Posted on 04/24/2017 12:01:46 PM PDT by drewh
If you go to Stein Mart, a discount retail store with almost 300 locations across the United States looking for Ivanka Trump‘s clothing, you might want to ask where the “Adrienne Vittadini Studio” items are. According to a report from Business of Fashion (BoF), the company that makes her clothing, G-III, has changed the label on some items without the knowledge of the Ivanka Trump Brand.
There are a lot of reasons this may have happened. In a statement to BoF, a spokesperson for G-III referred to it as a mistake, saying, “G-III accepts responsibility for resolving this issue, which occurred without the knowledge or consent of the Ivanka Trump organization… G-III has already begun to take corrective actions, including facilitating the immediate removal of any mistakenly labelled merchandise from its customer. The Ivanka Trump brand continues to grow and remains very strong.”
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The official explanation makes no mention of the backlash from customers to the Ivanka Trump label.
Nordstrom dropped Trump’s brand back in February. The reason was due to declining sales, but lots of people also boycotted the retailer when it refused to stop selling her products. A source at Stein Mart told BoF that they’ve also had some issues, including an incident where a customer spit on a blouse and then stormed out of the store.
Stein Mart chief executive D. Hunt Hawkins had a different story. Hawkins told BoF, “We’ve had both labels for a while. We may see more Adrienne Vittadini in the short term… I’ve had an equal number of [customers] say that they don’t want and do want [the Ivanka Trump merchandise] in the store.”
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You know what this means, ladies.....
Designer label merchandise turning-up at TJ Maxx at 70% off the original price.
Ivanka’s lawyers are warming up in the bullpen again....
Liberals are so tolerant, we may have to shoot them..............
Sounds like this was a mistake by the company that makes both lines. Adrienne Vittadini line is totally different designer and has been around a heckuva lot longer than Ivanka Trump. Sometimes manufacturers anufacture more than one designer line.
The key is whether or not the mistake was accidental. I’d say it probably was since it would involve big money outlaid by the manufacturer. Apologies, item recalls, item re manufacturing, reshipping if even possible or wanted.
[.....including an incident where a customer spit on a blouse and then stormed out of the store.]
A society of free walking psychopaths.
Guess they did that before the numbers showing Ivanka’s sales increasing came out.
Liberals are always ready to jump on the next corporate boycott or trashing.
The party of temper tantrum 2 year olds and juvenile deliquents.
How many liberals bought the clothing and loved it?
Adrienne Vittadini went to art school with friends of mine. She is a very nice lady. The company that bears her name was subjected to a hostile takeover some years ago and she lost control of operations — they are just continuing to use her good name. She is a lovely person whose parents brought her and her brother to the US as children to flee communism in Eastern Europe. Don’t hurt Adrienne Vittadini in this mess; she doesn’t deserve it.
I would bet a few did!
A few days ago, I was in my local Marshall’s store perusing the blouses. As I took one in my hand, a woman came up to me and said loudly, “My, that is beautiful!!!” So I held on to it and said, “Yes, it is! I hope I can find it in my size!” I went to the next rack hoping to find my size in that spot. I didn’t but kept looking.
Suddenly, I heard the same woman, this time louder than she did the first time, “Oh no! It’s Ivanka Trump!” Then she gestured to another lady who was near her, and this time, so loud that people from across the store could hear her, “Well, I thought it was beautiful until I saw that Ivanka Trump designed it!”
By that time I was several rows away from her, but I had prepared myself to tell her that she and I both thought it was beautiful because it really was beautiful! Yes, I found my size and I bought it, and have planned an entire outfit around that blouse, something I never do. Should anyone ask me about it in the future, I plan to tell them this true story.
That’s priceless. Shows how fickle they are.
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