Erin Fetherston may sell her stuff at Target, but for yesterday’s fashion show, she chose something different: Shoes by Forever 21. Check out the crushed velvet flats, as spied backstage before yesterday’s big catwalk: Look closely and you can see the “Twenty One” scrawled on the bottom of the sole. As for the show, the [...]
Read more »If you live in New York, you might have already passed the Henri Bendel windows announcing their exclusive relaunch of Members Only. Yes, we really do mean the brand whose swooshy, zippered jackets monopolized outerwear in the 80′s and now reside in fraternity house costume closets. Apparently, they’re making a high fashion comeback, starting at [...]
Read more »Last week, we busted Target for blatantly mimicking one of Diane von Furstenberg’s best known patterns (and on a wrap dress, for shame.) Now, Business Week reports that Diane von Furstenberg herself is suing Target for the copyright infringement, charging that Target’s copies “nearly identically copy the scale, pattern and colorways of DVF’s Spotted Frog [...]
Read more »Since Diane Von Furstenberg spearheaded the war against Forever 21′s compulsive copying, they’ve backed off using her unmistakable prints. So Target’s picked up the tradition and ripped her off instead. They’re clearly not concerned with subtly since they even used the print on a wrap dress, Diane’s classic shape. The beige and navy blue leopard [...]
Read more »And then sometimes, Forever 21 gets it right. Witness their hysterical “Diva,” tee, with a slightly cleaned-up image of Lindsay Lohan buried like a Wonderland tortoise in a hoodie and massive, bloodshot-hiding sunglasses. The shirt just went for sale on their website, and as far as we know, it wasn’t copied from anyone (except, perhaps, [...]
Read more »When we spot a Cartier LOVE bracelet, we usually think of Elizabeth Taylor and the great pile of them she must have accumulated. We’re totally forget that their design was inspired by the chastity belts warriors locked onto their wives in Medieval England. It’s almost unsettling that the bracelet’s design of screws, meant permanently lock [...]
Read more »We felt insanely cool for scoring a Proenza Schouler corset at a thrift shop this summer, but apparently, we weren’t that special: Forever 21 also scored a Proenza Schouler corset, just like the ones Jack and Lazaro made for Target in February. They switched a color from white to black, added a little more room [...]
Read more »We adored Wednesday’s Gossip Girl, especially the part we feared would suck: The flashbacks to Thanksgiving ’06, where Nate was actually fun and cool, Blair was sick but happier, and Serena Van Der Woodsen was a serious problem child. In the course of one episode, we saw her undress in front of her best friend’s [...]
Read more »Perhaps this gets you into our mindset right now: When reader Jessica sent us a tip saying Forever 21 had knocked off a Marc bag, our first thought wasn’t “How dare they steal this man’s designs!” It couldn’t be, because we’re so unshocked at this point that Forever 21 would steal anyone‘s designs. It’s like [...]
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