I never bought her Nasty Gal genesis tale, that she found two Chanel bags in a thrift store for $4 a piece, sold them on eBay for $5,000 each and invested the proceeds to start her eBay retail business. Uh-huh. And I once found a draft of the Declaration of Independence in a thrift store.

Agreed! I think Jezebel’s fascination with nasty gal/amoruso is strange. Does anyone expect a trendy clothing company and its founder to be anything more than a hollow and hypocritical brand? I don’t. Welcome to capitalism kids.

Let me give you the real scoop girl: Chick grew up in El Dorado Hills, which for those unfamiliar is an EXTREMELY wealthy hill town outside of Sacramento. Gated communities, teens driving BMW’s, etc. Sophia’s family is straight up LOADED. She chose to be a slumming it rich kid who dragged her ass all over the bay…

It’s so gross! Part of it is this aggressive cutsey-ing of authority—like, it’s not enough to project your authority; you have to also make it seem hip and fun (or you’re failing as a woman—I mean girl). It plays into this narrative that female leaders can’t just be good at their jobs—they have to be competent AND…

sure! i’ve read about her “story”...being broke af and building a (formerly) successful clothing empire. i also thought her style (tats, etc.) was cool and edgy, and i loved the clothes! (this was back when i was in my early-mid 20s and actually wore shit like that).

I’m just wondering why she’s still doing this #girlboss self-promotion nonsense (who the fuck’s gonna buy that book?) now that we know she’s a shitty boss and Nasty Gal has one foot in the grave. Isn’t she worth like $200 million? Chick never needs to work again in her life. Go to college or something, Sophia.

Textbook example of if you don’t make your company a place where people want to work, they will not stay and your company is going to seriously suffer from it. You’ve got a lot of talented people who now, in this post-recession economy, actually have options. And if I am looking to switch jobs at a fashion startup,…

At this point, it’s obvious that Nasty Gal only exists as a pedestal upon which Sophia rests her brand.

Yes. See, also: Movie directors. Politicians.

The “girlboss” thing makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I see it.

There seems to be some weird thing where a very small, extraordinarily highly paid “high-level management” caste has emerged. There aren’t that many of them, it’s unclear how people enter the caste, but the business world feels these are the only people who are qualified to be a CEO. And there are very few of them, so…

Sorry, former ModClother here. Most of the clothing sold there comes from China and they’ve been undergoing massive layoffs in the past 2 years. A friend of mine who had been there for About 5+ years was laid off because they cut the entire Pittsburgh social team.

Girl boss is worse than moist for me.

i’m so ashamed that i ever worshiped sophia and nasty gal.

Sheree Waterson, formerly of Lululemon, who several former employees have told Jezebel is, in their opinion, the cause of much of the dysfunction and tension at the office.

Nasty Gal ceased to be a profitable company when Amoruso started believing her own hype and turned it into a self-promotion machine. She’s probably bored with the clothes aspect at this point and it looking to dump the place so she can focus full time on whatever the hell her personal brand is about.

Amoruso probably should have sold it earlier, when it was doing well and she was starting up the self-perpetuating self-promotion publicity cycle for #GirlBoss.

This line so fucking tired. Portlandia makes fun of uppity people, people who take themselves too seriously, and people who are too dumb to advance the ideas they want to advance.

Every once in a while my parents run into other older white people that like to confide in them how x place is getting too ‘ethnic’ and they’re planning on moving somewhere more homogenious. I really, really wish they’d start moving to Portland and get into fights with the granola-types out there.

“not the independent bookstore that said they lost money agreeing to being used as a set”