Adventures in Copyrights: In the Ruff

Feb 12, 2008 @ 9:40am

marc ripoffy.jpg While we were recovering from Fashion Week, reader Annie sent us something cool:


A Forever 21 dress that looks exactly like Marc's Flocked Dot Dress.

That dress, as seen on Cintia Dicker, is now on sale at Barneys for $229.

Is that too much money?

Totally - but so is Forever 21's Ruffled Swiss Dot Dress, which sells for $27.80.

We don't shop there anymore, but we did have a rule that nothing over F21 was worth more than $15... even if everyone would think it was from Bleecker Street.

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 10:02AM

oh yeah 27.80 is wayyyyy too pricey. might as well buy the other one. whats a $200 difference anyways.

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 10:43AM

it is pricey for cheap fabric that you can wear maybe 2 or 3 times. I realized when I was checking my amex stats today that in 3-4 months I spent 2500$ for h&m-f21 crap. most of them I wore maybe once or twice. 30% I won't wear again. 30% are great things but I don't know how to match them. the rest are so-so. Maybe 10% I will keep wearing. and those are mostly basics. just felt so horrible about it.

posted by Faran Krentcil

Feb 12, 2008 10:44AM

The $200 difference is the difference between a five year old chained to a loom making your cheap rayon dress, and properly paid adults creating a cotton one that was conceived by an American designer, not ripped off by a bunch of illegal factories in China.

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 11:48AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't a lot of Marc by Marc Jacobs items made in China as well?

posted by Bellagigi

Feb 12, 2008 12:13PM

I've seen that dress a thousand times through the years. If it's copyright infringement I'd say they'd have to go back to the 70's to figure out where the design came from. Maybe even farther.

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 1:38PM

I agree with bellagigi - I had a very similar dress from macy's in 1998. And while concern for child labor is admirable, there are more effective ways to get your point across than spending $200 on a dress.

posted by Kara

Feb 12, 2008 3:12PM

Is it true that F21 donates like 30% of all their sales to pro life groups? It makes me sad because I buy all of my basic black/white/blush tshirt and tanks there for like $4 each but I don't want to support prolife or child labor.
:(

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 10:44PM

fashionista....

check out the paris hilton shoes that TOTALLY rip off te caesan's pretty pumps (i think t.c. called the the diana?) anyway i think paris is selling hers on endless.com and they look super cheap

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 11:17PM

it's probably because it's part of f21's "luxury" line which is infuriating. they're not made any better and they don't differentiate between the two lines at all. they honestly just created it so they could charge nine more dollars per dress.

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posted by guest

Feb 13, 2008 5:00PM

if one is going to shop at main stream retailers in the lower priced market, forever 21 is not the place to do so. all of their product is knocked off, most of which is done so prior to the originals hitting stores. try h&m. at least they staff designers.

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