The American designer Alexander Wang, already implicated on several occasions, is targeted by new accusations of sexual assault from a New York student.
Lisa Bloom, a lawyer specializing in harassment and sexual assault cases, told AFP to represent eleven men claiming to be victims of the designer, confirming information from the
New York Times
.
She said she has not, to date, taken legal action in these cases, but does not rule out the option for all that.
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At the BBC site, Keaton Bullen, a final year student at Parsons design school, relates that the New York designer allegedly seized her sex unsolicited in a nightclub in August 2019. These accusations are not not the first set out against the designer.
Last December, a British model, Owen Mooney, had already accused the designer of touching in a nightclub, facts dating back to January 2017. In early January, another model, trans model Gia Garison, also reported in British daily
The Guardian
, of a similar incident in February 2017.
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The designer then reacted by qualifying these allegations as
"unfounded"
and assured that he
"(would) hold account"
to the people who had, according to him, accused him wrongly.
Contacted by AFP regarding the present Bullen case, the Alexander Wang house did not immediately follow up.
Since the start of the #MeToo era, several fashion personalities have been implicated in sexual harassment or sexual assault.
But so far it has been mainly photographers, like Terry Richardson, Bruce Weber or Mario Testino, who have all been dismissed from the middle following similar accusations.
In June 2018, the co-founder of the ready-to-wear brand Guess, Paul Marciano, also had to resign from his duties as president of the house for acts of the same caliber.
Long the darling of New York Fashion Week, a public figure with boundless energy, Alexander Wang presented his first show at the age of twenty-three.
He is considered one of the pioneers in the integration of sportswear into high-end ready-to-wear.