Lululemon sacks employee over China T-shirt uproar
Sportswear maker Lululemon has apologised after one of its employees posted a T-shirt design on social media that caused outrage in China.The firm said the design, seen as a racist reference to coronavirus, was not one of its products and the employee had been dismissed.The design, which depicted a takeaway box of "bat fried rice", had prompted calls for a boycott of the brand.Bogus claims the virus was spread by people eating bats have swept the web.Lululemon said the design was "inappropriate and inexcusable".'Insults China'The row began on Sunday, when one of the Canadian firm's art directors, Trevor Fleming, posted a picture of the design on Instagram, which is unavailable in China.However, the image, created by a California-based artist, found its wa...
