Adventures in Copyrights: Old Flames Die Ugly

Apr 24, 2008 @ 2:01pm

sarahb.jpgWe remember seeing a knockoff of Christian Louboutin's Sarah B shoe a few seasons ago at Nine West, but we didn't think much of it.


Then we saw another at Forever 21, which struck us as odd. Why are mass retailers knocking off a shoe that's nearly four years old? Maybe the new strategy is to knock off old designs and hope no one will remember far back enough to notice.

The only real difference between the two is the heel - but we imagine 5-inch stilettos wouldn't have gone over well at a $20 price point anyway - and, of course, the Louboutin red soles, which would have actually been kind of funny.

-- JAZZI McGILBERT

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posted by guest

Apr 24, 2008 2:37PM

are you going to buy it Jazzi, my secret guess is that you already have a pair. Long live accessible fashion

posted by Jazzi

Apr 24, 2008 2:43PM

Love accessible fashion, I am an intern... but I have my limits. Forever 21 shoes are the worst.

Jazzi

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posted by guest

Apr 24, 2008 3:14PM

Yawn. Vintage, last year, last season.. who cares.. as long as it fits well and looks good.

posted by sterrious

Apr 24, 2008 6:25PM

those shoes came out at F21 looooong time ago.

F21 based their whole business on copying other designers, it's not a big deal.

Their MJ bag came out late too?

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posted by dumbbrunette5

Apr 25, 2008 2:06AM

recently (early this year) delias came out with a pair that look exactly like the forever 21 copy version. i tried them on and they were very very very uncomfortable, bad quality and on the left shoe the fron section (the first strap over ur toe right before the side slit) was lopsided. ugh. ive actually bought shoes from delias before that were super super comfortable but these were sooooo bad

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