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Designer Tweets Egyptian Riots Due to His New Line Coming Out

Posted by samzenpus on from the foot-in-mouth dept.

Famous shoe designer Kenneth Cole stuck his fabulously shod foot into his mouth by tweeting, "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online..." After an uproar from people who don't think revolution jokes are funny, he issued the following tweet: "we weren't intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment."

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  1. The /. crowd is no better by mr100percent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People will always be idiots. If you go back and read the slashdot stories on 9/11/2001 there were morons who were posting "Someone set up us the bomb!"

    I suppose this one is more newsworthy by the fact that he put his real name on it and it's unusually tacky for someone considered so professional.