{"id":21911,"date":"2013-08-13T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=21911"},"modified":"2013-08-22T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T05:27:12","slug":"rihanna-river-island-and-topshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/rihanna-river-island-and-topshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna, River Island and Topshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rihanna announced her second collection for high-street retailer River Island<\/a> yesterday. It features lots of camouflage in both traditional green\/khaki and black\/gray\/white. (I hope Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, sees this. Steele and I were recently talking about the lifespan of the camo-print trend<\/a>.) I’m lusting for the over-the-knee camo boots. I do love a wild and crazy boot.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a3200. Photo courtesy British Vogue. Click for link.<\/p><\/div>\n

I also like the camo leather pencil skirt.<\/p>\n

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\u00a3100. Photo from British Vogue. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

But I was most excited to see the River Island collection because it reminded me that I never told Bad Gal RiRi “CONGRATU-FUCKING-LATIONS” for kicking Topshop’s ass in court<\/a> last month! I wrote about this suit twice in May — here<\/a> and here<\/a> — after I saw that Rihanna was suing Topshop for big money for selling a t-shirt with her picture on it, without having obtained her permission to use the image. I empathized because of my 2012 ordeal with Topshop:<\/a> The fast-fashion chain was selling a copy of my swear rings and it ultimately cost me $3,000 in legal fees<\/a> to get them to quit. I didn’t get any compensation from Topshop in return. I was hoping Rihanna would avenge me.<\/p>\n

In May, I speculated Topshop would be embarrassed by someone of Rihanna’s stature going after them, so they would pull the t-shirts and give the pop star a little money to make her go away But no! Topshop was all cocky<\/a>, like, “See you in court, beyotch!”\u00a0 Bad idea because the judge ruled that a “substantial number’ of buyers were likely to have been deceived into buying the T-shirt because of a ‘false belief’ it had been approved by the singer,” as the BBC reported<\/a>. From what I can find online, the financial damages have yet to be determined<\/a>, though many reports say Rihanna was seeking $5 million. I hope she gets every dollar of that — and sends a few thousand of those Topshop dollars my way by doing some shopping on the Wendy Brandes jewelry website<\/a>. Trickle-down Topshop damages would be just fine with me! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rihanna announced her second collection for high-street retailer River Island yesterday. It features lots of camouflage in both traditional green\/khaki and black\/gray\/white. (I hope Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, sees this. Steele and I were recently talking about the lifespan of the camo-print trend.)…<\/p>\n

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