Thursday, January 19, 2006

URBAN OUTFITTERS CUTS CROWNFARMER TO PIECES

A couple of years back Crownfarmer sold some controversial t-shirts to Urban Outfitters. Protests outside of UO stores ensued and the t-shirts were pulled off the shelves. A year later Urban made some major modifications to them, re-branding the garments as blazers... without Crownfarmer's knowledge. Would they do this to an Adidas or 55DSL tee that they couldn't sell for one reason or another? We doubt it. There's more info here and here. And here's what Crownfarmer had to say about it.

Here's one of the original Crownfarmer designs:



And Urban's "interpretation" of it: