17th Jan 2006
Urban Outfitters Rips Off an Indie Designer
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Johnny Cupcakes makes funky limited-edition tees with cupcake-integrated designs printed on them. They exude a tongue-and-cheek hipster style that gives the wearer a feeling of belonging to an exclusive club, or at least part of an inside joke.
Urban Outfitters, the Gap of urban hipsters, saw these merits in Johnny Cupcake designs. But when they did not reach a deal with Johnny Cupcakes about carrying his t-shirts, they kept the samples and then reproduced something MUCH too similar to one of Johnny’s cupcake designs, trying to pass it off as their own.
So go ahead and support the original Johnny Cupcakes, not the unauthorized reproduction -it’ll be good for the soul.
-Ali
Posted by Ali @ 9:38 pm
May 7th, 2007 at 8:54 am
hahaha, i love it.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I’ve worked for such fashion conglomerates and
they rip off little known designers all the time. They also rip
off extremely well-known designers and “dumb-down” the
tailoring/fabric so it meets their every-penny counts price-points.
These kinds companies hire herds of designers
to scour sites like this and get “inspiration”…(steal?)
I never shop there, but now I REALLY will never
shop there! Yikes.