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Candle label resembling KKK hoods doesn't go over too well — Bath & Body Works apologizes

Carla Sinclair
Oct 11, 2024
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Image: Jonathan Weiss / shutterstock.com
Image: Jonathan Weiss / shutterstock.com

How an entire design team for Bath & Body Works missed the obvious resemblance between its "Snowed-In" candle label and a gathering of Ku Klux Klan hoods is baffling, to say the least.

But the company is now apologizing for its "klandle" (as folks on social media have dubbed it) while quickly yanking the candles f…

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