Ivanka Trump closes the controversial fashion brand

Fashion line Ivanka Trump will soon cease 39; exist. (Source: AP)

The fashion brand Ivanka Trump will soon cease to exist. According to a New York Post report, the company will close "ASAP" and the staff has been informed that they are fired.The retail fashion brand was launched in 2007 with only one line of jewelry, but now includes handbags, shoes, clothing and other accessories.

Since his father, Donald Trump became president of the United States, Ivanka As a senior adviser to the White House, she was criticized for the fact that her The company gets leverage because of its father's position.Although after separating from the company in 2017 in response to these concerns, the controversy broke out again in May, when She has won several brands in China.This happened shortly before the President announced an attempt to overturn the US ban on a Chinese telecom company, ZTE, which would have shut down if the decision had been

In addition, the brand has also faced criticism of the poor working conditions in which its factory workers have to work across Asia. Almost all of its products are manufactured in factories in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China. A Guardian report stated that the brand's employees at a plant in Subang, Indonesia, had one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia and incredibly high production targets and compensated overtime. sporadically were claimed
after union activists investigated possible abuses in a Chinese factory that removed Ivanka Trump shoes from custody. The activists claimed to have discovered major violations on the site, some of which were paid far below the legal minimum wage in China, directors verbally abusing workers and violations of women's rights.

Speaking of the closure of his fashion line said, "When we started this brand, no one could have predicted the success we were going to achieve … After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever go back to business, but I know that my goal in the foreseeable future will be the work I'm doing here in Washington. So, making this decision now is the only fair result for my team and my partners. "

It was recently abandoned by several retailers such as Nordstrom and Canada's largest department store chain, Hudson's Bay, and both companies have accused bad sales of their decision. Street Journal, online sales at Amazon, Macy's and Bloomingdales dropped nearly 45% in June.

That would be a euphemism to say that this is not a nice picture for Trumps , because of the recent criticism, controversy and now of a failing business that seems to drag the family.

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