2010: Abercrombie & Fitch's Quarterly Rises from Ashes
9) Abercrombie & Fitch Brings Back Quarterly after 7 YearsAbercrombie & Fitch, known more for their risque Quarterlies than their clothes, stopped production of their Quarterly in 2003. For the past seven years, the Ohio-based company did not print their highly anticipated periodical of bare-chested men and women. How did we ever survive?
One fortunate outcome of the financial crisis that still plagues the world economy was that the brand brought back the Quarterly to help boost sales on their financial statements. The Quarterly featured some new faces and faces we've seen before, like Arthur Sales, Guy Robinson and Danny Schwarz (who has a short Q&A session inside). The magazine also brought back the man who photographed all the previous Quarterly, Bruce Weber!
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Two additional noteworthy Abercrombie & Fitch stories:
1) Twenty year old Belgian model, Florian Van Bael, has been fired from Abercrombie & Fitch's latest Quarterly shoot due out in a few months. Why? Huffington Post reports that he was fired because Florian snacked on a croissant at a time that wasn't deemed appropriate by Abercrombie & Fitch. Talk about suffering for your art!
2) On October 29, 2010, a teen organization called "Students Turning Green" protested outside Abercrombie & Fitch stores in opposition of the store's "toxic" smell since they spray their popular mens fragrance, "Fierce" on every piece of clothing.
