Fashion Designer Accused of Sexual Assault

Keaton Bullen, 21, a student at New York’s Parsons School of Design, has alleged to Newsmen he was assaulted by Mr Wang at a club in the city in 2019.

It comes as the high-profile lawyer Lisa Bloom says she is now representing 11 men with misconduct allegations against Mr Wang.

Mr Alexander Wang robustly denies all the claims made against him.

Mr Bullen, then 20, was with a friend at the Fishbowl club in New York City when he says he encountered Alexander Wang on 24 August 2019 at about 11:30pm.

He told Newsmen they had initially talked about their mutual alma mater, Parsons School of Design in lower Manhattan, where Mr Bullen is currently studying interior design.

Mr Wang then invited the pair to his table and and offered them vodka by the bottle before eventually leading him to the dance floor, Mr Bullen said.

In the early hours of the morning, Mr Bullen alleged, Mr Wang sexually assaulted him.

“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,” he said. “I completely froze.

“He then said: ‘I want to take you home with me,'” Mr Bullen alleged. “I felt weirded out… and removed myself from the situation as fast as possible.”

Paul Tweed, one of Mr Wang’s lawyers, said he was currently awaiting CCTV footage of the club from the night which he said “his client believes will totally disprove this allegation”.

Mr Bullen said he felt a duty to speak out to support others who had come forward with allegations and were being called “liars”.

He is not taking legal action and said he did not want his photo used, out of concern the public would accuse him of seeking attention.

Allegations against Mr Wang previously emerged in December after a British model claimed on TikTok that the designer had groped him during a concert at a New York City nightclub in January 2017.

In the video, which subsequently went viral, Owen Mooney, 26, said: “I was by myself at one point and this guy next to me obviously took advantage of the fact that no one could move.

“And he just started touching me up. Fully up my leg, in my crotch. It made me freeze completely because I was in so much shock.”

Two fashion watchdog Instagram accounts, @DietPrada and @ShitModelManagement, then began sharing several anonymous claims of sexual misconduct against the designer.

Mr Mooney later criticised what he called the “radio silence” from the fashion and film industries in response to the allegations, which affected people who were “male, queer and trans”.

“It seems #MeToo quite possibly could be lacking in inclusivity,” he said on social media.

In a statement at the time, Mr Wang denied the allegations as “baseless and grotesquely false” and said he would “hold accountable” those responsible for spreading them.

Mr Mooney, from Peterborough, is one of 11 people being represented by the victim’s rights lawyer Lisa Bloom, who has led a number of high-profile sexual harassment cases.

She told Newsmen, most of the alleged incidents were linked to LGBT clubs and that no legal action had yet been taken.