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JChambers said:
Can't knock the hustle. Buncha' idiots spending their money on it and dude's getting rich. Wish I woulda' thought of it.
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There isn't even a hustle though. No ones being decieved they just that dumb to not recognize they can literally make what they just paid that much for :lol:
 
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VC's signature line was :nthat: The II's & III's were always my favorite.... I played a lot of ball in the V's & the IV's are still my go to shoe when I leave the house real quick.
 
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JChambers said:
They get props for marketing it right and making it profitable. I could give two sh&^s about someone ripping off Ralph Lauren. He never gave me anything for free. I am not sure that it is illegal though. Supreme just did the same thing with an unauthorized Rolex Submariner.
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Orchard Street did that too... right?

I wasn't upset that they jacked Ralphie, I'm just saying even when Kanye thinks he's winning, Ralphie is winning too.

Me, on the other hand, I've gotten a lot of Ralph Lauren items for free. :tongue:

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what you did there, i see it.
 
I don't get why people are angry at Virgil. If you don't want to buy a shirt then don't buy a shirt. Rugby is now defunct. RL could care less. The Pyrex woven shirts may even be worth more now. 90% of brands don't manufacture their own tees. They buy blanks (Triple A, American Apparel, etc), remove the label, add their own label and graphic, then make their own price.
 
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I don't get why people are angry at Virgil. If you don't want to buy a shirt then don't buy a shirt. Rugby is now defunct. RL could care less. The Pyrex woven shirts may even be worth more now. 90% of brands don't manufacture their own tees. They buy blanks (Triple A, American Apparel, etc), remove the label, add their own label and graphic, then make their own price.
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Its a $30 shirt with $10 screen printing sold for $500...There's no justifying it. Its not even their own cut and sew piece.
 
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I don't get why people are angry at Virgil. If you don't want to buy a shirt then don't buy a shirt. Rugby is now defunct. RL could care less. The Pyrex woven shirts may even be worth more now. 90% of brands don't manufacture their own tees. They buy blanks (Triple A, American Apparel, etc), remove the label, add their own label and graphic, then make their own price.
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donjuan513 said:
The Rugby shirt was a canvas. When you purchase a canvas you can do whatever you want with it. He chose to add a screen and charge $500 for it. You justify it buy not buying it if you don't want it.
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Dude, has your account been hacked?

You are making a false equivalency.

So, it's one thing to buy blank tees and screen print. It's an accepted practice and in that case the blank tee is really nothing more than the canvas - it's not integral in the design - nobody at the company that makes the blank tee is being paid good money to design that tee. And, most importantly, there's no assumption when buying a screen printed tee that the indy company actual designed the physical t-shirt.

With the Pyrex flannel, the shirt was more than a canvas - it was the design of the shirt. Somebody got paid to design a shirt for their employeer/contractor and it was used in a way and by a brand that was outside the contract. And, from a consumer end, the buyer would make a reasonable assumption that Pyrex designed the shirt - but it did not. ...If the buyer thinks the artist designed it - it's not simply a canvas.

Now, if there was some reason to use the RL shirt, other than cutting corners and hubris, then it's still potentially unethical, but at least I understand why somebody did it. ...Like, if a graff artist bought a previous work and then did a piece on top of it and sold it. ...That's the artist making some sort of statement and actually changing the original piece into something else. That's it's own kind of art. Doctor Romanelli is his own kind of artist. But, that's not what happened here.

The proper analogy for what Pyrex did is not an artist and a canvas - what Pyrex did was buy a term paper off the internet, write their name on it (IN HUGE LETTERS), and hand it in.
 
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