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Sep 2022
58m 53s

253: White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abe...

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Were you cool enough to wear Abercrombie? Did you wait in line to be granted the opportunity to walk past a shirtless teenaged model into a store with too-loud music and over priced cargo shorts? I KNOW YOU DID BECAUSE WE DID TOO! This doc is one part nostalgia and one part expose about how one of the world's most famous brand thrived on exclusion. 

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