{"id":15789,"date":"2012-06-01T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=15789"},"modified":"2012-06-02T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:58:11","slug":"more-f-ing-fun-with-topshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/more-f-ing-fun-with-topshop\/","title":{"rendered":"More F@#!-ing Fun With Topshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes sterling-silver swear rings, which I started selling <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/christian-francis-roth-comes-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">in 2008<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15790\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Swear-Rings\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15790\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15790\" title=\"Swear_Rings__82214_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Swear_Rings__82214_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Swear_Rings__82214_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Swear_Rings__82214_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Swear_Rings__82214_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Remember how Topshop recently created a &#8220;Punctuation Ring Pack&#8221;?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15791\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/im-smh-at-topshops-version-of-my-swear-rings\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15791\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15791\" title=\"swearringripoff\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swearringripoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swearringripoff.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swearringripoff-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for original post on Topshop&#39;s rings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a whole lot of you took to Twitter to comment on the Topshop&#8217;s design&#8217;s similarity to my rings &#8212; and my PR person placed a call to Topshop &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/update-on-topshops-version-of-my-swear-rings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Topshop apologized and said it would stop selling its rings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/update-on-topshops-version-of-my-swear-rings\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15792\" title=\"topshoptweet\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/topshoptweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/topshoptweet.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/topshoptweet-300x54.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a>The company took the rings off its website not long after the above Tweet. Since then, I&#8217;ve been trying to get a meeting with the accessories folks at Topshop to discuss collaborating. But, like <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/what-wendy-wore-black-halo-five-peat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcel the Shell&#8217;s sister Marissa<\/a>, the key person is traveling.<\/p>\n<p>Then, yesterday, I got an email from gorgeous Moscow-based client Julia. She was the first person to order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Swear-Rings-%252d-Gold-Plated\" target=\"_blank\">a set of gold-plated swear rings<\/a> from me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15793\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sothankfulproject.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15793\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15793\" title=\"Gold_Swear_Rings__26050_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gold_Swear_Rings__26050_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gold_Swear_Rings__26050_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gold_Swear_Rings__26050_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gold_Swear_Rings__26050_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click Julia to read The &quot;Thank You&quot; Project, her blog of gratitude.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Julia&#8217;s lovely colleague &#8212; who has seen Julia&#8217;s WENDYB rings &#8212; was in a local Topshop and was surprised to see the &#8220;punctuation&#8221; rings, clearly NOT removed from sale.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15794\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15794\" class=\" wp-image-15794   \" title=\"TopshopUglyCopycats\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TopshopUglyCopycats-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TopshopUglyCopycats-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TopshopUglyCopycats-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TopshopUglyCopycats.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Nastia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I guess Topshop didn&#8217;t realize that I have an international network of ring spies looking out for me! If you see this design in YOUR local Topshop, please take a picture and send it to me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com so that I can share it with the traveling Topshop executive. Thanks, bitches!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: And here are the rings in Topshop&#8217;s Melbourne, Australia, store yesterday. Thanks for checking, Skylark!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15799\" title=\"topshopaustralia\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/topshopaustralia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/topshopaustralia.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/topshopaustralia-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes sterling-silver swear rings, which I started selling in 2008? Remember how Topshop recently created a &#8220;Punctuation Ring Pack&#8221;? After a whole lot of you took to Twitter to comment on the Topshop&#8217;s design&#8217;s similarity to my rings &#8212; and my PR person placed a call to Topshop &#8212; Topshop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/more-f-ing-fun-with-topshop\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,302,591],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rip-offs","8":"category-swear-rings","9":"category-wendyb-by-wendy-brandes","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15789"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15798,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions\/15798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}