big corporations

a friend just told me to read this, it's crazily all over myspace and lj, i was told -
http://www.johnnycupcakes.com

and now i feel so ashamed

i've been a big fan of uo since my first year college in chicago, it was just so easy to decorate my own little pad with the colorful cool stuff i could find there, esp when there was a sale...

i've many clothes and accessories from there too... fortunately i got only the other brands that they carry, and not the uo brand.. and alot of my x'mas presents were from there too... courtesy of my pals who were in new york...

and i almost sent in some samples of my stuff mid of last year, backed out in the last minute because i didn't think i could or wanted to meet their quantity requirements and also have heard that they will push your prices to the very bare minimum...

in chinese, we call them "jian" or "cheap"... must big corporations be so "jian" in order to become big or maintain their bigness? or must anyone be "jian" in order to become big? pardon my horrendous english :p

tsk tsk tsk...

as you can see with the jonny cupcakes incident, it is a case of "concept theft", and that is not legally covered as far as i know, because concepts cannot be copyrighted..

i never knew they were fucking so many young and small designers out there, if i had known earlier, i wouldn't have contributed to their profits... i love anthropologie too, which belongs to the same coroporation as uo... heck, their boutique is just right below my apt in chicago... and uo was just a 10 mins walk away... i shouldn't have stayed downtown so near my school huh...

anywayss...

denise! i've replied your email! did you get it? got the package yet?

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i managed to find a new part-time sewer last week, am trying out her skills and workmanship, so will hope for good news when i get to see the "trial" order i've let her work on *keeping fingers, toes, and eyes crossed*