Ikea Removes Lesbians From Its Russian Catalog
The unfortunate birthplace of your entire bedroom set, Ikea, has removed a feature about a lesbian couple from the Russian edition of its magazine. Sound familiar
Ikea's Moose Meat Lasagna Joins the Club of Meat that's Contaminated…
Ikea. Girl. I think it's time that we had a talk about how you keep making one kind of meat out of a completely different kind of meat. First, we found out that you kept making your Swedish meatballs out of horse and now it turns out that your moose meat lasagna is mixed up with pork. Now, as has been previously…
Your Favorite Food (This Time, IKEA Meatballs) Is Probably Made of…
You may think that you'd never eat horse meat, but the truth is that you love it and can't get enough of it. "More horse meat," your brain and tummy cry whenever you get hungry or just want a snack because, as it turns out, horse meat is in everything. Hamburgers? Horse meat! Ravioli? Horse meat. Water? Super thin, wet…
Ikea Monkey's Name Is Darwin, He's Now Living Happily at a Sanctuary
This past Sunday, a seven-month-old rhesus macaque, wearing a solitary Ugg boot as a jacket, was found wandering an Ikea parking lot in Toronto
This ingenious Saudi Arabian IKEA-inspired Tumblr replaces famous women — like Anne Frank — with furniture.
IKEA Photoshops Women Out of Its Saudi Arabia Catalog
People in the U.S. and 41 other countries around the globe scour IKEA catalogs to find the exact same cheap, simple furniture with hard-to-pronounce Swedish names, but the company's Saudi Arabian customers have a different shopping experience: there are no women to be found amongst the images of Grundtal shelves and…
Did IKEA Once Use East German Political Prisoners to Make Its Sofas?
The thought of IKEA brings up complex emotions in many of us. On the one hand, their furniture is affordable and reasonably attractive, and always seems to fit that spot where you need a shelf. On the other hand, wandering aimlessly through their giant stores is a special kind of retail hell, their furniture tends to…
What Is IKEA Doing Spying on Its Employees and Angry Customers?
IKEA seems so friendly and efficient and non-threatening—unless you consider taking over the décor of houses worldwide to be aesthetically threatening—but it seems there might be a darker side to everyone's go-to furniture retailer. The Swedish company is being investigated in France for hiring private detectives to…
Soon You Will Buy Your House From IKEA
For many of us, it already feels like the entire inside of our house is decorated with things from IKEA, so wouldn't it be convenient if you could take the next step and just buy an entire prefab house from IKEA? Well, soon that dream will be a reality. They've collaborated with Ideabox, an architectural firm, to…
Old People Go Looking For Love At Shanghai's IKEA
If you think of IKEA only as a place to get lost and then end up spending way more money than you meant to, you should start thinking outside of the flat-pack cardboard box. That's what senior citizens in Shanghai are doing, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, they've managed to turn their local IKEA into a hot …
Worth It: You Have To Sit On Something
Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily…
You Can't Shop Anywhere
The founder of IKEA — which once seemed like the most wholesome of all multinational companies — was apparently a Nazi. At this point, basically every retail chain is tainted with some sort of scandal. Here's a helpful guide.
Berlusconi's Newspaper Hates Gay-Themed Ikea Ad
The Italian newspaper Il Giornale, owned by Silvio Berlusconi, has taken exception to an Ikea ad depicting a gay couple. An editorial asked, "What's behind all this? It's not awareness of gay rights for gay couples. It's just a brazen marketing strategy." Also, according to the Daily Mail,
Naomi Campbell Returns To Court, Her Home Away From Home
- Naomi Campbell's lawsuit with ex-agent Carol White is still rumbling. White, who claims Campbell stiffed her on royalties for a perfume called "Naomi Campbell Cat Deluxe With Kisses," says she has evidence that Campbell's lawyer and manager perjured themselves. [WWD]
January Jones Goes Nude For Versace
- January Jones' reward for holding up the spring Versace show by over an hour is apparently...the brand's spring campaign. Says Donatella Versace, "In January I feel I have found a perfect Versace woman for the 21st century." [WWD]
Ikea Lets You Hide Your Bisexuality In The Cupboard
We're not sure what makes this Austrian Ikea commercial less likely to air in the US: the fact that it gleefully depicts infidelity, or its suggestion that male bisexuality exists.
Video: IKEA Lets 100 Cats Roam Through Store
To film a commercial, IKEA released 100 cats in its Wembley, England store after hours. Shoppers were "unaware that half an hour before, 100 felines were roaming free in the shop" ...until they found a hairball in their new bedspread.
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[Sydney, January 31. Image via Getty]
Though assembling furniture is stereotypically a man's job, according to Ikea's German chief, Petra Hesser, women are actually better at putting together the company's flat-pack furniture. "Men never look at the directions and have the most problems with construction because they always think they can do that," said…
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Giorgio Armani: Not Just Chic, But Fluent In Yiddish
British Vogue reports that seemingly-immortal fashion designer Giorgio Armani is reluctant to partner up on a line with H&M because doing so communicates a message to the shopper that the product is low-brow and no good. And this, in turn, makes the consumers "feel like schmucks."