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Is Scarlett Johannson Wearing Phillip Lim in Her Latest Mango Campaign?
By Britt Aboutaleb
Racked wants to know if you think Scarlett Johannson’s new Mango ads are creepy or beautiful.
We want to know if she’s wearing Phillip Lim’s SS10 resort lace dress, or an identical copy Mango‘s reproduced for their fall collection. We’ve been staring at it all day and we can’t tell.
The Lim dress is one of the best white lace dresses we’ve seen for under $1000. Teen Vogue‘s Mary Kate Steinmiller wore it so well during Fashion Week, Lily Aldrige wore it to the Grammys and we’d wear it way too often. It probably sold for around $600.
Mango’s looks like a fantastic rip-off and it’ll probably cost about $200. But we’d bet the other $400 that it won’t look like it does on Scarlett when it hits stores at the end of the summer. Click through for a closer look.
Tags: Mango, Phillip Lim, Racked, Scarlett Johansson, Teen Vogue
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I've obsessed over this dress for a while. It sold for around 750 actually. If it IS a copy, then it sure does look like the original.
That's one hell of a knock off. They took it all…
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Okay. Is it bad if I'm actually excited to see the knock off in person???? And that I might just buy it if it looks good on me???
The lace patterns are different so it's not the same dress, but damn close! I think I actually prefer the pattern on the knockoff…
Thanks Fashionista! Your copyright posts actually always help me (single mother of 2) fine and afford runway looks at a price I can actually afford!! I know Philip Lim may be fuming, but trust me, you can't exactly lose a customer you never had.
I'm very excited to get my hands on this Mango dress.
Again, thank you for continuing to post these comparisons. I know that I'm definitely not the first girl on this site who uses them as a recessionista shopping guide!! <3
Your disdain for the majority of the population who can't afford $750 dress is highly amusing, fashionista.
Sometimes a dress is so deeply unoriginal that I can't even see how Mango has knocked it off. I must have seen 10 white lace mini dresses from the 60's with 3/4 sleeves in Portobello Market!
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That's Mango for you and trust and believe Fashionista you are right it will not look like that when it hits the stores. I worked for them and I've had countless surprises, opening banged up boxes with anticipation on seeing certain dresses from the ads and bam the dress looked like the same person who makes Barbie clothes made it. When it's packaged like garbage it is garbage.
well…a fake is a fake….creepy fake
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holy… mango dresses cost that much in the us!? wow for once i'm glad i mostly shop in europe.
@ layersandswathes, very true! After reading your comment, I had a vague remembrance of my mother wearing a similar dress as a teen growing up in the Caribbean — and lo and behold, I found two pictures of her wearing a short, battenburg lace-type dress: one white with 3/4 sleeves, the other cream with kimono sleeves.
you should scan those in and send them to both Mango and Phillip Lim for copyright infringement! On my blog, my favourite posts show where designers today get their 'originality'. My favourite so far has been comparing Alexander Wang with Helmut Lang – practically carbon copy!.
http://layersandswathes.com/2010/01/14/alexande…
If you don't look closely enough, you would think it's one and the same, but it's not.
I like the exercise though :) It's like those that I do in the puzzle section of a newspaper” Spot the Difference” :))
S.J. is stolen biological material, taken against will and formed to clones line 200 pieces total. DANGEROUS, DANGEROUS, sign of dangerous criminal activity.
my god that dress is beautiful. they look almost identical, but you can tell the slight difference in details.
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Indeed, the lace patterns are close but noticably different.
Perhaps a post about fashionable eyewear is in order.
The dress is in stores for €129 on this side of the pond.
I just want to say how much I appreciate Fashionista's ongoing smack-down on companies producing blatant knock-offs and fakes. I'm not a designer, nor do I work in the clothing industry, but I think knock-offs have gotten so out of hand and those companies are not taken to task for it—except by you guys!
Scarlett I. Johansson is My favorite an American actress and singer also. In this the lace patterns are different so it's not the same dress but still looks very pretty..