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Designer Alexander Wang Hit With Another Sexual Misconduct Allegation

Kevin Schattenkirk READ TIME: 2 MIN.

Fashion designer Alexander Wang has been hit with yet another accusation of sexual assault, BBC reports.

Keaton Bullen, a 21-year-old student at New York City's Parsons School of Design – Wang's alma mater – claims he was assaulted by Wang at a club in 2019. Attorney Lisa Bloom is representing eleven men accusing the designer of sexual misconduct. Wang vociferously denies all of the allegations, calling them "grotesquely false."

Bullen said he met Wang on August 24, 2019 at the Fishbowl in New York City, around 11:30pm. He said they initially hit it off over their alma mater, where Bullen is studying interior design. Wang invited Bullen and his friend to his table where he offered vodka by the bottle, and eventually led Bullen to the dance floor. "All of a sudden he unzipped my trousers, put his hands in my pants and started grabbing my penis in front of a bunch of people. I completely froze," Bullen said.

"He then said: 'I want to take you home with me.' I felt weirded out... and removed myself from the situation as fast as possible."

One of Wang's lawyers, Paul Tweed, said he is expecting video footage from the night of the incident that "will totally disprove the allegation."

Though he is not pursuing legal action, Bullen said he felt an obligation to support others who have been called "liars" for making similar allegations against Wang.

Since the accusations surfaced at the end of last year, Wang has been accused by several men. Bullen's account is similar to that of model Owen Mooney, which EDGE reported early last month. In a social media post, Mooney said he met Wang – unnamed in Mooney's first post – at a New York City club in 2017. Wang allegedly began groping Mooney in the middle of a dance floor so crowded he couldn't get away.

Among other similar accusations, Wang also allegedly exposed the genitals of DJ Gia Garrison, a transgender woman, on the dance floor of Slake in Manhattan. "I was dancing near him when he reached out his hand, grabbed my bikini bottoms and dragged it downward in front of everyone," Garrison said.

"As a trans woman with discomfort about certain parts of myself that I've since grown to love, I don't want someone to expose my entire body like that."


by Kevin Schattenkirk

Kevin Schattenkirk is an ethnomusicologist and pop music aficionado.

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