Last August, Spanish clothing chain Zara went into damage control mode after selling a children’s shirt with a yellow star embellishment that drew comparisons to a Holocaust concentration camp uniform.
Parent company Inditex , one of the world’s largest fashion retailers, pulled the top from its shelves and issued an apology — but not before a public outcry. After all, it wasn’t Zara’s first time coming under scrutiny for insensitive imagery on its clothing. In 2007, the company withdrew a handbag that contained swastikas as a design element.
Now, a former in-house counsel for Zara claims the cheap-chic giant’s corporate culture is as anti-Semitic as these incidents would suggest.
On Wednesday, lawyers for Ian Jack Miller, the first and only corporate attorney for Zara’s U.S. and Canada business, filed a $40 million discrimination suit in New York’s Supreme Court alleging he was fired because he’s Jewish, American and gay.
