"It alleged that Mr. Hilfiger, while sitting on Oprah Winfrey’s couch, had confirmed hearsay that he was against Asians and African-Americans wearing his clothes. Ms. Winfrey then, it was said, kicked him off the set."

Only a fool would have believed the rumors in the first place. Were it not for the patronage of blacks, Hilfiger would have been living over a deli on Staten Island, and he knew it. He may a remarkably derivative designer as well as a curiously ugly man, but he certainly isn't stupid. The suggestion that he would go on national television and castigate his only viable market is so absurd and ridiculous as to find credibility only among that demographic.