Bonafide Icon NYC Busts onto the Scene with their Controversial T-shirts

These days, it seems like everyone loves (or loves to hate) clothing that sends a controversial message. The Bonafide Icon NYC Exploitedcontroversy generates buzz for the clothing company, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. French Connection UK anyone? A quick google search for “french connection uk controversy” yields almost 2 million results. When we here at Jetcomx stumbled across Bonafide Icon, we quickly noticed that one of their shirts was banned from KarmaLoop. I had to find out why. It turns out that KarmaLoop felt like the shirt, aptly named “Exploited”, was degrading to women and too provocative. But, this was not actually the case. On their website, Bonafide Icon stated that,

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