Singer Bryan Ferry is out as a model for a menswear line in the wake of his comments praising the Nazis for their visual savvy. The high-end British retailer Marks & Spencer said last week it will not renew the contract of the former Roxy Music front man and style icon.In an interview in a German magazine last month, Ferry praised Nazi architecture and propaganda, and admitted that he called his London studio his “furherbunker.” Ferry later apologized.Marks & Spencer was founded by a Russian Jewish refugee, Michael Marks, in 1894.
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