We’ve been pretty into Urban Outfitter’s collaborations.
We welcome Steven Alan in any form and surfed through Spring Fashion Week in a couple of Hawks by Geren Ford tops.
They’re dressy and sexy and less than $100.
They’re also, apparently, the same exact design as Geren Ford’s main line - or at least this one particular Gather Ruffle Neck Top is. The blouse-y top comes in silk on Shopbop for $258 or a rayon/polyester/spandex blend for $88 at Urban Outfitters. (Also, the silk one’s dry clean only which adds about $100 to its lifetime cost.)
There’s also this: the Rivet Back Tank on Shopbop for $220 or the Grommet Back Tank at Urban for $88. Not exactly the same, but close enough. And because it’s all made by the same designer, there’s no copy guilt.
Just in case you were about to spend your hard earned recession-era pennies on Shopbop and you don’t particularly mind fake silk.
posted by guest
Mar 30, 2009 3:05PM
That's not really the right message to send. The point of the more expensive pieces are that they are made in better quality materials and are meant to be chosen carefully as part of a wardrobe. Inexpensive collaborations are meant to bring that designers idea to a place where more frivolous spending can be done.