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   https://fortune.com/2024/01/03/lululemons-founder-chip-wilson-diversity-   
   and-inclusion/   
      
   While many CEOs are shouting about their increased efforts to ramp up   
   diversity across their business one founder is promoting the exact   
   opposite.   
      
   Lululemon’s billionaire founder Chip Wilson insists that exclusivity   
   trumps inclusivity while blasting the posh leggings company he stepped   
   down from 10 years ago.   
      
   “They’re trying to become like the Gap, everything to everybody,” Wilson,   
   who has an estimated net worth of $8.7 billion, said in an interview with   
   Forbes.   
      
   “And I think the definition of a brand is that you’re not everything to   
   everybody… You’ve got to be clear that you don’t want certain customers   
   coming in.”   
      
   Still, the activewear giant is clearly onto something: Wilson has added   
   almost $4 billion to his net worth since 2020, nearly all because of the   
   rise in value of his 8% stake in Lululemon stock.   
      
   Chip Wilson’s controversial comments aren’t a first   
   It’s not the first time Wilson has expressed his disdain for his   
   brainchild’s “whole diversity and inclusion thing”, having repeatedly   
   faced backlash for anti-Asian, sexist, and fatphobic comments.   
      
   The American-Canadia entrepreneur most infamously insisted that the   
   company’s most popular product, its leggings, are not for everyone—or more   
   specifically, plus-size women—when they came under fire for being see-   
   through.   
      
   “They don’t work for some women’s bodies,” he told Bloomberg Television’s   
   Street Smart in 2013, before stepping down as the firm’s CEO and then   
   leaving the board entirely in 2015.   
      
   Wilson previously declared that when founding Lululemon back in 1998, he   
   specifically came up with a brand name that has three L’s because the   
   sound does not exist in Japanese phonetics.   
      
   “It’s funny to watch them try and say it,” he told Canada’s National Post   
   Business Magazine.   
      
   He has also spoken in favor of children working in factories to earn money   
   and avoid poverty, blamed birth control for rising divorce rates, and   
   described plus-size clothing as “a money loser” for businesses.   
      
   In a statement provided to Fortune, a Lululemon company spokesperson said   
   that Chip Wilson “does not speak for lululemon, and his comments do not   
   reflect our company views or beliefs. Chip has not been involved with the   
   company since his resignation from the board in 2015 and we are a very   
   different company today.”   
      
   A double standard   
   Since Wilson’s departure, Lululemon has been trying to shake off the idea   
   that it’s exclusively for upper-middle-class white women of a certain   
   stature through inclusive marketing and by bolstering its diversity and   
   inclusion commitments.   
      
   But such efforts have often been labeled tokenistic by celebrities,   
   consumers, and staff members alike.   
      
   In November 2020, the Canadian-headquartered international company formed   
   a new department named Inclusion Diversity, Equity, and Action, known   
   internally as IDEA, which was tasked with increasing the diversity of   
   staff and expanding DEI training, development and discourse.   
      
   However, over a dozen employees at the firm told the Business of Fashion   
   it was launched to protect the company’s image first and foremost and that   
   the company often denied Black employees job opportunities in favor of   
   “less-qualified white counterparts.”   
      
   In its statement to BoF, Lululemon said it “has made considerable progress   
   since launching IDEA, and we are proud of the goals we have achieved,   
   which include maintaining a continuous two-way dialogue with our people.”   
      
   At around the same time, it came under fire for promoting a yoga workshop   
   billed as an opportunity to “resist capitalism.”   
      
   The class promised to teach participants how “gender constructs across the   
   world have informed culture and the ways violent colonialism has erased   
   these histories to enforce consumerism.”   
      
   However, at around $120 for a pair of leggings, many were quick to point   
   out the brand’s hypocrisy.   
      
   “Lululemon IS capitalism. It is literally a privately-owned corporation   
   that raked in half a billion dollars in pure profits last year, merely by   
   selling overpriced yoga pants to women willing and able to pay for this   
   luxury,” a popular post on the matter on X, formerly known as Twitter,   
   read.   
      
   “WHY are you pushing an anti-capitalist Marxist workshop when you ONLY   
   exist because of capitalism?” another decried.   
      
   Lululemon is “committed to creating and fostering an inclusive, diverse,   
   and welcoming environment throughout our organization and across our   
   communities,” the company spokesperson told Fortune, adding that that it   
   is proud of the goals achieved and progress made since launching its   
   Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action (IDEA) function. “We also   
   recognize that becoming a more diverse and inclusive organization takes   
   time and is only possible through the sustained efforts of our leaders and   
   our people. We remain steadfast in our commitment to become a more   
   inclusive and diverse company.”   
      
      
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