The 'Outfit Look-Alikes' Thread

[Squizree]

Yeah they look similar, but you know I'd love to see a list of Alexander Wang's "look-alikes". I think we'd discover that he's much more guilty of it than Chalayan.
I just think it's kinda ironic that Hussein Chalayan, one of the most revolutionary designers of our time, is being measured against....Alexander Wang.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

^ Amen.

 

[pecia]

Valentino Couture Spring 2002 & Zac Posen Resort 2010

style

 

[Miss Galliano]

sorry Chaayan ,i s much better than Wang, mr Chalayan is not a copycat .. good one !
hihihi

 

[Dkammern]

Valentino Couture Spring 2002 & Zac Posen Resort 2010

style

amazing eye!!
i guess this gives us an idea of how these infamous textile trade shows work, no?
who has the power, who gets the exclusive, what happens with the left overs, how long does it take...

 

[Squizree]

omg, the Zac Posen print is identical. This crosses beyond copycat boundary,

 

[ilaughead]

^To be fair, he just used the same fabric, he didn't really copy anything.


As for the Chalayan, it doesn't matter how respected of a designer he is or how unoriginal Wang might be, Chalayan still got "inspiration" from the Wang dress.

 

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Left OdlR
Right Maxmara

OSCAR TO THE MAX: Oscar de la Renta was most sincerely unflattered when a staff member passed by Lord & Taylor recently and saw some spring looks by Max Mara Studio, the Italian brand’s diffusion line, that bore a striking resemblance to de la Renta’s spring 2008 collection. “The prints and these styles are my clothes from two seasons ago,” de la Renta told WWD.

In addition to similarities in cut and silhouette, a pair of prints are very close, especially a tribal pattern. While de la Renta acknowledged it is often standard practice for mills shopping their own designs to offer a designer a one-year exclusive and then put the print back into circulation, that should not have been the case here. “This particular print is not a print that I bought,” he said. “I gave the Italian house the artwork….This is horrible because Max Mara, you know, they should be more responsible.”

When asked for a comment, a Max Mara Fashion Group spokesman said, “The designers of the Max Mara Studio line chose the printed fabrics in total good faith. [In the Max Mara Studio collection] the prints are applied on different materials and fashioned in styles that are very different from the models designed by Oscar de la Renta. We will, however, speak to the mill that supplied the fabric, because we’re very sorry for what happened.” He also added that Max Mara asks its mills for a one-year exclusive on the prints it selects.

Perhaps so, but de la Renta maintained that “their jacket looks just like mine.” While that specific piece was no longer on the floor at Lord & Taylor for WWD’s examination, a fuzzy cell phone photo taken in a fitting room by the designer’s employee indicates he has a point. In addition, a Max Mara Studio skirt seems similarly proportioned, and its asymmetric tribal pattern placed almost identically to the skirt of a de la Renta wrap dress.

As for the mill in question, Como-based Gentili Mosconi, owner and chairman Francesco Gentili maintains de la Renta doesn’t know his own contracts: “We have a commercial agreement with Oscar de la Renta for which he has the worldwide exclusive on our fabrics, whether designed by us or by him, for one year after which the designs are the property of Gentili Mosconi.”

wwd.com

 

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This is not outfit look-alike, more like bag and ad look-alikes

A wise reader e-mailed us this AIC, and we’re shocked to see the similarities between the Miu Miu AW09 handbag ad at left and the ad for a handbag line called La Diva at right.

Not only are the two bags extremely alike, but the ad itself is styled completely after the Miu Miu ad. From the whitewashed, peachy palette, to the model’s indifferent touch of the face.

All we have to say is, seriously?

Copying a Miu Miu ad is pretty obvious, since its branding is always unique. Plus we don’t really get the same, young, fresh, ingenue vibe, which is Miu Miu’s goal, from the image of the model for La Diva, who is styled to look way older and exponentially less fresh.

Plus, we’d expect something a little more flashy from a handbag line called La Diva. If there was ever a time for rhinestones and rainbows, we think a line called La Diva is it.

fashionista

 

[FashionPower]

The Zac Posen one is ridicolous
It's just the same print and the same colour dress

 

[TianSoFine]

Chalayan is always copying, copying, copying. It's disgraceful.

 

[dior_couture1245]

^^You're being facetious, right?

 

[FashionPower]

Giuseppe Zanotti & Versus

colette,giuseppezanotti

 

[Squizree]

Chalayan is always copying, copying, copying. It's disgraceful.

Why do you say that? He's created some of the most groundbreaking pieces of our time, if not all time.
I find him very fresh and original, even if he's not the most overtly complex designer, like say McQueen.

 

[eternitygoddess]

Dior F/W 1991 vs Chanel HC F/W 05

style, getty

 

[Dkammern]

The Zac Posen one is ridicolous
It's just the same print and the same colour dress

then if it's the same print, how is it ridiculous? that's what the look-alike is about
everyone is mocking the resemblance as if anyone could've spotted it just by looking at the ZP dress.
Did any of you seriously remember that very same print had been used almost a decade ago, because it sounds as if everyone was trying to say there's no merit in connecting the dots.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Chalayan's recent collections haven't been incredible like ones in the past (noteably the abysmal winter collection) but he is one of the most important designers of modern fashion and so I'm not going to label him as a copycat any time soon.

 

[FashionPower]

Versace SS10 & Frankie Morello SS10

Donna Karan SS10 & Donna Karan Resort 2011

style

 

[bbofbalenciaga]

Oscar de La Renta resort 2011 and Lanvin ss 2010

Michael Kors resort 2011 and Dries Van Noten fw 2009

style.com

 

[Squizree]

The Lanvin and OdLR: Is you sirius?!