Designer Kenneth Cole Cracks Twitter Joke About Egyptian Protests, Immediately Scrambles to Apologize

Either Kenneth Cole has some serious egg on his face or the designer now has one less employee in his marketing department this afternoon. Earlier today, Cole tweeted “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at [link to their online shop] -KC” Within the hour, the post got some less-than-positive attention from outlets like Ad Age, who said, “Kenneth Cole and others in the media and marketing industries not only suffer from a lack of tact, they suffer from a lack of historical knowledge and the ability to grasp that the situation in Egypt could get a hell of lot uglier than it is even at this moment.”

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