Adventures in Copyright
Adventures in Copyright: Jeffrey Campbell’s the New ABS
By Britt Aboutaleb
I was staring at this, trying to come up with something other than, “How to turn a great Alexander Wang bag into a garbage bag with zippers,” when Faran sent me this – the Jeffrey Campbell shoe at left.
Alex sent the shoes – with buckles, in snakeskin, with ruched leather, always platformed – down his AW09 runway. Since then we’ve seen them on Jak & Jil, at every party south of 14th street, on celebrity feet and on the pages of Vogue to Dazed. In short, they were a hit.
So like Marc‘s famous booties and Acne‘s sold-out wedges, Jeffrey Campbell’s made his own. They’re $173, which is probably about $500 less than Wang’s, and made from real leather. However, the leather lacks the sheen of Wang’s, and so do the three bronze buckles.
Though we will say Jeffrey Campbell’s much better at this than Steve Madden.
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Why were you on that Nasty Gal site in the first place?
Both shoes are pretty fucking ugly but if I were to pick, I would go with the Jeffrey Campbells. They do a job good at knocking off everything.
http://karen-wheredidugetthat.blogspot.com/search?q=jeffrey+campbell
Totally agree, the Campbell’s are a really good knock-off. As far as the sheen of the leather/buckles/whatever, the difference is so small that it might be a result of differences in photography. Maybe I’m just not expert enough, but I would never be able to tell.
Oh well, I guess that’s the point of the post though right? Whatever, in this economy, principle’s out the window for $173 for a pair of Alex Wang.
In general and in this case I have no problem with lower cost options for BIG NAME designer brands….but this site typically does. So for you to say “Though we will say Jeffrey Campbell‚Äôs much better at this than Steve Madden.” doesn’t make since at all since you like to rip Steve Madden and Forever 21 a new one whenever you get a chance. A copy is a copy is a copy regardless of if it’s JC, Forever 21, or Steve Madden, it’s only fair to give them the same level of criticism.
#3, when JC knocks off a designer, they do it almost exactly and not try to pretend that it’s their own. When you look at their shoes, you know that yes, that’s the strappy Balenciaga from that season, yes that’s that Acne skater wedge and yes, that’s the Chloe pirate bootie.
As for Steve Madden and Forever 21, they tweak it slightly as if to try to fool you, or the uneducated fashion obsessed person, in believing that it’s their own design/original idea.
I’m a little biased here because I cannot stand Steve Madden, his shoes or his business practices.
really, why were you on that site? just looking at the front page i saw rip offs of wang, louis vuitton, pugh,rodarte for target (though, how groundbreaking is emblazoning anything with a rib cage graphic).. i keep going and, oh, there’s some more acne,some balmain, some ann-sophi back…
i think you, britt, have found your next go-to place for aic posts. their vintage is actually pretty nice, but god is some of their other new product disgusting.
UM Nasty Gal DEFINITELY sells FOREVER 21 pieces at 3x the price. Seriously. I’ve seen it happen twice. I emailed them about it, but needless to say, never got a response.
Ugh Nasty is right.
the vintage on nastygal is awesome
Forever 21 and Steve Madden don’t always “tweek” their designs, they just aren’t made as well as JC. My point was and still is if you are going to throw stones at one and praise the other, that seems a little silly. If you don’t support knockoffs, then you shouldn’t support them in ANY form! That was my point, not that one looks better than the other, that is obvious.