to teens, with the typical store having dimmed lights and loud alternative rock music to attract potential buyers.
That was also the year A&F went international; the first Abercrombie & Fitch outside of the U.S. was opened in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada on January 20, 2006. A year later on March 22, it had a store across the pond in London, England.
By the early 2010’s, A&F had nearly 1,000 stores in total spanning the globe from Japan to England to its first ever home of Manhattan.
Wexner had done it again; he found the formula for success with a failing brand and transformed it into a massive success. But it was not without its controversies, nor its lawsuits or recent decline in its overall presence among consumers
The first Hollister store opened in Columbus, Ohio on July 27, 2000. That contradicted what Abercrombie & Fitch used to claim, as it said that Hollister was founded in California. It wouldn't have a store in that state until October 2000 in Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park.
From 2001 to 2008, the Abercrombie and Fitch empire went through massive expansion. During those eight years, 461 stores opened in that time, with 349 of them being Hollister shops. The biggest year for its growth was in 2006, when 65 stores opened across all A&F brands — more than one for every week in that calendar year.
Now let's take a Quick look at Leslie Wexner's business profile,
Les Wexner founded and runs L Brands, a global retail empire that includes Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works.
One of America's longest-serving CEOs, he has served as the company's CEO since founding the business more than five decades ago.
Wexner's former confidant and financial manager Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sex trafficking; now Wexner says the late Epstein took funds from him.
Wexner got his start in 1963, when he used a $5,000 loan from his aunt to open The Limited, which sold only fast-moving items like shirts and pants.
He bought Victoria's Secret for $1 million in 1982, when it was just a small, failing chain of lingerie shops in San Francisco.
Today L Brands sells more than $13 billion worth of lingerie, soaps and candles annually across more than 2,900 stores around the world.
What's interesting is his profile also says he is a self made billionaire.
In 1963, Wexner was lent $5,000 from an aunt to start The Limited (so named because the store focused on a limited amount of merchandise that turned over quickly and so generated greater revenues, unlike his parents' store.
Wexner is the longest serving CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Wexner was ranked #11 on Harvard Business Review’s Top 100 Best Performing CEOs of 2015, and #34 in 2016.
Over the years, Wexner built a retailing and marketing conglomerate that currently includes Victoria's Secret, Pink (Victoria's Secret), Bath & Body Works, Henri Bendel, The White Barn Candle Company, and La Senza. Previous brands that were spun off include: Lane Bryant, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lerner New York, The Limited Too (now Tween Brands, Inc.), Structure 9, Aura Science, The Limited (which has closed its brick-and-mortar stores while retaining its online presence), and Express (which has closed its Canadian stores and hundreds of its US-based stores.
What one might find concerning about his "Philanthropy" or what I like to call killing two birds with one stone by Virtue Signaling. . ."lookee over here at All my good works," while using it as a means to funnel exorbitant funds into Globalist ventures that support Agenda 21 and 30.
For example,
In 1989, Wexner and his mother Bella were the first to make a $1 million personal donation to the United Way. Both of their names were inscribed in marble, and are on display in the lobby of the United Way Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.
Well That's prestigious now isn't it? Is it?
In 1928, a Community Chest organization was established in Cape Town, South Africa. (In 2015, continued neglect by United Way Worldwide, including legal and financial scandals, has led to no active United Way presence in the country and completely severed ties with Community Chest.
By 1974, there were enough United Way organizations internationally to demand the kind of support provided by the national organization, United Way of America and United Way International was born (later these organizations were joined together and renamed to United Way Worldwide).
So we can safely say. . .a Globalist Entity!
Ouch. ..I didn't know Executive of Non-Profits made Such HUGE profits! Okay, I did, and it's way I am Not a proponent of Major non-profits. Follow the money trail!
Chris Brian Gallagher, former head of United Way in Columbus, Ohio, accepted the job in 2002[7] and as president and CEO, Brian Gallagher was compensated over $1.5 million in 2012[8] with eight executives receiving over $300,000 in compensation in 2013.[9] In 2014, Brian Gallagher received $1.54 million in compensation while the organization experienced its largest worldwide loss in revenue, volunteers, and donors in many years.
In the 2007 Philanthropy 400, United Way Worldwide was again the largest charity in the United States, with 1,285 local United Ways reporting over $4.2 billion in contributions, a 2.2% increase over 2006.[11]
In May 2009, United Way of America and United Way International were integrated as one global entity, United Way Worldwide.
So you see, as I know many of you were catching on Years before I woke up. . ."Philanthropy" yet another way these anti-christ supporters make it look to the general population like they are doing "Good Works," but are just providing cloak and cover for Where their money goes. . .to support the Eye!
They Claim this which is Quite concerning. . .
Because of the unique conditions in each community, the issues United Ways address are determined locally. Some common themes emerge:
Helping children and youth succeed through engagement
Strengthening and supporting families
Improving access to health care
Promoting financial stability
YIKES! Almost a million children missing in the United States alone and CPS shown over and over to have a Great deal of corruption. How are they "helping" exactly!
Well we know their **first " million dollar personal donator was tied Directly to a known pedophile who was also charged with Conspiracy. I believe we Know who may have had knowledge as to how Epstein's Manhattan mansion was laid out And what he was up to there as Wexner was not only one of his clients and friends, but gave him that mansion for just $10. More on That later.
I'm not going to go over all his "virtue signaling" fronts, just this paragraph Alone speaks Volumes!
In 1991, Wexner formed with billionaire Charles Bronfman the Study Group, which is more widely known as the Mega Group. The group was a loosely organized club of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential businessmen who were concerned with Jewish issues. Max Fischer, Michael Steinhardt, Leonard Abramson, Edgar Bronfman, and Laurence Tisch were some of the members. The group would meet twice a year for two days of seminars related to the topic of philanthropy and Jewishness. In 1998, Steven Spielberg spoke about his personal religious journey, and later the group discussed Jewish summer camps. The group, which Wexner co-chaired with Charles Bronfman, went on to inspire a number of philanthropic initiatives such as the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, Birthright Israel, and the upgrading of national Hillel.
Just one Big YIKES after Another!
I believe you will find in this list Many Possible people to fit that co-conspirator list tied to Epstein.
For instance, Edgar Bronfman. ..Clare and Sara Bronfman's father. The two sisters who funded Keith Raniere of NEXIVM. See more info here,
Now Stephen Bronfman, who backed Trudeau is the cousin to Clare and Sara Bronfman. His father is Charles Bronfman and grandfather was Samuel Bronfman.
For more info did a recent report here titled,
Stephen Bronfman huge backer to Trudeau, cousin Clare of NEXIVM Bronfmans Roots and Rothschilds
Series of reports on Allison Mack's high powered attorney that "Get's around" including military exercises conducted in a building he is connected to right next to his offices there in Long Beach called the Guatemalan House of Culture. They carried out a target in hazmats suits. Interesting he was Also connected to Erin Brockovich.
Attorney for Allison Mack, Erin Brockovich married to Erika Jayne of RHBH. Girardi & Nexivm, GHC
See even More connections in steemit article link below in sources.
Back to Leslie Wexner himself!
This is concerning for Numerous reasons,
Wexner hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in 2012
In 2015, Wexner donated $500,000 to the Right to Rise USA Super-Pac that supported the 2016 presidential campaign of Jeb Bush.
The diabolical history of the Bush fam runs Deep right into Hitler connections!
The true history Bush family, George H.W. Bush and the role his family played in WWII
Not to mention. . .the Bushes received one of those Little Notices that, by the look on their faces was Not so little!
If looks could kill! The Bush Funeral, Jeb, Laura Hillary, what did they see? Qanon drops CF
Now let's take a dive into more in depth connections and You will See Why they are important!
History of the beginnings of Abercrombie and Fitch in the late 1800's
Davit Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch. Who were they?
The company was founded in 1892 in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, by David T. Abercrombie as an outfitter for the elite outdoorsman.
Ezra Fitch a wealthy lawyer, and real estate developer, and devoted customer of the Abercrombie Company bought a significant interest in the business in 1900.
In 1904, it was incorporated and renamed "Abercrombie & Fitch Co." Fitch eventually bought Abercrombie's share of the business becoming the sole owner from 1907 to 1928.
Abercrombie & Fitch was an elite outfitter of sporting and excursion goods, particularly noted for its expensive shotguns, fishing rods, fishing boats, and tents.
At one time it had outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's safari and Adm. Richard E. Byrd's expedition to Antarctica.
Now That is Quite interesting for a slew of reasons!
Ernest Hemingway was also a regular customer and following the writer's death in 1961 his wife placed several of his guns on consignment with Abercrombie and Fitch.
Business started struggling in the 1970's likely from their lavish and extensive inventory holdings so In 1976, Abercrombie & Fitch filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, finally closing its flagship store at Madison Avenue and East 45th Street in 1977.
Shortly thereafter the name was revived in 1978; Oshman's Sporting Goods, a Houston-based chain owned by Jake Oshman, bought the defunct firm's name and mailing list for $1.5 million ($5.9 million in 2017 dollars). Oshman's relaunched A&F as a mail-order retailer specializing in hunting wear and novelty items. It also opened shops in Beverly Hills, Dallas, and (by the mid-1980s) New York City. Finally,
Comes under Wexner in 1988 rebranded as teen clothing store
in 1988, Oshman's sold the company name and operations to The Limited, a clothing-chain operator based in Columbus, Ohio. Abercrombie & Fitch gradually shifted its focus to young adults, first as a subsidiary of Limited Brands and then as a separate, publicly traded company; and grew to become one of the largest apparel firms in the United States.
Pedophile Normalization Culture promoted and signaled
What Victoria’s Secret called “magic” is was hyper-sexualization of children. If indeed they were targeting 15 and 16 year old girls then the sizes wouldn’t be small enough to fit children as young as 8. Besides, if they weren’t targeting tweenies they wouldn’t have had Bieber performing at their shows since 2012 and until he lost luster.
Who was all about sex Magick?
Their heralded satanist Aliester Crowley
The underwear targeted for teens and tween had many suggestive phrases on them and also promoted the use of thongs. Why would a 12-14 year old need to wear a thong?
Calling girl’s in their tweens things and objectifying them was a concern too. “Campaigns like this encourage girls to think of themselves as objects and not as full-fledged humans with ideas and feelings” said Dana Udall-Weiner, a Santa Fe, N.M., psychologist who works with girls on body image in an interview with Time Magazine back in 2013.
Why in the world would tweens and teens wear undies that declare “Dare You,” “Call Me” or “Feeling Lucky?” or “After Party” and t-shirts saying “Enjoy the View”?
When NBC’s TODAY show reported on the “Bright Young Things” product launch, the reporter said: “The latest campaign features underwear too racy to show here.” Obviously, if underwear for tweens and teens is too racy for daytime TV it shouldn’t be made for tweens and teens?
Over sexualizing children is not just by pushing lingerie. Many retailers do this around the world. In 2017 a fashion show put on in China made global headlines of outrage making it seem like something new. It’s incredible how we forget the global outrage nude teenagers in posters in 2002 sparked.
Why are Children being encouraged to do this and see themselves as objects, barely clothed no less?
Do you want this for your children? No Good parent does.
See more in an article done recently on steemit in sources below.
There are many such brands and as stated it’s not just Victoria’s Secret that targets children .. Abercrombie & Fitch, also have come under fire. Back in 2002 Abercrombie & Fitch, angered many consumer advocacy groups with its summer and Christmas catalogs showing sexually provocative teenage-looking models apparently in the nude.
This is Outrageous, but not to those who are attempting to normalize pedophilia and are pushing for a + and a P after LGBTQ.
Since their re-vamp by Wexner, Abercrombie & Fitch have been recalling racist, derogatory and over sexualized apparel for tweens and teens. IN fact their 2009 BACK TO SCHOOL collection of graphic tees was atrocious. One t-shirt for girls had a picture of a girl flashing two men with her blouse open and the words “Show the Twins” on it. Their Back-To-School line was making sex more mainstream and part of tween and teen recreation.
Abercrombie & Fitch were a concern as Gene Ellerbee, VP of West Coast Operations for NCPCF had said to Seattle PI. The National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families (NCPCF) had collected anecdotal evidence of teens as young as 13 or 14 purchasing the magalog. The BACK TO SCHOOL magazine of 2003 is below. How would you feel knowing tweenies are reading that?
I won't be showing the fully nude pages and keep in mind This is for pre-teens, this shouldn't be marketed to teen or any Children!
Here is the cover marketed to children for Back to School. Remember, this was in 2003 so even if Your household didn't receive it, it is highly likely friends' households Did and if not, friends of friends. Children were already engaging on social network there even in gaming and chats.
Here's the cover!
Note written from their ad prep,
Toward end of pedo mag sent out to advertise to tweens and teens to encourage their pedo normalization is this from Slavoj
Check out their pedo programming and completely breaking down the barriers between adults and children by trying to make children think this is not only Okay. . .but trendy!
Their sick fantasies marketed to kids!
Now see if you can spot all the MK ultra training and remember what monarch butterfly training is. For more info see sources,
To make a long, sordid and drawn out story short. . .they said they would only allow those 18+ to access the magazine. Oh Really? So Pedophiles you mean?
More involved and you can see what I have so far in sources.
Will be putting a length to a far more in depth study on this coming soon.
You can listen to more regarding this while you do chores or work here,
Epstein friends,partakers Evidence A magazine for pre-teens inappropriate photos from 2003
Now with knowing All of that, isn't it interesting that though Abercrombie and Fitch spun off into it's Own Company. . .(Just a way of redistributing funds by the way, which is something these elitists and controllers are Notorious for doing) Leslie Wexner even though this occured. ..make No Mistake, Wexner Still owned the company and was Well aware of what Jeffries was doing. I mean, he was Hired by Wexner.
Jeffries was hired by Leslie Wexner (CEO of LBrands, then named The Limited) to invigorate Abercrombie & Fitch. The company, founded in 1892, had been purchased by Limited Brands in 1988 after bankruptcy. Jeffries is considered to have been the main creator of the new look for the company, saying that he wanted A&F to "sizzle with sex".
Well you saw how he did that. . .Peophilia normalization and Wexner did Nothing to stop it. ..Wexner's company!
Media dot Think puts it this way,
By the early 2010’s, A&F had nearly 1,000 stores in total spanning the globe from Japan to England to its first ever home of Manhattan.
Wexner had done it again; he found the formula for success with a failing brand and transformed it into a massive success. But it was not without its controversies, nor its lawsuits or recent decline in its overall presence among consumers.
Along with selling an objectively racist t-shirt and settling a race and discrimination lawsuit over hiring practices, the company's main controversy in its recent history stems from the sex appeal that seemed to be the driving force of its brand.
And A&F, specifically its CEO Michael Jeffries, admitted that it was.
In a 2006 interview with Salon, Jeffries said that A&F’s image and business was built around sex appeal. He wanted to "hire good-looking people" to market to the "cool kids." He candidly said the brand was intentionally exclusive, because "a lot of people don't belong in our clothes."
Although A&F would continue success through the early 2010's, this attitude would soon catch up on the brand. Jeffries retired in 2014 after 11 straight quarters of same store sales declines, and even after his exit, sales were still plunging.
In 2015, A&F reported a net loss of $63 million for its first quarter, and made $72.8 million in operating income. That would drop to $15.2 million the next year, and it soon started fielding takeover offers while closing 54 stores.
It closed another 39 stores and downsized 16 in 2017, and this year, it is closing 60 A&F and Hollister stores. Since 2010, the company closed more than 400 stores, and 60% of its leases are expiring over the next two years.
Their pedo magazine targeting Tweens and Teens was Not their only controversy with Jeffries (hired By Wexner, who was Still the owner of Abercrombie and Fitch)
For example. . .
During this time, A&F has offended groups as diverse as the feminist movement and the American Decency Association, and has attracted a fair number of other controversies and lawsuits. An outspoken businessman, Jeffries has been quoted making statements in the press that are considered controversial. Such comments include his assertion that "We hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don't market to anyone other than that."
Whoa. ..That's Quite a lot for someone who caused Controversy. I suppose Controversy and blurring the boundaries along with Blatant pedophile normalization pays a great deal. Not the barely able to exist funds the rest of us make eking out an existence or paying just to exist!
In 2004, he made approximately $25 million USD with a "stay bonus" of $6 million USD, which dropped from $12 million after a controversy involving his "excessive compensation". After surveying 2,000 US corporations, the Corporate Library named Jeffries as the "Highest Paid Worst Performer" of 2008, after he received a compensation package valued at $71.8 million. Jeffries refused to lower prices or offer discounts at Abercrombie & Fitch stores during the retail recession until September 2009, after the company posted same store sales losses for 17 consecutive months.
Jeffries' employment agreement was set to expire December 31, 2008. On December 22, 2008, A&F corporate announced that it had been renewed. It expired on February 22, 2014.
His total compensation in 2011 was estimated at $46,609,075, most of this being in the form of stock options.
Jeffries owns about 2.9% of the company's shares making him difficult to remove without his consent. His most recent contract calls for a payout of over one hundred million dollars should he lose his job due to an ownership change.
Can't help but Notice how Much they Adore their Numbers they Flash Always!
Commentator Herb Greenberg named Jeffries the worst CEO of 2013. Greenberg pointed out that the share price for Abercrombie and Fitch had collapsed by 40% during the year. This was after Jim Cramer of CNBC had earlier named Jeffries to his "Wall of Shame".
Jeffries was once one of the best-paid CEOs in retail but he saw his compensation shrink 72 percent in 2013. His total pay was $2.24 million in the fiscal year of 2013, which ended February 1. That was down from $8.16 million in the previous year and $48.1 million before that.
So let's just break this down Quick like. . .7+2 is 9 in 2013 you have two 3's (33 think 33rd degree mason). Ended Feb. 1 so there's a 3 with Feb. being the 2nd month. 8.16 encodes a 9 and 6 as above so below so there's two 6's.
On December 9, 2014, Jeffries stepped down as A&F CEO amid mass criticism of the company's performance and 11 straight quarters of negative company comparable-store sales. The shares jumped 8 percent after the move was announced, marking the biggest one-day gain in more than nine months.
So he left on a 9 and an 11 quarters of Negative Sales. Who is the anti. ..anti-christ beast system. Definitely signaling for them and doing their bidding all at the hiring and leaving in play of Leslie Wexner!
If you dig deeper into Mike Jeffries you will find info like this...
On April 3, 1971, in Miami, Florida, Jeffries married Susan Marie Isabel Hansen, daughter of Charles Henry Hansen, president and founder of Charles Hansen Music Publishing. They have one child, Andrew Hansen Jeffries.
Following a quiet separation from his wife, Jeffries lives with his partner Matthew Smith and three dogs. Smith heads the Jeffries Family Office, an Ohio limited liability corporation that "advocates for the personal interests of Abercrombie's CEO." Smith also reviews internal Abercrombie & Fitch documents and consults on real estate matters. Smith, a former hair dresser, often inspected the A&F offices by walking through and doing "desk checks" to keep offices, conference rooms, and employee dress to strict standards published in employee memos. His involvement with the running of Abercrombie & Fitch has been criticized in some quarters as an example of poor corporate governance, since he holds no official position within the company.
Ezra Fitch
Ezra spent his early years growing up at the Roswell Reed estate on the banks of the Hudson in Coxsackie built by his grandfather around 1850. The estate included a large Gothic Revival mansion, numerous dependent structures and a dock on the river from which the family conducted a profitable freighting business. R. R. Fitch lived in Brooklyn for a time, working as an agent for an asphalt company
According to the A&F company, Fitch was "restless and bored with his profession". He enjoyed the outdoors, and spent his leisure time yachting, climbing the Adirondacks and fishing in the streams of the Catskills. When David Abercrombie opened his excursions store Abercrombie Co. in 1892, Fitch became the store's "most devoted customer."
In 1900, Fitch bought a major share into the ever-successfully growing company and thus became partners with Abercrombie: supposedly he had to "[convince]" Abercrombie into it. By 1904, Fitch's surname was incorporated into the company's name as "Abercrombie & Fitch Co." A&F calls Fitch an innovator, and claims that "it can't be done" was not in his vocabulary.
Although both men shared financial success with the company, they became rather an annoyance to one another as is common in company partnerships. Fitch disputed with Abercrombie about who best to manage the company. Fitch wanted to expand the company to the general public, whereas Abercrombie, who was conservative, wanted the company to remain as a store for the elite. In the end, Abercrombie sold his share to Fitch in 1907.
During the Fitch era of the Abercrombie & Fitch Co., the company experienced great success. Fitch expanded and managed the company to great levels of popularity. He created its first mail-order catalog, released in 1909.
The historical introduction of Mahjong to the United States from China has been attributed to Fitch as merchandise in the Abercrombie & Fitch store in 1920.
In 1928, Fitch retired from the company, leaving it under new management. He died on June 16, 1930 on his newly built 60-foot cruising yacht 'Content' at Santa Barbara, California, only a few days after moving on to the boat. The ship's Captain A.Van Valin, wrote to the builders, Fellows & Stewart, asking them to re-sell the yacht. The Content was eventually sold and then purchased by Johnny Depp.
Got to wonder if they ever learned their lesson?
Current instagram photo and comments. Comments are Always interesting aren't they?
Comments. . .
The swing ring case was invented by Ezra Fitch in 1879 as part of the design of a waterproof case, see Fitch Swing Ring Case. Fitch's case had a carrier for the movement that was hinged to the case so that the movement could be swung out from the front and there was no need for a separate case back. This is the swing ring element. A screw down front bezel made the remaining front joint watertight. The entrance to the case for the stem was sealed by the simple expedient of a cap that completely enclosed the crown and stem and screwed down onto the end of the pendant.
The swing ring part of Fitch's design proved to be surprisingly long lasting. The image here is taken from Robert Pringle & Sons "Wilderness" catalogue for 1932. It is from a page marked "Special Dust and Waterproof Watches". The page includes Borgel, screw back and bezel and hermetic watches, and also a cushion shape watch by Helvetia with "a patent device for rendering the stem watertight".
He married Sarah Huntington Sturges in Brooklyn in 1897.[8] She was the daughter of Stephen Buckingham Sturges (1827-1897), a banker, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, and Sarah Minerva Cary (1833-) of Syracuse, New York.
David Abercrombie was the son of a Scottish industrialist, who’s steel formed the backbone of the USS Monitor, and helped prop up the dome of the US Capitol building. The young Abercrombie forged his own path, becoming an avid outdoorsman, hunter and sportsman. He worked as a skilled topographer, and explorer for the Norfolk and Western Railroad. But Abercrombie soon became exasperated with the lack of high quality, outdoor equipment.
In 1892, he opened a small shop at 36, South Street in Lower Manhattan, close by the canvas sail makers of the old waterfront. Abercrombie started to sell canvas tents, leather boots, rifles, and everything else needed to mount an expedition into the wilderness.
From the outset, Abercrombie put an emphasis on stocking his shop with luxury, high end, stylish equipment, attracting customers like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway, as well as outfitting perilous expeditions to the Polar regions, South America and Africa. Being situated downtown, Abercrombie also attracted the wealthy huntsmen and sporting gentlemen of Wall Street. One regular customer was Ezra Fitch.
Born into privilege in a Greek Revival mansion in Coxsackie, New York in 1865, Ezra Fitch spent his youth horseback riding, hunting and fishing. As a successful businessman in Lower Manhattan, Fitch spent so much time frequenting Abercrombie’s shop, he eventually bought into it.
you could even buy a deluxe, onyx chessboard for $18,000. Their pioneering catalogue could be found in the smoking rooms and libraries of every well to do gentlemen explorer and sportsman in America, and their physical store would move uptown.
Elda was surrounded by nearly fifty acres of woodland; from its ramparts, you had wide reaching views of the river and valley. The castle itself had twenty-five rooms, spiral staircases, turrets, libraries, resembling a comfortable Scottish hunting lodge, with hunted animals mounted on the walls, and easy chairs arranged around the vast fireplace. Outside were stables, woods and streams for horseback riding, hunting and fishing.
But the idyllic castle would soon become shrouded in sadness; the youngest Abercrombie daughter died in a fire aged just three, whilst the son was killed by a horse on an expedition out west. After David Abercrombie died in 1931, just three years after moving into Elda, his widow moved to New Jersey, and the castle lay empty through the 1940s, when it began to fall apart. Several owners tried to save the once grand home, but it has been abandoned for many years.
The forest has gradually grown up around Elda castle, almost reaching its turret. But the building itself remains strong and intact, built from local hewn stone, and Abercrombie’s father’s steel.
Speaking of Mansions. . .a Great deal has taken place at Epstein's Manhattan Mansion that Wexner gave him for just $10.
World News dot Net asks these valid questions,
For those immersed in the Jewish world, there’s an added question: How did Wexner — a prominent philanthropist seen as a champion of Jewish learning and ethical teaching, whose foundation has trained waves of rabbis, Jewish professionals and volunteer board leaders — end up so enmeshed and enamored with a future convicted sex offender and alleged sex trafficker?
Is Wexner connected to the sex abuse accusations against Epstein? Has the philanthropist been accused of any wrongdoing? Does any of this taint Wexner’s legacy or the beneficiaries of his many programs?
Since the Epstein sex scandal resurfaced this year, these questions have dogged Wexner, the owner of Victoria’s Secret who at one point was Epstein’s only known financial client. Wexner was very close with Epstein and trusted him as a money manager and legal representative.
Wexner also ventured into real estate, developing the posh community of New Albany, Ohio, where Wexner lives in a 60,000-square-foot mansion. According to Forbes, he’s worth $4.6 billion.
Nothing, and everything. For decades, if Wexner spent any money, Epstein was likely connected to it somehow. Epstein, a former prep school teacher, had entered the finance world and gained a reputation as an astute money manager for the super-wealthy. He met Wexner in the 1980s, and the two forged a close relationship. Epstein eventually received power of attorney over Wexner’s finances.
In a statement last week distributed by his foundation, Wexner wrote that Epstein “had wide latitude to act on my behalf with respect to my personal finances while I focused on building my company and undertaking philanthropic efforts.”
In 2003, Wexner told Vanity Fair that Epstein had “excellent judgment and unusually high standards.”
Okay, so That's pretty concerning when plenty of people testified all Epstein wanted to do was party and really never gave Them any wise investment advise.
Epstein also was involved with Wexner’s charitable efforts. In 1990, the two helped fund the construction of a new building for the Harvard Hillel. Two years later, after Wexner’s mother fell ill, Epstein replaced her on the Wexner Foundation board.
In his recent statement, Wexner insisted that Epstein “had no executive responsibilities in the running of the Foundation” and “did not work directly with Foundation staff, and he did not engage with leadership initiatives in any way.”
Sounds like they were really close.
Yes, and their relationship was more than a typical professional one. They were invested together in Wexner’s Ohio real estate development. Epstein lived in Wexner’s New York City townhouse for years, eventually acquiring it, along with acquiring a private plane from Wexner.
Epstein also supervised the construction of Wexner’s yacht, Limitless, and was a frequent guest at Wexner’s Ohio parties, according to The New York Times. The Times also reported that Epstein froze out some of Wexner’s friends and acquaintances from his life.
When Epstein was first investigated in the mid-2000s, for unlawful sex acts with a minor, he denied the allegations. Eventually, however, he accepted a deal under which he pleaded guilty for two counts of solicitation of prostitution — one with a minor. Wexner says he broke off his relationship with Epstein in 2007 and later found out that Epstein had taken a lot of money from him.
So has anyone implicated Wexner in Epstein’s crimes? And what does this have to do with Alan Dershowitz?
Wexner’s name has been dragged into an ongoing legal battle between Alan Dershowitz and one of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and her lawyers.
Dershowitz had his own personal and professional relationship with Epstein. They were close (Dershowitz has said he loved talking with Epstein and would show him drafts of his books) and the high-profile lawyer has helped represent Epstein. Epstein once brought Dershowitz to one of Wexner’s parties — as, Dershowitz says, an “intellectual gift” to Wexner.
YUCK!
Two of Epstein’s alleged victims, including Giuffre, have accused Dershowitz of sexual assault, which he denies. Dershowitz claims that the accusations against him were part of a plot by one of Giuffre’s attorneys, David Boies, to extort money from Wexner.
According to a report in the Miami Herald, another of Giuffre’s lawyers, Stanley Pottinger, submitted an affidavit saying his client said that under Epstein’s direction, she had sex with both Dershowitz and Wexner.
Some of Epstein’s alleged abuse occurred at the Manhattan townhouse once owned by Wexner, where Epstein lived. Another Epstein accuser, Maria Farmer, said Epstein hired her to work on a mural at Wexner’s home in Ohio in the summer of 1996, and assaulted her there. In an affidavit, she asserted that “Wexner’s security staff refused to let me leave the property” and that she was held against her will for approximately 12 hours.
Farmer said that after returning to New York, she filed a report with the police and the FBI.
Farmer’s affidavit does not suggest Wexner himself was involved with or knew about the incident.
Federal authorities thus far have not implicated Wexner in Epstein’s crimes, according to Bloomberg, but prosecutors are still investigating which if any of Epstein’s business associates were involved with his alleged crimes. In a statement posted in July, Wexner insisted (in all caps) that “I was NEVER aware of the illegal activity charged in the indictment.”
According to The Times, Epstein also falsely represented himself as a talent scout for Victoria’s Secret, then used that identity to meet women whom he assaulted.
L Brands’ stock price has dropped as the Epstein scandal has unfolded.
There is So much more, but even I can feel that this is getting Long. Will be back with a part 2 and will connect it in when done!
More info for now,
He created a fantasy world, and plenty of teens wanted to be part of it. For a decade straight, Abercrombie’s profit increased every year as it expanded to 600 stores. During the 2001 recession, Abercrombie’s sales started slowing, but Jeffries didn’t lower prices. He often waded into controversy. Abercrombie stocked T-shirts that said, “Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White.” After Asian American students organized a boycott in 2002, the company pulled the shirts from its shelves. A month later, it introduced thongs for preteen girls printed with “Eye Candy” and “Wink Wink.” Parents protested, and Abercrombie stopped selling those as well.
At the end of 2002, an analyst asked Jeffries if the chain’s tight shirts and low-riding jeans might be unnecessarily excluding some teens from shopping there. “Does it exclude people? Absolutely. We are the cool brand,” Jeffries replied.
“There was a brand filter that said everything needed to be cute and sexy,” says Durando. “It didn’t matter that we were becoming more narrow in terms of who was able to wear our clothes.”
In the autumn of 2004, Jeffries introduced Ruehl No.925, a line of clothes for men and women in their mid- to late 20s. He described potential customers as having graduated from college in Indiana and moved to New York City. The Ruehl stores—located in malls—had real brick facades, wrought-iron fences, and antiqued windows to suggest a Greenwich Village town house owned by the fictitious Ruehl family. Ruehl was the only brand in the A&F portfolio allowed to sell black clothes. “He had such high standards. It was inspiring,” says Durando, who led the women’s design team for Ruehl.
Senior executives came and went, none able to exert any influence over Jeffries. If they had ideas different from his, it didn’t turn out well, says a former executive who worked on the business side. Jeffries talked of retiring one day but pushed out potential successors. The board of directors, composed mostly of local businesspeople, deferred to him in this matter, and most others.
It looks like there were spin off's and over the top expenses.
Abercrombie’s same-store sales dropped 13 percent in 2008 and 23 percent in 2009, and though the company remained profitable, signs began to emerge that Jeffries’s personality might overwhelm the business, especially if it wasn’t growing. In 2010 the board limited his use of the company’s Gulfstream G550 to $200,000 annually, although it also gave him a $4 million travel stipend.
In 2010, Michael Bustin, 53, a pilot who flew the Abercrombie plane, filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the company. Abercrombie’s general counsel said the suit was without merit. The complaint included a 40-page “Aircraft Standards” manual. As Bustin put it in his deposition, “Every single aspect that you can imagine that affected the airplane or our behavior in it was controlled by Abercrombie & Fitch, specifically, Michael Jeffries and Matthew Smith.” The four male crew members (models provided to Abercrombie) had to wear jeans, boxers, polo shirts, and flip-flops. The manual specified the seating arrangements for Jeffries’s three dogs, the length of the spoon Smith required for his tea, and the proper way to respond to requests (“No problem”), fold washcloths, vacuum, dust, and present magazines. When Jeffries was called to give a second deposition in the winter of 2012, Abercrombie settled the case without admitting wrongdoing. The details weren’t made public.
In August 2014 a pension fund in Florida claimed the board breached its fiduciary duties by overpaying Jeffries and noted his partner was allowed to act like an executive. Lawyers obtained internal documents that showed Smith, who had no official role at Abercrombie, had made 170 unannounced visits to stores from August 2011 to November 2013, “providing reports on stores’ appearance, staffs, and atmosphere,” according to the complaint. He had a “direct role” in assessing store openings and closings outside the U.S. On the jet, he received sales reports. (Smith couldn’t be reached for comment.) Earlier this month, the company settled without admitting wrongdoing.
In the spring of 2013, Lewis, the retail expert, noted that the A&F brand didn’t carry large sizes because Jeffries wanted only thin, beautiful people to shop there. Comments to that effect he made in 2006 went viral. That caused new outrage. Soon people were spoofing A&F’s ads and protesting its standards. This time potential customers were complaining, not their parents. Jeffries issued an apology on Facebook.
approved every piece of clothing and for a while every employee, too, including the clone army of beautiful young men who stood shirtless at store entrances. He instructed staff on how to present themselves, down to the length of their fingernails. He obsessed over the publication of catalogs filled with cavorting boys and girls that many called pornographic. For years it was sold sealed in plastic, and one had to be 18 years old to buy it. He had built an empire of cool based on preppy, well-made, expensive clothes, worn low and tight.
Jeffries, who is 70, tried to keep up appearances. He lifted weights, barefoot, in the company gym most mornings. He dyed his hair blond and regularly visited his plastic surgeon, according to former executives who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He wore torn Abercrombie jeans and flip-flops around the woodsy campus outside of Columbus, Ohio, though he used to put on his lucky Tod’s loafers to review the numbers every day.
2014 wasn’t looking good, either. Profits were expected to be about $106 million, less than half of what they had been in 2012. Jeffries’s pay had been cut by about 70 percent, he had lost his position as chairman of the board, and his employment contract was expiring in February 2015.
On Monday, Dec. 8, Jeffries didn’t arrive at work in his black Range Rover. He never showed up. Early the next morning, Arthur Martinez, the former CEO of Sears and the chairman of the Abercrombie board since early 2014, called the senior executives into a meeting. He told them that Jeffries was leaving and the company was looking for a new chief executive.
Abercrombie released an awkward final comment from Jeffries.
Robin Lewis, a retail consultant who’s observed Jeffries for years, says Jeffries couldn’t make significant changes to Abercrombie. “Mike indelibly linked his entire persona, his soul, to this brand’s image. He even tried to make himself look like his customers. He used to run around in ripped jeans and a T-shirt. He had plastic surgery,” says Lewis. “For him to change the brand would have taken the greatest psychologist in the world.”
Stated by Jeffried,
“Does it exclude people? Absolutely. We are the cool brand.”
Apparently it Did include children who were being preyed upon though!
Sources,
https://media.thinknum.com/articles/abercrombie-and-fitch-hollister-history-relevancy-crisis/
https://www.forbes.com/profile/les-wexner/#5dc27ae66808
https://thesocietyforgentlemenexplorers.com/2019/10/the-secret-history-of-abercrombie-fitch/
https://freepress.org/article/wexner-war
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-aging-of-abercrombie-fitch-i58ltcqx
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-aging-of-abercrombie-fitch-i58ltcqx
This is taken from the following FB post featuring #TomMacDonald 's latest song Names
https://www.facebook.com/melissa.mcgarity.14/posts/pfbid02L27QLjmbNotAkMRNyygKqV7oeSwp76zsWwYMDcdXQQDJtnhUrc1WGkpZLXoDtYgRl?comment_id=6017418351607293¬if_id=1657941352965654¬if_t=feed_comment&ref=notif
When I dropped this one a couple years ago, I figured it wouldn't bode well with some, but he is putting it all in people's face who pretend these discrepancies are not there.
Not to mention, when the false righteous people act as if people can't talk about it. ..provides cloak and cover for this predatory evil to not only exist, but to Persist and even flourish.
Same kind of people allowed by not working together on ending the predatory curriculum we all told them about in schools. They were just fine as they didn't see it affecting them directly and in some cases "Not their kids", but oh how it actually did affect many[ripple effect].
Far too many didn't stand up and say these places perpetuating women being valued as objects rather than for their spirit. . .some went at it full force with the me too movement.
Now we all agree people should not be sexually harassed, but WHAT an exposure of dichotomy when these people are fine with malls that had sexual ads displayed where families were walking around, marketed porn style magazines to children as they did from Abercrombie and Fitch [I knew many so called "christian" families who purchased that clothing or name brand for their children so they could be part of the "In" crowd].
The #EpsteinDidntKillHimself connection lies smack in the middle of all of this as the owner of #VictoriasSecret and #AbercrombieAndFitch was #LeslieWexner who sold #Epstein his #ManhattanMansion for a song!
Anyhow. . .this Tom MacDonald song shines a Very Bright light on all of the Mixed messages not just society, but the most vulnerable in our society are sent. For example, parents sit their children in pews and hob knob with other "devout" people virtue signaling their allegiance to these said churches [many of which are weak sadly] while they were on the other side of the coin straddling the fence and supporting the very lifestyle which promoted these "sexualizing children" images from the Leslie owned chains they purchased clothing and supplies for their children in order to help their children fit in or feel superior. Sick and sad. Then parents complained when their children grew up and adopted the agenda's programming or lifestyles and were even Embarrassed in front of their "Evangelical Friends" who by speak were Against that agenda, yet were generally dipping their toes in the con and temptations themselves. #ThesePeopleAre. . .You know! Here's that Tom MacDonald song that those Very Same people will turn their noses up to, likely because it Exposes them and their blatant #hypocrisy that they continue to try to justify. There is NO justification. They should Own it and turn a new page! #Repent as you can't Change what you don't acknowledge! For #TheDayOfTheLordIsAtHand!
I love how it also exposes their other con and double talk that some of these self proclaimed "evangelicals" ride the fence on when their kids end up straddling the fence or justifying baby murder.
Some people can't handle this self produced artist who flicked off the corporate owned slimy music industry and does everything on his own down to. .. signing and shipping his own cd's and merch.
Isn't this just Spot On! A lot of parents called foul when their kids fed into the agenda, but not enough of them Stood up against it and even purchased their clothing from Abercrombie and Fitch along with other places owned by Leslie Wexner [Sold Epstein's Manhattan Mansion to him for a song] then they can't figure out why their kids have fallen for the sickness of these wicked agendas. Hmmm. . .
This song Also points out their murder con of the other placed under a False Virtue Signaling pretense of women's rights. Sick. I put to you What about the Dad's rights? How selfish for these females to think their life usurps that of the most tiny and innocent. Downright Gross and Narcissistic!
Too many afraid to call it what it is because they don't want to OFFEND! Thank you to call who call evil and murder what it is EVIL! I'll drop an article in a reply to this one that shows the garbage they were putting out for children and an article that shows what they were putting in the curriculum in schools to teach children. But I warn you get a bucket and then keep Praising God for the parents who are banning together and Finally standing up against this! Hope this doesn't offend anyone. . .but I guess that worry is Exactly what got us where we are today so here goes as I know it won't offed the Awake, Warriors and those sworn to protect the children and babies as Guardians. . .
Hear this former super model talk about the grooming and sexual assault at Victoria's Secret.
Told to take cocaine and have lots of S*x to lose weight.
Body shaming and abuse reigned.