One of many largest firms and retailers in America will not be solely promoting a dupe of my patented Pirouette Skort design, however additionally they threatened to SUE ME for talking up about it. Yeah. After I despatched a stop and desist to cease promoting the dupe, that’s the response I acquired from their authorized workforce. On my birthday, btw.
Right here’s the dupe, the “Tutu Skort” by a model known as Gottex.
I imply, they even had ZERO SHAME making the very same colour as my lilac Pirouette that went viral after Taylor Swift wore it. The opposite two colour choices are additionally precise copies of POPFLEX colours. Did they not assume anybody would discover? Or do they only know they’re the large fish and guess on me doing nothing about it? Prob the latter.
Nordstrom is price 4 billion {dollars}. They’ve 54,000 workers and 351 shops within the US. However they selected to infringe on my patent as an alternative of oh…idk… WORK WITH ME?!
Enjoyable truth: I used to be granted the patent for this skort (my very first design patent!) on my birthday final 12 months! The applying course of takes a variety of effort and time, which is one motive why they aren’t all the time an choice for small companies. And as you may see, a patent doesn’t all the time deter a giant company from stealing a design.
Sadly, my story is nothing new. Company America is filled with twisted greed, the place huge firms steal an impartial designer’s creation and become profitable off of the product whereas the unique designer goes unpaid. As an alternative, they pay their attorneys to gaslight and threaten to sue anybody who tries to struggle again.
However nah.
That’s not how I do enterprise.
Nordstrom and Gottex Studio are treating me like an annoying little insect they will squash at any second with their huge bully company {dollars}. Properly guess what? Companies are run on cash from the patron – YOUR HARD EARNED DOLLARS. With out your cash, they don’t have anything. I can’t consider they don’t perceive that??
WELL LET’S MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND.
I want your assist to share this video and EXPOSE Nordstrom and Gottex Studio. It’s time all of us stand as much as the large firms that stroll throughout small companies like mine. That is taking place too typically to individuals who pour their souls into their creations however can not afford the cash, power, and time it takes to struggle again.
I attempted to maintain this elegant and personal however sadly their habits left me with no alternative however to make this a really public matter.
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