• 11 May 2007 at 10:26 AM
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Adventures in Copyrights, Part 17

By Faran Krentcil

tibis.jpgWe had a bit of deja vu with this oddly striped dress, but we couldn’t quite place it.
Then Lauren Chiang emailed us with the same obsession, except she knew its roots:
The dress may have turned up at Forever 21, at Mandee, at Strawberry, and on street corners, but it started last season on the Tibi runway.
Net-A-Porter has it (at left) for $369.
Meanwhile, we spotted it yesterday at a stall on Broadway for $10.99.
That brought out another mystery:
Was this dress really such a hit that it got girls craving knock-offs?
We love Tibi, but we don’t get it!


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  • Anna
    I've got a trapeze top in this fabric (from f21, of course), and it's got a yellow yoke collar. when i bought it i was thinking it was very art inspired, almost in the same vein as warhol's seed package flowers. i happen to like the shapes and colors of the flowers on the knockoff a whole lot better than the original, though.
  • Laura
    Um, I so agree! I've seen different versions of this everywhere (tanks, shirts) and I never think it's that cute. But now I can see that the orig isn't that great either.
  • Lisa, I really wish you'd taken a photo on your camera phone and emailed it!
  • lisa
    as i sat sipping my margarita at blkheads, a grls dress caught me eye. i point. my girls laugh.
    we all think- fashionista..
    no me gusta el vestido
  • Anonymous
    I actually think the pattern is more Fauvist / Poiret than Marimekko.
  • sll
  • damn, actually, never mind. just saw the front of the knockoff. too much.
  • Maddy
    The knockoff looks so much better than the real one! While Tibi created it, the cut is strange on their dress and I think the shoppers at Forever 21 will look a whole lot better in the knockoff
  • hmm. I like the knockoff better. odd that it should be the more tailored of the two.
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