J. Crew Goes Hollywood, Gets Told to Go Home

Racked is no longer publishing. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.

The catalog that almost wasn't: apparently, the J. Crew folks were minding their own business, shooting the models for the February catalog, right on the Hollywood sign in when all of the sudden, a brigade of angry, shouty firefighters and the flying news circus rained down on them. It turns out, J. Crew had totally done all their permit-procuring by the books, but since the authorities are so used to trespassers, they assumed the models were a bunch of ne'er do wells. The only crime that was committed was those chartreuse shorts for $400. [Curbed]