WTF

[Faust]

Perhaps, but we are talking about different things - one thing is for a designer to take something from culture and another to take something from another designer. By your logic representational painting is also derivative.

[Castor]

It's like porn. You know it when you see it. Influence can be admired. Copying never.

[interest1]

Speaking of porn, er, this thread was much more fun when it was no talk, all pictures.

[schemedream]

I thought this way a magic eye poster. Took me a while but I saw the sailboatm

[Fuuma]

re snafu/squat controversy, which is interesting to me contrary to what interest1 and lowrey suggest (grrr ):

'copying' is too broad an idea, because in the context of fashion or garments making one should not treat as similar the following practices:

***copying a designer's garment from A to Z (the first augusta boots / CCP side zips)
***borrowing an idea that you can find on a designer's garment (CCP applying the object dyeing technique that comes from benetton to leather)
***copying a classic (i.e. non branded) design (margiela sneakers / german army shoes)
***copying a non-fashion object (the teeth or pentograph examples given by snaf)

You forgot to introduce time in the equation, it is impossible to understand legitimacy in fashion without it...

[Verdandi]

A selection of the best shoes of Spring Summer 2014, according to style.

[eat me]

Actually this Dior heel is quite cool, if you look past the obvious SZ-aesthetic clash.

The SL though looks like something from Office.

[SHYE_POSER]

Those Saint Laurent ones look like they are straight out of Primark.

[Verdandi]

Sorry, that's one of the vilest shoes I've seen in years. Flowers and white shoe laces on a stiletto is Versace and Roberto Cavalli levels of terrible.

[interest1]

I completely agree. It's The Housewives of New Jersey wet dream. Like a bridesmaid pump on LSD.

You know they've run out of creative ways to embellish the female shoe when someone says "Let's glue some fake black and green flowers to it, and, and.. oh fuck, it: throw in a white sneaker shoelace to balance out all the estrogen."

nchiu – DO NOT re-post an image on the same page. It's the most basic of forum rules.
And in this case, a fashion crime.

[ibringdoom98]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danikfashion/the-original-jeans-sandal-boots-as-seen-on-nbcs-to?ref=category

[ambrosian]

^ Forget cargobaskets, these are the next big thing. They even have a little coin pocket

[Crowzer]

There really are a kickstarter for this ?

[interest1]

You really can find anything, and I do mean anything, on eBay.

[TarHeart]

435 euros for... a Coca-Cola advertising t-shirt? Who would actually want to buy this? Found it on Colette. It was cool when Rei did the exact same thing a couple of seasons ago with her elongated "basketball" t-shirts. I can't say the same thing about this. Of course Colette is an exceptional source of WTF-material.