Episode 2: Carte Blanche

Evil By Design

CBC

True Crime

4.8 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Who is Peter Nygard? The son of Finnish immigrants to Canada, he rose to become boss of an eponymous fashion label that once boasted hundreds of stores around the world. Nygard’s success gave him the means to move to the Bahamas and build a fantastical resort estate, which he also named after himself. But it was Nygard’s limitless ambitions for this property that would eventually see him forced out of the country… setting the stage for the wave of allegations to come. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/evil-by-design-transcripts-listen-1.5886427

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1:02.0	Now the man of the hour, please, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Peter J. Nygaard. Peter Nygaard walks onto a stage flanked by a troop of models.
1:06.0	Blue and white dresses flow out behind them.
1:08.0	Fireworks explode on a gigantic video screen. And blasts of smoke shoot up as Nygaard walks
1:14.3	by.
1:15.6	The auditorium glows electric blue, his signature color.
1:20.5	It's late summer 2018, and Peter Nygaard is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his
1:26.0	international clothing empire.
1:29.5	By this time, he has hundreds of stores and distributors, a headquarters in New York's Times Square,
1:35.7	more than 1,500 employees, and more than $200 million in annual sales.
1:41.9	But his clothes, they were never high fashion.
1:45.3	Nygaard stores were found mostly in suburban strip malls.
1:48.7	Or you could buy his clothes at Dillards, Costco, or Walmart.
1:53.1	They were accessible, reasonably priced, comfortable.
1:58.2	You may never have heard of Nygaard or shopped there yourself, but chances are you know someone who has.
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