Mesmerizing, Scary Video From the Alexander Wang Giveaway

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Alexander Wang made a video of the brand's recent surprise giveaway event. And it turns out that once all those people who'd been lining up all day in the hot sun found out they were being treated to a warehouse full of free stuff, they went fucking nuts.

They ran. They fought. They grabbed things from the racks and they grabbed things from each other. They pushed past others and, in one instance, a girl who tripped. It looks kind of like the most intense sample sale you've ever been to — only imagine everyone there was on (particularly rage-inducing) steroids. To watch, it's sort of horrifying and sort of mesmerizing.

— Jenna Sauers

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