It’s a sad day for Rosie O’Donnell‘s closet. The outspoken comedian has broken up with designer Eileen Fisher after a conversation they had regarding her line.
According to O’Donnell, her favorite designer attended a play that Ro was performing in and got a chance to express her gratitude to Eileen saying:
├óΓé¼┼ôI love you, and you have helped me. You can├óΓé¼Γäót imagine how much stress I had in my life because of clothing but once I found you three years ago everything changed. On behalf of every plus-sized woman in the world, I just want to thank you. And I want to ask you why do you only have the [plus] sizes down in SoHo?”
To which Eileen Fisher responded with “That├óΓé¼Γäós not really our demographic├óΓé¼┬ªyou know, we sell a lot of size two.├óΓé¼┬¥
Rosie tried to confirm that by size 2 Eileen meant plus size 2, but no such luck. The designer answered: ├óΓé¼┼ôNo, the regular size two.”
We’re getting a little Jennifer Love Hewitt d├â┬⌐j├â┬á vu.
When Rosie asked why Eileen doesn’t want to associate with plus-size women she simply said “it’s just not the image that we’re going for.”
Ouch!
That’s unfortunate that a designer wouldn’t want to expand their brand (no pun intended). So now that Rosie has parted ways she will now wear Donna Karan.
Time for the Eileen Fisher camp to start backpedaling!
[Image via WENN.]