{"id":26761,"date":"2020-06-15T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=26761"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:21:54","slug":"yael-aflalo-steps-down-as-reformation-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/yael-aflalo-steps-down-as-reformation-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"<Yael Aflalo steps down as Reformation CEO>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-title no-top-margin\">CEO Yael Aflalo has stepped down from her position at Reformation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yael Aflalo, founder, CEO, and former model, has stepped down from her position at Reformation, a Los Angeles brand founded 2009 with an emphasis on sustainable practices and materials, following allegations of racism from past employees that emerged on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/reformation-ceo-yael-aflalo-steps-204943930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo Finance writes<\/a>, started on May 30 when the brand\u2019s Instagram posts and donations to Black Lives Matter generated a tirade of comments and posts about the company\u2019s treatment of Black people. Elle Santiago, a former assistant store manager posted about being overlooked for promotions, and said the company \u201cconsistently hired white women with the same or less qualifications over her.\u201d She also detailed personal interactions with Aflalo, claiming that the founder would not look at her, and that senior managers resisted calls for diversity in the brand\u2019s visuals, saying, \u201cwe\u2019re not ready for that yet.\u201d The post went viral, and was picked up by industry watchdog account DietPrada and other media outlets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am resigning as CEO effective immediately,\u201d<strong> she wrote on the company\u2019s website Friday morning<\/strong>. \u201cIt has been one of the greatest honors of my life to build Reformation alongside such a passionate and talented group of individuals. Reformation has played a pivotal role in transforming our industry to be more sustainable, ethical and honest. I will always be proud of the company we built together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aflalo will be replaced by current president Hali Borenstein. Following her departure, Reformation vowed to update its quarterly sustainability\u00a0report to include goals and metrics on diversity\u00a0and inclusion, as well as to \u201cput more emphasis on working with Black creators throughout the creative process,\u201d and strive to feature more \u201cauthentic diversity\u201d in its imagery and branding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Yael Aflalo has stepped down from her position at  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,3823,3824],"class_list":["post-26761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-reformation","tag-yael-aflalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26766,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions\/26766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}