Fashion is one big adventure
Gucci’s spring/summer 2015 collection was all about the seventies girl, from a glamazon found at Studio54, to hippy chic and working girl. As a result the seventies trend is all over the high street this summer. So while some high street brands take the ideas and incorporate them into a mass-produced fashion trend, others take …
Let’s face it, most of the time when high street brands rip off designer pieces, it’s a brand usually more high profile and at the top end of the price point. We’re talking Chanel, Saint Laurent and Burberry, not the cheaper diffusion line Emporio Armani. That’s what makes this one such an odd case of …
Dear oh dear, oh dear Nasty Gal. You really do love ripping off designer pieces, don’t you? Well at least you can rest a bit easier as it wasn’t just you this time; shoe brand Jeffrey Campbell has gotten in on the act too. Famed a few years ago for their chunky ankle boots that …
For the last few weeks I’ve been covering the high street’s sometimes-imitation-sometimes-rip-off of designer pieces, and most of the time there’s enough of a difference between the two for reasonable doubt to be applied in terms of copyright. Well I can’t really say that about these two bags. They are scarily similar, from the same …
Dear, oh dear, oh dear! Zara, the high street brand known for interpreting designer pieces and selling them on the high street are at it again when it comes to producing knock-off pieces of designer collections. Last week, we looked at their take of Chanel’s iconic Le Boy bag, and this week we’re focusing on …
You know it’s not just the lower end of the high street stores that love ripping off designer pieces. Zara makes most of its money imitating the designer collections with an emphasis on higher quality than you would get in say Forever 21 or the others. Most of the time it’s just imitating what the …
This week’s ‘Designer vs High Street’ post features American brand Nasty Gal and French über-chic luxury brand Céline. Both have a single earring they’re selling in their stores, both look ridiculously similar but only one is a copyright original. Now there’s nothing new about the high street copying designer pieces; it’s how it makes its …
Hello world, Who knew Primark was so fashion forward? Now they’re pretty fashionable, and I quite like a lot of their stuff, but they’ve never really been in the business of being fashion-forward. They cater to the masses and that is their appeal. So when I first spotted these lovely spotted pumps hitting their shops …
Hello world, Did I mention how much I love H&M as a high street shop? Clothes I love to wear for a brilliant price and they also do a ridiculous amount of designer collaborations that put all other collaborations to shame. So you can imagine my joy and glee at the concept that Anna Dello …
Hello world, Fifties style loafer shoes are nothing new in the fashion world, but it has taken the high street quite some time to catch up to the designers. This season alone saw an abundance of loafer heels on the catwalk, from these Miu Miu beauties to the Louis Vuitton square heels and the Balenciaga …