AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - CFDA chief Steven Kolb resigns after video captures him restraining PETA protesters at runway show
Steven Kolb, the two-decade leader of the fashion industry's most powerful trade group, stepped down Friday after footage showed him physically silencing animal-rights protesters at a New York runway event, a confrontation that cost him his career in under a week. Kolb, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, announced his […] The post CFDA chief Steven Kolb resigns after video captures him restraining PETA protesters at runway show appeared first on American Almanac .
Steven Kolb, the two-decade leader of the fashion industry's most powerful trade group, stepped down Friday after footage showed him physically silencing animal-rights protesters at a New York runway event, a confrontation that cost him his career in under a week. Kolb, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, announced his resignation days after he was filmed covering the mouths of two PETA employees and using his body to restrain them during a show for Cos, the H&M-owned brand. The incident unfolded on Sunday. By Friday, the man who had shaped American fashion's institutional identity for twenty years was out. The speed of his fall tells its own story. Kolb apologized earlier in the week, then took a leave of…Open