damn. don't think i want to shop there anymore :\

Oh shit. :S Yeaaaah no good, and a Forever 21 is about to open in my city. ><

oh them ripping off designers is really old news :') they've been notorious for it for...pretty much since they opened

also they've been involved with sweatshops...gonna make a sweeping racist statement here and say: it's a dirt cheap clothing chain owned by

asians SO........

but i was always curious HOW they were still going so strong despite ripping off some pretty big designers

though honestly, there's a good chance that every big chain that sells cheaper-than-luxury clothing has ripped someone else off at some

point. hot topic is a huge example

often they don't do it intentionally, it's the questionable designer agencies they hire, who just steal work from god knows where

and if you try to track down which designer did it...yeah good luck

as an artist it does bother me a bit...but in a weird way, i'm glad that f21 is so eager to settle with all these designers and compensate

them...it just isn't, as the article says, quite as much as if f21 had licensed the work officially

but if they were officially licensing patterns and etc then the clothes would be 5x the price.

F21 is pretty smart. ;(

all things considered, i'll still shop there. i don't have the money to buy the official designer versions anyway lol