This designer desires an apology from Kylie Jenner for stealing her design concepts — proper now!
Last month, Jessica Johansen-Bell blasted the fact star for copying one in every of her “signature” collections she launched “three or four years ago.” The accusation got here after Kylie posted an image of herself in a skin-tight white gown — a bit from her clothes line Khy. A number of followers agreed it was a stolen design!
And Jessica isn’t the one designer who has accused Kylie of stealing her work! Betsy Johnson (not that one, the one who created the road PRODUCTS) claimed the make-up mogul ripped off her concepts when Khy launched, saying she had emailed Kylie and her staff ideas, language, and line sheets from her clothes line in 2023. Instead of working along with her, although, they allegedly used her concepts with out giving her credit score. These scandals will not be an excellent search for the 26-year-old’s model!
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While Betsy has not pushed the problem since her preliminary callout (so far as we all know), Jessica refuses to again down. In an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday, she slammed Kylie for being “morally corrupt” in stealing from a smaller firm and apparently not feeling regret over it:
“I reached out to the Khy company when I saw this. I was like, ‘Take this down. My customers are just getting confused.’ And it was getting worse by the day. It started to stress me out. It just seems so morally corrupt for such a large-scale company to rip off such a small brand and sell it for such a small amount of money. It devalues the whole brand.”
However, Kylie’s staff was not prepared to budge on the matter. According to Jessica, they refused to take down the seems to be and insisted the seems to be had been authentic designs:
“Her team responded and said: ‘We innovated these designs.’ I told them: ‘You did not. This is crazy.’ And that is when they ghosted me. Completely.’”
Hmm. Despite what the model says, Jessica insists they stole her designs. What makes the entire state of affairs even worse? Kylie collaborated with Jessica previously! The Australian designer reminded the outlet she first despatched clothes to her in 2018, and The Kardashians star posted photos of herself in them to social media. And that wasn’t the top of their working relationship both. For her twenty first birthday, Kylie’s stylist allegedly contacted Jessica to ship some clothes and she or he posed in them for the massive day. Jessica recalled:
“In 2018, we sent a few styles to her house, and she wore my dresses in 50 or so videos… I was fresh in my business. At the time I was not sending that kind of stock overseas because that was huge expense for me. But I saw the opportunity and I just took it on. So we just continued sending her stylists clothes. We sent her a box in 2019 of the whole collection, so it had all the twisted strap styles that you see in her current collection.”
Imagine Jessica’s shock when her social media blew up with a bunch of individuals tagging her and realized Kylie stole her designs years later! She mentioned:
“When she dropped this latest collection I was getting all these DMs. I just thought it was old content because we get tagged in her old stuff all the time. I saw it and I just thought it was one of my dresses. This is when I first realized. I went on her website, and I was just so shocked.”
While Jessica was “flattered” by Kylie sporting her garments previously, her angle towards the star has utterly modified in mild of the scandal:
“At first I was flattered by her wearing my clothing. She was the first celebrity that really wore my stuff like I had other celebrities but she was the first big celebrity. It was big for me. But then when she ripped off my whole collection – I stopped feeling flattered.”
Oof. Does Jessica plan on taking authorized motion towards Kylie now? Not presently. Instead, she’s asking for one thing really easy: an apology. She defined:
“There has been legal communication, but nothing is getting pursed. It’s like it’s such a fine line between what you can trademark. There are consumer laws where I can say that she’s stealing like my customer base, or she is damaging my brand reputation. There are loopholes and there are ways around it, but it’s such a nasty fight and I’m just not in a place where I want to do that.”
Jessica continued:
“I think she should care more. It is just not fair. Instead of going quiet about it, she could have messaged me and said, ‘I am sorry.’ She could have said, ‘Sorry about this I see the similarities.’ An apology goes a long way. I hope that this is a lesson for her. She needs to get put in her place. No one is too big for the power of the people. But she is already onto the next thing anyways.”
Unfortunately, Jessica is likely to be ready for that apology for a looong time! Khy denied her claims as soon as once more when Dailymail.com reached out. Meanwhile, Kylie has not addressed the controversy in any respect. Reactions, Perezcious readers? Sound OFF within the feedback under!
[Image via Kylie Jenner/Jessica Johansen-Bell/Instagram]
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