Archive for April, 2008
Can You Really Call This Intellectual Property?
(Separated by a word-Juicy and Victoria Secret)
Juicy Couture is suing Victoria Secret for stealing their idea of writing stupid slogans on the ass of your overpriced velour pants.
Okay that’s not entirely true, but that’s how everyone in the blogosphere is phrasing it as. In reality the lawsuit is based on a similar marketing and packaging campaign. Try to make that interesting! Juicy Couture Inc. and their corporate sugar-mama Liz Claiborne are claiming that they created the “Sweet Shoppe” marketing concept two years before Victoria Secret starting wrapping bras and panties in nearly identical packaging. JC has singled out VS’s Pink Line. What is this Pink Line I speak of? It’s VS’s attempt at clothing. It’s kind of like the Eggo Waffle brand branching out into syrup. Just because it’s kind of similar to what you do-doesn’t mean you should do both!
This infringement extends to their clothing as well, the lawsuit states: “Pink has applied slogans across the seat of pants which famously originated with Juicy Couture and identifies its brand.”
That is all legal jargon to say-’They’re putting stupid slogans on the ass of their pants and everyone knows we created that idiotic idea….and people pay top dollar for that shit. Like totally NO FAIR, NO FAIR, NO FAIR!’
Even though I consider Juicy Couture the dregs of fashion and responsible for debasing the word ‘couture.’ Pam and Gela, the mistresses of Juicy Couture, do deserve credit for making velour a luxury item. As well as making MILF’s and MILF’s-in-training alike forget that this is a fabric favored by those who live in old folks homes. Far be it for Victoria Secret to steal this idea and sell it for less-oh the horror! Juicy Couture is of course seeking money damages and profit from the alleged copying.
Hey Juicy Couture, it could be worse, Forever 21 could be stealing your ideas!
hate-/love+Stuff Fashion People Like #21 Gay Fashion Designers
Marc Jacobs
Thom Browne
Michael Kors
Alber Elbaz
Sir Norman Hartnell
Christian Dior
Rudi Gernreich
Sir Hardy Amies
Yves Saint Laurent
Valentino Garavani
Roy Halston Frowick
Calvin Klein
Gianni Versace
Giorgio Armani
Willi Smith
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Alexandre Herchcovitch
Domenico Dolce
Stefano Gabbana
Tom Ford
Alexander McQueen
Isaac Mizrahi
Cristobal Balenciaga
Leigh Bowery
Ossie Clark
Perry Ellis
Etre (Romain de Tirtoff)
John Galliano
Jean Paul Gaultier
Karl Lagerfeld
William Ivey Long
Hedi Slimane
Alexander Wang
Richie Rich
Travis Rains
All men. All idiots.
I just ate some garlic. You smell that.
Haha, silly woman, you wish I’d kiss you cause I’m so fucking sexy.
Female fashion people love them a gay designer.
Nearly every fashion-line out there has some inspiration or influence by a gay designer. In every major fashion house, there is at least one gay man pulling at the strings and creating works of fashion “art” which are unwearable, unbearably revealing and most of the time only flattering to .02% of the population. Why?
Cause gays are men. And men are idiots.
Not to get all on the side of feminism here, but why is it that so much of what you wear is influenced by a man? Men don’t know jack about woman and gay men are especially tuned out to your needs since nothing about your figure or body satisfies them physically. They’re looking for twigs and berries and all you offer is, well, you know what you have to offer. So who are gay men designing clothing for? If they were designing for women, don’t you think they would start with a sketch that’s more aligned with the way women really look, instead of designing clothes for stick figures? Last time I checked size two is not the normal woman. Gay designers don’t care about your weight issues, your insecurities, and your self destructive desire to fit their mold. Why else would so many gay male designers be opposed to the idea of enlisting a weight requirement on the runway? If they actually cared about women, wouldn’t they be the first to jump at the chance to properly represent them in their work? Why don’t they care?
Cause gays are men. And men are idiots.
Most of the clothing that makes up high-fashion are “outrageously-priced items worn by stick-thin, boobless models with boyish figures who have landed the job because their aesthetics appealed to some gay man somewhere who has no physical use for a woman other than as a walking hanger.” At least that’s the way Tracey Egan, editor of Jezebel.com, feels about the subject as quoted in her recent Vice magazine write up on why she hates fashion. So why do fashion people love gay designers?
Cause gays are men. And men are idiots.
Yeah, hold her down and make her drink pee.
Haha stupid girl, I bet you want me, but you can’t have me.
That’s right, women love gay designers cause they are men. And somewhere deep in the female conscienceness is a little programmed bug that tells us one thing, men rule the world. It’s because of this that more women haven’t stood up and demanded changes in fashion. It’s because of this that we have anorexic models paraded down the runway, emaciated with zero percent body fat, telling women that they are too fat if they are a size 6. And it’s because of this that nearly everything you’ll find in high fashion magazines like Vogue, Elle and Harpers Baazar is designed to make you feel like shit cause you aren’t a thin enough, sexy enough, or man enough to pull it off.
Cause gays think you’re fat. And women are idiots.
hate-/love+Pondering Alber Elbaz for Acne Jeans
Another day, another designer collaboration.
Alber Elbaz from Lanvin for Acne Jeans.
Everyone’s talking about it. Are you?
I’m not cause it’s just not that exciting to me. What can Alber possibly do to jeans that hasn’t already been done by better designers a million times before?
Maybe I’m just not as much as a sucker, but when a big name designer decides to partner with a company for something as specific as jeanswear, it usually means a bunch of overhyped, overpriced unstylish garbage which shouldn’t be worn by anyone with half a stylish braincell cause a) everyone will be able to identify it, which means b) you’re really starved for attention and c) you have too much money to spend on getting noticed.
So ladies, before you drop $500 for a pair of Acne Jeans (just thinking they’ll be in that range cause of Lanvin’s history) realize that no one thinks you’re as special as you believe yourself to be. Seriously, no one.
hate-/love+Lily Allen Likes It Rough
[London, April 30. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
When Lily Allen is looking for a little ska-punk, electro-infused, punk but not vicious, modern instrumentalish inspiration she heads over to London’s Rough Trade. The singer/talk show host/blonde was recently spotted leaving the Trade’s eastern outpost. No idea what she picked up, but the location is known for it’s indielicious bands and for housing some amazing talent under its home label. Originally specializing in US and Jamaican imports, it soon became one of the leading outlets for the burgeoning punk scene, and subsequently a pilgrimage point for anyone buying or selling new DIY new wave music and fanzines.
Definitely a must see spot, but for those who can’t take a hopper across the pond head to their website for a must have list of some of the store employees favorite tracks and artists.
Rough Trade East
‘Dray Walk’
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
Rough Trade West
130 Talbot Road
London
W11 1JA
hate-/love+Holy Shit!!! Fashionista Sends Us Some Love
We are so in love with the Fashionistas right now. They just spotted our “Douche Bag” tote on Cafe Press and decided to show us some real love. I can here the registers at Cafe Press ringing now!!! Send us some money!!!
The full review below…
“It’s been a while since the last time we came across a spoof of the Anya Hindmarch “I’m Not a Plastic Bag” tote, but we think this one really beats them all.
Despite the bag’s popularity, and the good things we know came from it, we couldn’t help but burst out into laughter when we came across Fashion Indie’s “I’m Not a Douche Bag” tote on Cafe Press.
So seventh grade, and yet, so on point - we’d love to swing this around the Whole Foods salad aisle while enunciating our plans to offset the bag’s carbon footprint using only macrobiotic beets.”
hate-/love+Designer Discovery: Jim Rickey
The Market makes another footwear discovery, this time it’s Jim Rickey, a Swedish footwear brand that blends handicraft tradition with sleek design and a streety edge. The brand is owned by two sneaker freaks who started their careers at Onitsuka Tiger. The line is available online at Urbana.se
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