Did Forever 21 seriously just steal this girl’s shirt designed to raise money for Planned Parenthood?

tips

looks  • 

Did Forever 21 seriously just steal this girl’s shirt designed to raise money for Planned Parenthood?

And then make it white?

Nobody is calling Forever 21 a beacon of truth or all things pure. Nobody is even asking for them to try to be. We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here — never pushing for more than up to code.

The majority of people who work there leave in the first few weeks, they outsource clothing from God knows where, their plus size section is about the size of a NYC closet, and they sell shirts with "Pizza Kween" written on them for about $45 a pop.

But this week, they really outdid themselves, when "designers" at Forever 21 decided they liked a shirt created at WORD so much, they copied it, knocked off a few of the languages, changed its name from "The Creator Shirt" to "The Woman Shirt," and then stuck it on a white model instead.

Oh, and the original shirt was also raising money for Planned Parenthood, so we hope nobody needed that.

The Designer, Zoila Darton, took to Facebook to express frustrations, saying if anyone sees the shirt in the window of their store, to please not purchase the "cheap knock off" of an idea she created with her husband over a year ago.

"FUCK YOU FOREVER 21," she wrote, "and the bullshit 'designers' you employ."

Most of us have shopped at Forever 21, heard about scandals, and yet we continue to go back, but this might break the camel's back.

It really has people rethinking the brand's 'morals'

Rightfully so.

Head on over to WORD to shop the real thing. There are plenty of other shit stores selling "don't text me" phone cases, and appropriating people's designs elsewhere.

Let's at least begin by boycotting this one.

@carolinephinney