Failing retail store Wet Seal has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following speculation of its impending death, multiple store closings and employee protests in recent weeks.
The Wet Seal Employees Who Protested Lay-Offs All Got Fired
Remember those employees who posted a giant protest sign in the window of a Wet Seal in Seattle? They've been fired. So much for activism.
Wet Seal Employees Say Fuck Wet Seal With Giant Sign On Store
Amid news that Wet Seal might soon go bankrupt, one store's employees are rebelling against shitty management. According to this Reddit-posted photo of a sign from a Seattle location, workers are protesting unfair conditions, including missing paychecks.
Wet Seal May Follow Delia's to the Defunct '90s Brand Cemetery
Wet Seal, bastion of shitty club clothes and mall culture, the Forever 21 of our day, may be headed for bankruptcy. If so, we hereby decree that it be buried next to the tomb of Delia's.
Wet Seal's Attempt to Be a Better Version of Itself Isn't Paying Off
Has Wet Seal, the store you likely shopped at in middle school and then forgot about, become a secretly legit company? Or is it just another clothing monstrosity with a mixed history?
Wet Seal Continues to Flounder, Fires CEO
In what seems like a desperate move to switch things up in the midst of a racial discrimination lawsuit and plummeting finances, Wet Seal has fired its relatively new CEO without a replacement in mind. But is the company worth saving at all?
Federal Lawsuit Alleges that Wet Seal Had a Shitty Policy of ‘Top-Down’ Racial Discrimination
If you were once a teenager and a girl, simultaneously, and, during that awkward/carefree/angst-ridden confluence of age and sex, often took constitutionals around your local concrete-octopus of a mall, odds are you're familiar with the retailer Wet Seal. What you may not know, however, is that, according to a new…
Ladies, Tom Ford Would Do You Too
- Artist John Currin interviewed Tom Ford, and joked that sometimes innocent statements are "The small acorn that will grow into a great oak of a scandal later." Well! Ford then claimed, "I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist."
Christy Turlington Hated The Catwalk
- Christy Turlington says, "There's nothing rewarding about modeling. It was a fun opportunity that allowed me to see the world but spiritually and intellectually there is nothing rewarding about the profession at all."
Claire Danes Shills For Weird Lash Product; Christian Siriano Returns To Bravo
- Claire Danes and her spooky, enhanced spiderleg eyelashes will soon be staring down at you from ads for Latisse, the eyelash-growing goop that has this totally minor side effect where sometimes it permanently changes a user's eye color. [AOL]
Astronauts Suit Up For Vuitton; The Kaiser Actually Hates Swans
- One of Annie Leibovitz's Louis Vuitton ads with astronauts Sally Ride, Buzz Aldrin, and Jim Lovell is out. (Gorby was busy that weekend.) [WWD]
- Karl Lagerfeld: "Ballet is an extraordinary art: this torture of the body to make something so graceful. All this hard work, to look effortless."
Ashlee Simpson To Join Forces With The Ashlee Simpson Of Mall Retailers
- As celebrity-commodity tie-ups go, it makes a certain kind of sense that Ashlee Simpson would shill for Wet Seal. Wet Seal is sort of the quintessential hollow youth retailer, possessing nary the layers of rigorous protocol and manufactured snobbery of Abercrombie & Fitch nor the countercultural "heritage" of Urban…
Paris Hilton Must Be Stopped
- We are Nietzsche and God is dead: Paris Hilton's stint in jail saw her fragrance sales rise 30% higher than where they were at this time last year. [WWD, sub req'd]
- The biggest conflict in the Middle East right now? Crocs. Price-fixing. The Holy Land. Is nothing sacred there? [WWD, sub req'd]
- Daisy Fuentes: A sweatshop…
