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Sincerely, Gossip Girl?

jordache-look.jpgWe hear Jordache, maker of vintage jeans and employer of Heidi Klum, is more than a little upset with Gossip Girl.

See, according to a GG insider at the CW upfronts, Jordache claims to have invented the ‘XOXO’ brand and they’re not thrilled everyone’s associating the phrase, (is it even that?), with Kristen Bell’s voice and Blair Waldorf’s sex life.

After all, the denim legend plastered it all over their print ads circa 1979 and the Upper East Siders have only been using it for one season and well, makers of Valentines have been using it since the dawn the of time.

How’s that for an adventure in copyrighting?

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posted by guest

May 16, 2008 4:13PM

that phrase as been around since girls started liking boys.. jordache needs to come down from the planet they're on and realize it has absolutely nothing to do with their jeans

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posted by bastylefilegirl

May 16, 2008 4:58PM

Are they kidding...that means they need to sue half of Fashionista's posters and staff...as well as anybody who has even sent a note/letter and signed it XOXO at the bottom. Hell XOXO predates GG hell it predates Jordache.

By the way Jordache the XOXO brand is cheap and ugly!

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posted by bastylefilegirl

May 16, 2008 4:59PM

Oh yeah and I though "God"/"you mom" invited X= hugs and O = kisses!

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posted by guest

May 16, 2008 5:31PM

hahaha that's like when paris claimed that she coined the term "that's hot". ohhh man that's funny.

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posted by guest

May 16, 2008 6:39PM

I beg of you: STOP with the commas before open parenths! (you didn't need one after the close parenth either, but that is admittedly nitpicking.)

I get it, you're a blogger, not a grammarian. But if your homesite can't/won't employ CEs, please, PLEASE learn the basic rules of grammar/punctuation.

Otherwise, interesting post. As you imply, Jordache is being ridic (and I'm old enough to remember their ancient campaign; XOXO in GG world is a totally different animal).

XOXO

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posted by Miss Elle

May 16, 2008 6:51PM

I suppose I'll be looking forward to a jordache lawsuit any day now, because I've been saying that not just on my blog, but on my... life since I was like 10.

Which was a long time ago.

xo...ah, fuck it.

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posted by xxi

May 16, 2008 9:26PM

They didn't copyright XOXO and that means they don't have a leg to stand on. They can be annoyed all the want to be, but if I were them...I'd capitalize on it instead of moan about it.

Maybe S and B might get a new ad camp out of it?

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posted by Fassion

May 17, 2008 12:40PM

I end all my correspondance with XOXO. Guess I better give my lawyer a jingle if Jordache sees this blog!

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posted by guest

May 17, 2008 1:02PM

jordache can blow this up as much as they'd like but its not going to get them anything, just bad publicity.

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posted by bckhouri

May 17, 2008 6:39PM

not our fault is GG is more remembered than his line

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