Adventures in Copyrights: I Heart You

May 19, 2008 @ 3:28pm

First, Swarovski steals the Tiffany blue color for their ads.

Now, Montblanc has a new charm bracelet that's super suspicious because it looks like our high school graduation present:

The Tiffany charm with the giant heart on it!

We know Tiffany wasn't the first to put a giant heart on a bracelet, but the iconography is undeniable, and anyway:

The bracelet wasn't that cute in 1999 / 2001 / 2003 / whenever you graduated, and the Montblanc version?

Well, it's even worse, isn't it...

posted by guest

May 19, 2008 5:04PM

the montblanc version looks like a canal street fake. why copy a design every girl in the tri-state area knows by heart?

posted by bastylefilegirl

May 19, 2008 5:31PM

Yeah Tiffany Pretty much has this one down. Shame on Montblanc stick to making great mens colonge, watches and overpriced pens!

posted by xnoelle25

May 19, 2008 7:19PM

definitely got that tiff bracelet for graduation.

posted by guest

May 19, 2008 11:33PM

Woof, Woof-seems like a prissy dog collar. Who would waste the cash no matter who it is by?

posted by Kara

May 20, 2008 12:06AM

my brother gave me this for my sweet 16 in 2001 and a year later I had gotten really skinny and it was too big for my wrists. I was making out with a boyfriend in his car, it slipped off, I didn't notice. Until about a week later when I realized I couldn't find it. But by then we had broken up and he refused to give it back to me. I've been lying to my brother whenever he asks about it since. The guilt overwhelms me.

posted by nicole

May 20, 2008 2:03AM

sweet sixteen present flashback.

posted by guest

May 20, 2008 9:35AM

i hinted at the bf that i want the tiffany bracelet for my sweet 20-something birthday.

i'm re-living my teen years ;o)

it's a rip-off, but it's not fair that tiffany should 'own' the charm bracelet with the heart, as fashionista pointed out.

posted by chicagochelsea

May 20, 2008 12:07PM

haha, I for sure got the Tiffany bracelet for graduation ohhh 2001, that is to funny.
No point in making a knock-off, I agree Tifanny's has it in the bag!

PS
Love the comment from Kara, haha!