Salon.com > Anand Jon http://www.salon.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:23:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rape is not a “fashion violation” http://www.salon.com/2012/11/16/rape_is_not_a_fashion_violation/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/16/rape_is_not_a_fashion_violation/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:36:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13100583 Tucked in the left column of Page 238 in the November 2012 issue of W Magazine (Collectors’ Edition) is a picture of fashion designer Anand Jon bookended by models scarcely clad in boas and sequins. The picture accompanies a blurb titled “Fashion Violations,” though the violations to which the blurb refers do not pertain to lipstick-stained teeth or the kind of clashing ensemble Joan Rivers prays for. Rather, it refers to the one count of rape, and 15 counts of sexual assault on girls as young as 14 that landed Jon a 59-year-to-life sentence in jail. And that’s just his punishment thus far. Jon has yet to stand trial in New York and Texas to face similar allegations.

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