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Adventures in Copyright: Miu Miu vs. Steve Madden
By Steff Yotka
Miu Miu
The items in question are Miu Miu’s wooden platform slingback sandals and Steve Madden’s Melrow platform.
The Miu Miu style came out for SS10 as a relative of its lucrative cat, flower, puppy, and other weird things prints. Made in a light brown suede, the Miu Miu platform slingbacks have two semicircles that meet in the center of the shoe, with a band crossing at the intersection. The Steve Madden slingback platforms have two bands crossing the shoe’s front, with a similar curved design at the top.

Steve Madden
The curvy design is signature Miu Miu, however, produced in their crazy prints for spring, so we’re sure Steve Madden tried to get in on that trend.
Whom do you think is to blame in the Miu Miu vs. Madden debacle?
Tags: Miu Miu, Steve Madden






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copyright of designer vs. designer provides cheaper alternatives sometimes i suppose, though i prefer if there are distinguishable differences. designers should be able to own their designs! but howabout designer vs. themselves? it seems i can't help but pick on monique lhuillier on my blog. her resort 2011 is a bit too deja vu for me. check it!
http://ebayismyboyfriend.blogspot.com/2010/06/l…
guys, ms prada is not that innocente. look where she copied the cat print from: http://i-cant-afford.blogspot.com/2010/05/old-m…. a brazilian designer! who would say that?
Miuccia should be embarrassed to have designed such a tacky platform that is an obvious knockoff of so many terrible mall shoes. In this case, both Miu Miu and SM are guilty. IMO, Miuccia is even more guilty as she should know better than to create such a cheap-looking and unoriginal shoe.
I don't understand how these people can get away with this all !!!
http://thedailytruffle.com/2010/06/fashion-knoc…
Uh, Steve Madden makes everything look so ugly. And I'm pretty sure he steals all of his designs. Or get's “inspired by” as some excuse it. Remember when he copied Balenciagas shoes.
Maybe some role reversal here. The copier is now the copied.
designers–from luxury brands. premium brands, and to the lowest tier in fashion brands–are “insipired” by each other all the time. as a summer intern at an outerwear company, i spend at least one day a week quickly sketching and measuring jackets in the comfort of a dimly lit, cramped fitting room in zara or other stores. last summer i actually bought, chopped, and sewed a $1200 pleated burberry canvas trench in order to learn how burberry mastered their pleats for a runway piece in a spring '10 line. it emotionally hurt to take apart the signature canvas, lining, and trims but apparently this is what hungry designers will do in the industry.