Urban Outfitters Square Secret
By Michelle at 21 May, 2008, 5:10 pm
Love it for its cheeky, interesting apparel or hate it for its overly hipster gear, we all know about Urban Outfitters. You can walk out of there with a sweet peasant top, skin-tight magenta jeans, the freshest kicks, a few counter-culture books, and an overpriced couch… as long as mummy and daddy are regularly pumping into your trust fund…
But what we didn’t know is that UO’s CEO, Richard Hayne basically has been compared to the conservativeness of Dick Cheney. According to This Is Money, Hayne started the UO in the 1970s, taking it public in 1993, but he still has a controlling share in the company. He doesn’t give interviews because he know he can’t be the perceived face of the company — once people learn that he’s bff with George Bush (meaning he funnels cash to the GOP like it’s no body’s business), they’ll basically abandon the stock and the store.
Shopping in Urban makes you feel like you are somewhere radically Left-wing, an antidote to the corporate blandness of The Gap. But Hayne is a stanch conservative who donates money to Republican politicians, not least Rick Santorum, a now failed Senator whose views on homosexuality are both bizarre and old-fashioned.
{This is Money; scroll down for full story}
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