Why is everyone copying chanel?!

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Yep. I was shocked at the latest Marc Jacobs bags as well as the Kate Spades. The MJ ones are gorgeous but all over $1000. If you're going that threshold, you might as well spring for the Chanel!

I think they kind of knock each other off after a while, but Chanel is so iconic with the quilting and chains that it's just so blatant now it's sad.
 
Yep. I was shocked at the latest Marc Jacobs bags as well as the Kate Spades. The MJ ones are gorgeous but all over $1000. If you're going that threshold, you might as well spring for the Chanel!

I think they kind of knock each other off after a while, but Chanel is so iconic with the quilting and chains that it's just so blatant now it's sad.
exactly..that's why i stopped with Gucci and Fendi even. I'd rather save and get my love!! lol
 
Yes I was at a shoe store that shall not be named, they have bags with similar straps with quilts too and I had my Chanel with me at that time. I was kinda offended because I paid so much for mine. =( Nevertheless, I'm a very proud owner of Chanel =)
 
I was at the mall the other day in downtown Portland and went to Kate Spade - I remarked to hubby about "Wow, Chanel much?" and didn't realize the SA was behind us listening. She said "Yep, we like to think of it as Chanel minus a '0'". LOL (as in costing hundreds and not thousands.) I did admire her frankness at admitting they basically ripped off Chanel, but I doubt that Kate Spade would appreciate it!

Maybe she just was brave enough to say that though because it was raining like crazy and so I was hauling around a canvas LAMB bag, and not a Chanel. LOL!! :roflmfao:
 
From what I see, not many of the designers out there now have particularly unique ideas. They all steal designs from the fashion icons as well as each other....just my observation, mind.
Look at the jeans. What are they called now...skinny jeans? Yeah, ok, I was wearing drainpipes back when I was 12, like 25 years ago. There's no difference, they look exactly the same.
How about the soles on shoes? Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't red soles Christian Laboutins' trademark? Yet I've seen shoes by certain 'singers turned designers' with exactly the same nice, bright red soles!
Sorry about the lame comparisons, I've seen loads, but these are the two that spring to mind right now.
 
Yes I was at a shoe store that shall not be named, they have bags with similar straps with quilts too and I had my Chanel with me at that time. I was kinda offended because I paid so much for mine. =( Nevertheless, I'm a very proud owner of Chanel =)

I know what shoe store you speak of - I bought some purple tweed flats from there and saw the bags. LOL!

And you should BE a proud Chanel owner. There's nothing like the real thing!!
 
I saw them too and the MJ bags did not surprise me much but the Kate Spade looks like a duplicate only better-she corrected that bottom inversion problem by making the bottom solid-ticks me off that they can not give us variety and have to suck from the established creative design of Chanel!