The early days! Plenty of celebrities dabbled in modeling before making it big — and a shocking number of them worked for Abercrombie & Fitch.The sportswear brand found itself back in the spotlight after the April 2022 release of Netflix’s documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, which explores what happened after Michael Jeffries became the company’s CEO in 1992.
The businessman stepped down in 2014 amid declining sales and accusations of racism within the company, but the many photos of pre-fame stars modeling for the brand live on.“I was actually one of the guys in the catalog,” Channing Tatum told Interview magazine in April 2009, noting that he was not one of the shirtless guys who stood outside the store. “I had to put on a chicken suit at one point.
I was like a mascot. We were in a locker room, and there were a bunch of dudes with abs all the way down to their … whatever the hell — their perineums?
And then I was in the chicken suit standing next to them.”Jennifer Lawrence, for her part, participated in a football-themed photo shoot before she became an Oscar-winning actress.
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