The Abercrombie Guys: The Trailer
World of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
An aspiring male model hopes a meeting with Abercrombie and Fitch’s former CEO could be a career break. But it's far from a dream opportunity - revealing fashion’s dark side.
This is World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys, an investigation from BBC 5 Live and Panorama.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes it only takes one person to speak for others to be heard. |
| 0:08.0 | Just thought modeling was going to be to take it into a world that was going to be glamorous. This is the story of one of |
| 0:15.3 | fashions dark secrets. That world has eaten up and spit out a lot of young and |
| 0:21.2 | attractive guys. |
| 0:22.6 | I was overwhelmed, like I never seen anything like this. |
| 0:26.0 | A story about to be brought to light by people who have never spoken before. |
| 0:31.0 | And I realize I'm dropping a very big bombshell on you at the moment. |
| 0:35.0 | At the height of Abercrombie and Fitzgerald's success was something darker. |
| 0:40.0 | This was me being carefully manipulated. |
| 0:43.0 | There's nobody that walked into that without their eyes wide open. |
| 0:48.0 | Nobody. |
| 0:49.0 | After the Me Too movement left Hollywood reeling, |
| 0:52.0 | women in the fashion world have been sharing |
| 0:54.4 | their experiences. Young men also sharing stories. Being lied too, tricked, and |
| 1:01.0 | traded like a commodity. |
| 1:02.5 | Investigating allegations that would take me into a world of money, sex and power. |
| 1:08.5 | NDAs are the work of the powerful to control the vulnerable. |
| 1:13.0 | An investigation from BBC Radio 5 Live and Panorama. |
| 1:18.0 | This is World of Secrets. |
| 1:20.0 | Season 1, The Abercrombie Guys, with me, |
| 1:23.6 | Rianna Croxford. |
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