Abercrombie & Fitch accused of 'lookism'

US clothing firm Abercrombie and Fitch are being taken to an employment tribunal after a sales assistant claimed that she was made to work in the stockroom because her prosthetic arm did not fit the shop's image. Riam Dean, a 22-year-old law student is suing for disability discrimination and seeking up to £20,000 in damages for the treatment she received from her employers at the Saville Row store in central London. Dean, who was born with her left forearm missing and wears a prosthetic arm, said she was granted special permission to wear a cardigan to cover the join in her arm. But she told the tribunal she was later removed from the shop floor and made to work in the stockroom because the cardigan did not adhere to the strict dress code.