Lately Versace stores is being using short codes amongst them to address black customers.
A former Versace employee suing the luxury retailer for alleged racial discrimination, claims the Italian fashion house uses a code to alert staff and security when a black customer is in the store.
Apparently, when the new employee was told about the code – known as a “D410”, incidentally the label’s code for a black shirt – he allegedly told his manager that he was African-American. After the revelation, the man claims to have been refused rest breaks and was then fired two weeks later. In the suit, he says he was told he lost his job because he hadn’t “lived the luxury life.
