Prada Trims Fat, Gets Sued

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Have you checked in on the SoHo Prada employees lately? Word is that some higher ups at the company don't want any old, fat or ugly people working for them (sound familiar?). The Daily News reports that Rina Bovrisse, a senior retail manager at Prada Japan, has filed a lawsuit against CEO Daide Sesia for discrimination and harassment. Bovrisse was not only told that she had to fire 15 staffers who didn't fit the designer label's image, but that she was also to lose weight and get a new hairstyle! Allegedly Sesia is "ashamed of [her] ugliness, so he doesn't want visitors from Italy to see her." Bovrisse is now on involuntary leave from the company.

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By Jen Carlson in News on March 12, 2010 1:32 PM

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dirty hipster

Does anybody still buy Prada? I thought that brand became gauche years ago - like Gucci.

pd2009

They should also have a style bouncer out front of the store, like clubs do...if you don't fit the profile, you can't buy Prada.

Greenpoint60

You can be sure that they have threads for the fat sos that eat two jumbo cookies and a Starbucks coffee with five packs of sugar for breakfast

Greenpoint60

Bingo I went to E bay and found size 12 Prada items, I was right about the jumbo cookies & sugar

Greenpoint60

Wow if she wins all the fat hipsters(there are far too many) will become rich when they get fired, then they will have to take the old folks off Social Security to run the economy

mocanlagunas

That's it! I'm not buying Prada products now...

Eugene

They should totally unionize! That way they wouldn't have to care about silly things like actually meeting specific qualifications for a specific job, or other nonsense like say, taking orders from your boss...