About a year ago, we first heard the phrase “Urban Counterfeiters.”
I thought it was sort of funny, but whatever - we’d always be grateful to the store that let us dress like ourselves when, at age fourteen, everyone else wanted to dress like Jennifer Aniston on Friends. Naturally, belly-baring mock turtlenecks didn’t make it past the parental dress code (otherwise known as the “Honey, are you really wearing that to school? Do you want to look in the mirror and think about it?”). Meanwhile, somehow dressing like Janis Joplin and Julie Delpy was encouraged.
Anyway, we’ve always had a soft spot for Urban Outfitters, but sometimes they make it hard for us.
Like today, when Glam Susan emails furiously to say they’ve ripped off an indie designer called Tashkent NYC.
Last year, they released an amazingly cool shoe called the J. Cole, and now it seems, the same boot has landed at Urbans.
But maybe the joke is on the chain store - Urbans prices their boot at almost $200 - not much less than Tashkent’s original boot, which is now on sale at Diani!
posted by Brittany
Nov 01, 2007 11:10AM
Urban does this all the time. There's a whole website about it, I think, especially in regards to t-shirt and furniture designs.
With that said, I think the Urban shoe looks much better than the original. The original doesn't seem complete and I like the wedge heel better. The Urban one also looks more comfortable. I don't think it's that blatant of a rip-off in comparison to other things they've ripped off which are pretty much on par with the original.