Lara Bohinc, the Brit-based jewelry designer who’s worked with brands like Lanvin and Gucci, is probably best known for her knot jewelry.
The shiny gold and dull platinum knots come in different shapes and sizes, sometimes plaited, in rings, bracelets and necklaces. You’ve probably seen them accompanying a red carpet dress or two and even though they sell for upwards of $500, they’re unique enough that they used to fly out of the store when I worked in retail.
They sold so well that Urban Outfitters (who’s usually a lot quicker on the uptake) is ripping off Bohinc’s signature designs and warping them into $78 “mixed metal exclusive to Urban Outfitters” versions. In the store, they’re merchandised three at a time, layered over each other, to at least lend an image of richness.
But as you can see in the picture, they don’t even come close.
Tags: Gucci, Lanvin, Lara Bohinc, Urban Outfitters
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i actually like the look of the urban outfitters one better.
i’d have to see/feel them both to say for sure though.
The picture doesn’t really tell me which one is better. But it does tell me it’s a knockoff and that’s not very fair.
The UO design looks much hotter. I want one!
Love the urban outfitters one – thanks for the notification!
from the pictures you posted, the uo one looks nicer.
the urban necklace is adorable and affordable
that’s the beauty of High/Low. Everybody’s happy. That’s what counts at the end of the day. As long as it’s not a complete and total copy, what harm is there. Urban Outfitters has it’s customer as does Lara
Bohinc. May they both prosper!
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I want the UO one!
Why do these posts always make a big deal about how much cheaper the copy is? Isn’t just the fact that its a copy the problem? It seems like the biggest outrage in these adventures in copyright posts is the fact that the knock-off is affordable to the masses. Say a copy cost the same as the original, would there be the same outrage? Or would it be ok because that way the item was still unattainable to the commoners?
That knot I have seen on belts from the 70s and 80s. It is nothing new, nothing brilliant. Therefore who cares. Don’t you people have better things to do, than to search the net for who’s copied who?!
I’m with guest 10, another non-adventure in copyright. You might as well say that Laura Bohinc is copying Cleopatra – the knot is such an overused motif in jewelry design and has been forever.
the UO design is based on what is referred to as a love knot while the Lara Bohinc design isn’t even a knot, it’s two loops linked through a circle. I”m going to have to say i disagree with this being a non-adventure is copyright.
Guests 10 & 11 beat me to it, so I concur – the knot motif is old as the hills. Most of the time (e.g., the Hayden-Harnett sandals recently posted) your copyright segments make sense, but this one is a bit of a stretch.
topshop in ny has a similar knock off too… but I guess that’s expected when every item in the store is a designer knock-off.
hate these posts. Its been going on since the beginning ot time…who caaaares. Micheal Kors rips of Marc Jacobs…