Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons for H&M Designer Collection
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Yes I was at bloor, but I'd been about 20 people down the line for two hours, and basically everyone was asian, mostly males too.
I managed to get this coat!
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A lot of the plainer looking ladies' tops and shirts were left an hour later...at least in the Bloor Street store in Toronto.
Everything else was gone, though.
^^ I just checked, I haven't seen anything on ebay yet.
BUT WAIT!! Here is my story of INJUSTICE and how H&M REVERSED my fortune!!
So, I decided to head over to the flagship store at midnight just to get THAT dress.
I was thr 5th person to show up. People started to show up around 5AM and everyone was clamoring to see how many dresses were available to snatch.
When the manager came out to tell us that there are only 5 dresses being sold in the EAST COAST ALONE, all of us were excited because we were the first 5. The 4 people before me were there since 10:30 PM!!
While the manger was explaining this to us, a woman who was obviously in REAL CDG was livid. She thought that there were going to be about 230 pieces and she didn't know that there were only 11 is the US ALONE let alone just 5 for the EAST Coast. And she walks onto the line around 7am. So we find out she's friends with the press from CDG and she starts making requests to be snuck in from the side door to get the dress.
The girl who was first got wind of it and she confronted the woman telling her that we waited inline for so long, only we are getting the dress. She just flipped her hair and walked away.
Come opening time, we see her trying to get into the store as press only to be rejected. As the girl starts running to get the dress for all of us, the girl comes in from thew side door and grabs a couple dresses. I was screaming at the top of my lungs about this and I ran after her and I was about to disfigure her face, but security held me back.
The NY Daily News photog was taking pics of me in my rage and I went straight to the top and said, " You better fix this or we're going to have a HUGE PR problem, much bigger than the one you have right now." So I meet with a PR person, who was very lovely and I explained my situation. I was only there to get that dress. ONLY that dress and I was empty handed because of some sleazy as* SH*t that this woman was pulling. So I told her, " I will get the press involved in this and make a big stink about this until you do something for me. Sell me the one on the mannequin, I'm not going home empty handed. This was a huge blunder on your part, and the part of security and a bunch of people are livid because of this". She told me not to worry. She said I can have whatever I want, INCLUDING the dress from the sale for FREE.
I was escorted to there showroom by her lovely collegue and I was shown around the place and I saw the upcoming spring line as well as some pieces that are going to be in stores for the holiday season (including a leather babydoll dress that is TDF). And so he came out with what i asked for, I tried them on and I ended up getting 2 SAMPLES OF THAT DRESS and a wallet, plus discount cards for FREE.
Usually, I don't get worked up over stuff like this, but the way it went down was so infuriating, that I had to make sure I had the last laugh. And I did!
I must say that H&M really took care of me in ways I never expected would happen especially during the mayhem that was going on at the flagship store. They took me aside, calmed me down and offered to make it up to me and it was completely thankful for their generosity and kindness, because they could've easily said, "Oh well, too bad." but they didn't. I will never look at H&M the same ever again.
BUT WAIT!! Here is my story of INJUSTICE and how H&M REVERSED my fortune!!
So, I decided to head over to the flagship store at midnight just to get THAT dress.
I was thr 5th person to show up. People started to show up around 5AM and everyone was clamoring to see how many dresses were available to snatch.
When the manager came out to tell us that there are only 5 dresses being sold in the EAST COAST ALONE, all of us were excited because we were the first 5. The 4 people before me were there since 10:30 PM!!
While the manger was explaining this to us, a woman who was obviously in REAL CDG was livid. She thought that there were going to be about 230 pieces and she didn't know that there were only 11 is the US ALONE let alone just 5 for the EAST Coast. And she walks onto the line around 7am. So we find out she's friends with the press from CDG and she starts making requests to be snuck in from the side door to get the dress.
The girl who was first got wind of it and she confronted the woman telling her that we waited inline for so long, only we are getting the dress. She just flipped her hair and walked away.
Come opening time, we see her trying to get into the store as press only to be rejected. As the girl starts running to get the dress for all of us, the girl comes in from thew side door and grabs a couple dresses. I was screaming at the top of my lungs about this and I ran after her and I was about to disfigure her face, but security held me back.
The NY Daily News photog was taking pics of me in my rage and I went straight to the top and said, " You better fix this or we're going to have a HUGE PR problem, much bigger than the one you have right now." So I meet with a PR person, who was very lovely and I explained my situation. I was only there to get that dress. ONLY that dress and I was empty handed because of some sleazy as* SH*t that this woman was pulling. So I told her, " I will get the press involved in this and make a big stink about this until you do something for me. Sell me the one on the mannequin, I'm not going home empty handed. This was a huge blunder on your part, and the part of security and a bunch of people are livid because of this". She told me not to worry. She said I can have whatever I want, INCLUDING the dress from the sale for FREE.
I was escorted to there showroom by her lovely collegue and I was shown around the place and I saw the upcoming spring line as well as some pieces that are going to be in stores for the holiday season (including a leather babydoll dress that is TDF). And so he came out with what i asked for, I tried them on and I ended up getting 2 SAMPLES OF THAT DRESS and a wallet, plus discount cards for FREE.
Usually, I don't get worked up over stuff like this, but the way it went down was so infuriating, that I had to make sure I had the last laugh. And I did!
I must say that H&M really took care of me in ways I never expected would happen especially during the mayhem that was going on at the flagship store. They took me aside, calmed me down and offered to make it up to me and it was completely thankful for their generosity and kindness, because they could've easily said, "Oh well, too bad." but they didn't. I will never look at H&M the same ever again.
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Oh that's very sweet! good for you and good for them for handling the situation well! You're so lucky!!!
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i just don't get all this ....
i just don't get our society ... and sometimes i wanna become a monk ... seriously ...
why on earth would you buy more than 2 items and then sell on the internet ?! because you wanna earn money ?! then why don't you ... WORK ?
why on earth would you wait in line for a CDG for H&M like poor people wait in live for food or job ?! are you some H&M hungry people ? because i doubt there are that many CDG fans all over the world ... is there any H&M fan groups ? seriously ?! it's like waiting in line for a Björk's concert, non ?
how many people onto tfs take their day off from work ?!
i just don't get our society ... and sometimes i wanna become a monk ... seriously ...
why on earth would you buy more than 2 items and then sell on the internet ?! because you wanna earn money ?! then why don't you ... WORK ?
why on earth would you wait in line for a CDG for H&M like poor people wait in live for food or job ?! are you some H&M hungry people ? because i doubt there are that many CDG fans all over the world ... is there any H&M fan groups ? seriously ?! it's like waiting in line for a Björk's concert, non ?
how many people onto tfs take their day off from work ?!
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I got a free hand warmer and Vogue magazine! I bought the drop crotch shorts + a dark red spotted shirt. Omg i was reading in the paper today someone spent £2200 wtfffff is the point!? A man bought all the coat dresses from the rails and when asked if he was selling them on ebay he said "what do you think?" What a horrible man taking them all and not giving anyone else a chance! What's more he's selling them on ebay for £800 each!
Do you think they'll have any left or is it a lost cause for me to go this late
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^which shows again that being loud and threatening is a good thing 
super duper congrats to that! (and i rarely congratulate
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super duper congrats to that! (and i rarely congratulate
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berlinrocks- I took a little time off school but i was really scared because they were filming and taking pictures and I thought maybe some people from my school would see :|
OHMIGOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't take a day off from work.. I work at night
And I was offered 2 dresses, so I took them. I was surprised at the quality, it was actually decent. I'm not planning to sell them on ebay and I have a job so I don't understand why you assume that if someone buys more than 2 pieces is to sell on ebay. The holidays are coming up and people give them as gifts. I did that with a couple of those silk dresses form the V&R collection.
Plus, you wouldn't believe the amount of editors that were watching the coat dress like hawks..they really wanted it too!
I expected more people at the flagship store, but I was surprised. PLUS there were more MEN than women waiting. This line wasn't nearly as long as the KL or from what I heard the Cavalli collection which puts all these collections to shame the antics that people witnessed that day.
Do you seriously mean that you HAVE to be a CdG fan to want nice clothes??? And what's the point with the Björk concert???
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