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Counterfeit Chic: Way to Go, Mrs. O!
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Culture of the Copy. Laquo; Topshop Give or Take? Runway Ready ». Way to Go, Mrs. O! Move over, Mr. President. The First Lady has a new marketing plan that may eliminate the need for additional taxpayer-funded bailouts and pull America out of the recession: First Family branding. While Michelle Obama initially objected. Michelle Obama: The First Hundred Outfits. Well, they certainly are brats sometimes, she admitted with a big smile. The best part of Michelle's plan is that as long as Barak remains in of...
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Louboutin Blue over Red Sole Decision Favoring YSL - Counterfeit Chic
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Louboutin Blue over Red Sole Decision Favoring YSL. August 10, 2011. Christian Louboutin has just suffered a slip in his previously surefooted journey to protect his trademarked red soles, in this case against the house of Yves Saint Laurent. In an effort to stanch the flow of red dye onto the soles of competing YSL shoes, Louboutin not only filed a lawsuit. Picasso, The Old Guitarist; Monet, Water Lilies. One day no longer be necessary. But in the meantime, Gucci should shelter its trademarked green...
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Comme des Marques: Comme des Garçons' Chanel-esque Curves Create Catwalk Confusion - Counterfeit Chic
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Comme des Marques: Comme des Garçons' Chanel-esque Curves Create Catwalk Confusion. September 28, 2013. Amidst a series of sculptures resembling clothing that Comme des Garçons' designer Rei Kawakubo sent down her Parisian runway today was the look below. Curvy coincidence, or commentary on Chanel? You - and counsel for Chanel - will have to decide, since the avant-garde designer apparently prefers to let her most recent visionary collection speak for itself. Above, available on Style.com. I Am Pretty NYC.
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Occupy Fashion Week: Will Interns Turn Out? - Counterfeit Chic
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Occupy Fashion Week: Will Interns Turn Out? February 2, 2013. New York Fashion Week is all about what's "in" and what's not. And on the eve of the Fall/Winter '13 shows, Occupy Wall Street has announced. Plans to enter the fashion fray and proclaim unpaid internships "out.". Is OWS still around, you ask? And why has the movement turned its attention from Wall Street and finance to 7th Avenue and fashion, or more immediately to the Fashion Week tents at Lincoln Center? Back in 2010, the New York Times.
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Counterfeit Chic: Law and the LBD: YSL in Montreal
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Culture of the Copy. Laquo; T-Shirt Contest. Sex and the City: Sloppy Seconds ». Law and the LBD: YSL in Montreal. If name is fate, then Yves Saint Laurent was destined to be not only a great couturier but a commercially successful one. Just take a look at his initials, which, intertwined as a logo, form yen, dollar, and pound symbols - the most powerful currencies of his era. (What of the euro, you ask? Can you believe the colors on that Ballet Russes ensemble? YSL did not, of course, reserve his creati...
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Studies in cyber shopping: MarkMonitor Shopping Report - Counterfeit Chic
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Studies in cyber shopping: MarkMonitor Shopping Report. November 26, 2012. This year's Cyber Monday may be merely part of a cyber shopping season - for the first time over half. Of American consumers shopped online during the holiday weekend - but one thing hasn't changed: the counterfeiting conundrum. We might call "cyber shrinkage.". According to an eye-opening new report from online brand protection firm MarkMonitor. The silver lining in the MarkMonitor report, prepared in collaboration with Nielsen.
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Jailbait? NY State considers law to protect child models - Counterfeit Chic
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NY State considers law to protect child models. June 9, 2013. UPDATE: October 21 - Signed into law by governor, effective in 30 days. Wow! UPDATE: June 12 - Passed both houses of NY State legislature. Next step: governor's signature. Backstage at New York Fashion Week, it's about to get a little more crowded - and potentially a lot healthier and happier. That would extend current state law protection of performers under the age of 18 to include models. A parallel bill. Until now, child models have been t...
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Happy All Soles Day! - Counterfeit Chic
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Happy All Soles Day! November 2, 2011. Or if not all soles, at least the red ones - courtesy of Christian Louboutin, who celebrated 20 years and the release of his new book. Last night at Barneys New York with a chorus of well-shod sartorial saints. 350 pages and a pop-up, and, thank heaven, the only mention of law is its absence, hearkening back to a lovely moment when Yves Saint Laurent was alive and he and Louboutin briefly shared a label rather than a lawsuit. Catch Us If You Can. Couture in the City.
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Chamber Made: Support for the IDPPPA from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Counterfeit Chic
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Chamber Made: Support for the IDPPPA from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. October 12, 2011. Counterfeit Chic has two reasons to cheer for the U.S.Chamber. This fall: an informative visit. To the Fashion Law Institute from a group of Chinese Supreme People's Court judges and a newly issued letter. In support of the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act ( IDPPPA. Currently H.R. 2511. Catch Us If You Can. Le petit Musée des Marques. Couture in the City. I Am Pretty NYC. Kiss Me, Stace.
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"Fashion Copyright" Bill (IDPA) Headed for Full Senate - Counterfeit Chic
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September 20, 2012. This morning the committee briefly discussed the Innovative Design Protection Act, S. 3523 (IDPA text here. If only all government actions were so quick and efficient! Although one wonders whether Senator Orrin Hatch, also R-Utah and the primary Republican co-sponsor of the bill, may give his junior colleague a dressing down.). Catch Us If You Can. Le petit Musée des Marques. Couture in the City. I Am Pretty NYC. Kiss Me, Stace. Powered by Movable Type Pro.