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Urban Outfitters is a clothing Retail store with more than 140 shops in the United States , Canada , Ireland and the United Kingdom . Urban Outfitters also runs Anthropologie and Free People . The first store opened in 1970 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The original store focused on "funky" fashion in its clothes and household products. Today, the Urban Outfitters fashion line features the same tone, with Vintage , Bohemian , Retro , Ironically Humorous , Kitschy , and oddly designed apparel and furniture comprising the seasonal catalogues. The store also retails high profile and often expensive brands such as Nike , PUMA , Diesel , The North Face , Ben Sherman , Original Penguin , Fred Perry , Lacoste , among others. CONTROVERSIES The president of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne , became Controversial in early 2004 when the company Advertised t-shirts bearing the slogan " Voting is for Old People". During the media hubbub that followed, Journalists revealed that Hayne had contributed over $10,000 to Republican Senator Rick Santorum . At one time, the store sold a Magnet set depicting a Crucified Jesus Christ that one could dress up and put various phrases on. This item was later pulled after a Public backlash. However, the chain has not backed down from selling T-shirts of all stripes that are generally aimed at mocking various social Stereotypes and Prejudices , not by contradicting them, but by humorously playing them up. The most notable example is their shirt with the phrase "Everyone Loves a Jewish Girl" sorrounded by Money signs, and their shirt with the phrase " Jesus is My Homeboy ". Both have been taken up in Popular Culture by the groups they were "defaming" and become wildely Popular , so much so that they have attained statuses of Cultural Icons among American Teenagers . On Saint Patrick's Day in 2006 they began selling shirts that read, "Erin Go Fuck Yourself", a parody of the Irish phrase "Erin Go Bragh". The Anti-Defamation League has repeatedly condemned them. {Link without Title} The store has also stolen shirt designs created by small, Independent Clothing lines; namely, Johnny Cupcakes and Crown Farmer . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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