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NP/CP say Lululemon founder pans diversity efforts

2024-01-05 07:05 ET - In the News

The National Post reports in its Friday, Jan. 5, edition that Lululemon athletica founder Chip Wilson is critical of the Vancouver-based apparel company's diversity efforts. A Canadian Press dispatch to the Post reports that in an article published this week by Forbes, Mr. Wilson shares his distaste for Lululemon's "whole diversity and inclusion thing" and says the people the company is using in its ads are "unhealthy," "sickly" and "not inspirational." Mr. Wilson adds that he feels Lululemon is trying to be like the Gap by wanting to be everything to everybody. He thinks the company should be clear it does not want certain customers visiting the business. Lululemon declined to comment on Mr. Wilson's remarks. He previously attracted controversy in 2013, when he told Bloomberg some women's bodies do not work for the company's products after Lululemon pulled some of its yoga pants from shelves over concerns they were too sheer. Mr. Wilson, who started Lululemon in 1998, eventually stepped down from the company and relinquished his board seat but remains a shareholder. Mr. Wilson now spends his time on real estate and private equity investments along with pushing for a cure for a disorder he has been diagnosed with.

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