Knockoff News 51
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Wrap sheet: DVF sues eBay seller over allegedly fake dresses
- Dunkxchange trade show for vintage NIKEs sparked by fake sales online
- These questions three: Adidas v. H&M goes to ECJ
- Same old ground: Canal Street's Terranova enjoined against sales of fake LVMH
- Tag team: India, China oppose US effort to standardize enforcement under TRIPS
- Time for a surge? Customs officials losing battle against fakes
- Deja vu all over again: New US-China cycle of threats and reassurances
- NIMBY: Airport sends seized NIKE fakes to Red Cross for distribution overseas
- Pump fake: NBA warns against counterfeit All Star merch
- French online market PriceMinister to provide refund for fakes (HT: pMdM)
- Disclosure defense: Seller pleads not guilty on grounds that she said goods were fake (HT: Brynn Rovito)
- LA gear: Los Angeles announces new anti-piracy task force
- Mirabile dictu: ABC's News finds fake goods online
- Real sex: Don't buy counterfeit porn DVDs, UK consumers warned
- Duplicates do Dallas: Fakes abound in Texas foreign trade zones
- Manhattan South: Undercover operatives seize fakes in SC store
- Down the drain: Flushing NY woman caught with counterfeit goods
- Nominal determinism: Fakes seized in Cheetham Hill
- UK grants new powers, funds for investigation of copyright infringement
- Heartless: Fake handbag joins light-up bra in top ten list of bad Valentine's gifts
And for tomorrow night's Academy Awards, when some will be looking at the dresses, others will be looking to knock off the dresses, and few (if any) will be listening to the speeches:
And during the commercials, check out Bronwyn Cosgrave's history of Oscar's fashion winners and losers.
As the Globe and Mail notes in its review:
Some gowns have caused a knockoff furor. The dress Halle Berry by Lebanese designer Elie Saab screamed in when she won for Monster's Ball launched his career and resulted in thousands of high schoolers strapping on voluminous burgundy skirts with embroidered tops.
Worst was the 1999 Gwyneth Paltrow prissiness by Ralph Lauren. The pink sweetheart gown she sobbed into was a huge hit in Wal-Marts everywhere for grad season.
Wonder what the odds are in Vegas for the celebrity gown most likely to be knocked off this year?
