{"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":"

Remember my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes sterling-silver swear rings, which I started selling in 2008<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

Remember how Topshop recently created a “Punctuation Ring Pack”?<\/p>\n

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Click for original post on Topshop's rings.<\/p><\/div>\n

After a whole lot of you took to Twitter to comment on the Topshop’s design’s similarity to my rings — and my PR person placed a call to Topshop — Topshop apologized and said it would stop selling its rings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The company took the rings off its website not long after the above Tweet. Since then, I’ve been trying to get a meeting with the accessories folks at Topshop to discuss collaborating. But, like Marcel the Shell’s sister Marissa<\/a>, the key person is traveling.<\/p>\n

Then, yesterday, I got an email from gorgeous Moscow-based client Julia. She was the first person to order a set of gold-plated swear rings<\/a> from me.<\/p>\n

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Click Julia to read The "Thank You" Project, her blog of gratitude.<\/p><\/div>\n

Julia’s lovely colleague — who has seen Julia’s WENDYB rings — was in a local Topshop and was surprised to see the “punctuation” rings, clearly NOT removed from sale.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Nastia.<\/p><\/div>\n

I guess Topshop didn’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

UPDATED TO ADD: And here are the rings in Topshop’s Melbourne, Australia, store yesterday. Thanks for checking, Skylark!<\/p>\n

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Remember my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes sterling-silver swear rings, which I started selling in 2008? Remember how Topshop recently created a “Punctuation Ring Pack”? After a whole lot of you took to Twitter to comment on the Topshop’s design’s similarity to my rings — and my PR person placed a call to Topshop — Topshop…<\/p>\n

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