We then get into the scandals that are behind the business that sold openly homoerotic imagery to their desired heteronormative audience, while packaging 'all-American, classic' clothes under the definition of explicit whiteness. There was the tyrannical behavior from disgraced CEO Mike Jeffries, who we learn at the beginning refused to comment on the film. The opening music cue of the guitar riff of Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” sling shots you back to the mall, a location the doc then tries to ruminate on briefly (too briefly) with movie clips (a free-for-all that includes “ Mean Girls” and “Observe and Report”).
At its best, “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” offers a potent mix of nostalgia and schadenfreude.
