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Although the rumors apparently have been circulating on the Internet since November, the company only recently responded. Hilfiger wants his clothing to be enjoyed by people of all backgrounds and his collections are put together with the broadest cross-section of individuals in mind.

To reinforce this, he features models of all ethnic backgrounds in his fashion shows and advertisements. Then, as the story morphed, he told Winfrey the same thing about African Americans, at which point she threw him off the set.

Similar stories have plagued designer Liz Claiborne for some eight years. She, too, supposedly stated her whites-only preference to Winfrey. And that rumor, circulated by word-of-mouth, had such legs that film director Spike Lee denounced the designer in a Esquire interview.

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The American designer was ready to hit the spin-ground running, ready to squash the hurtful rumor dead in its tracks. But not so fast, PR had a different plan — no plan. If you address it, you are going to make it worse. Hilfiger willfully admits that the rumor and calls for a boycott did impact his bottom line, but not so much that it ruined the company.

A decade following the now-urban legend, Hilfiger eventually did appear on Oprah in Interestingly enough, it was the daytime talk show queen who pitched the idea of having the designer debunk the rumor on her show.

The two first met while Hilfiger was raising money for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.