Comments on: How Do You Sleep?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:29:01 +0000

Leah, what a strange post to make – did you read the above article at all?
Anyone who buys this duvet cover, knowing that it is a blatant rip-off, is pretty much as bad as the so called designers, in my opinion.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:46:49 +0000

If anyone wants one…i saw these on still on sale yesterday at The Warehouse Lyall Bay. I noticed because i had heard last week via Small Acorns blog about the ripped off design.

By: Stuart Broughton

Stuart Broughton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:41:52 +0000

I’m with Clint on this one, the boot needs putting in. This is more than Reid & Dickie ripping off a duvet design, it’s about them ripping off the designation ‘Designer” Their comments give them up, maybe they’re run of the mill importers of Indonesian junk, two-bit merchants of mediocre tat – possibly, but ‘designers’ they are not.

By: Moata

Moata — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:23:03 +0000

Well, my friend Kebabette was questioning her taste as she thought the duvet set rather fetching, but from the Warehouse?
Imagine her relieve when I informed her that she was feeling lustful over something ripped off from an upmarket European designer.

By: dangermouse

dangermouse — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:13:31 +0000

I doubt anyone who reads this article is going to be driven to buy the knock-off via the Warehouse link Ana supplied. Any blogger worth their salt would supply a source link, and furthermore I think a ‘name and shame’ is actually entirely appropriate in this case.

Chill, ubu, chill.

By: sit ubu sit

sit ubu sit — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:49:11 +0000

Not at all Ana – I commend you for highlighting the potential copyright infringement. I work in an industry that depends on IP rights so fully support you in this issue – it is the fact they appear to have blatantly ripped off the design that gets me. I’m not indignant its the Warehouse, it wouldn’t have mattered which retailer it was, from some backyard weekend market operator right to an international brand. But if I was you I wouldn’t have included the link to the (in this case) knock-off site and possibly not have even named the knock-off retailer, and therefore have driven customers to purchase from them, that’s all. I hope the Warehouse gets everything that’s coming to them. Hopefully you can see we’re on the same page here – I would have done my bit to stick up for the original designer and not done anything to support those who might be infringing their IP.

By: The Dancing Cookie

The Dancing Cookie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:19:05 +0000

Wow – great minds think alike but thinking identically?

By the way Ana, I’m loving that Kiely hold-all in raspberry. Steep price but still…

By: Ana Samways

Ana Samways — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:48:58 +0000

There's still an Orla Kiely "inspired" cushion online!

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:37:34 +0000

Haha, the Warehouse have pulled the page of their website. Looks like someones going to get a grumpy phonecall…

By: Clint Flick

Clint Flick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:08:03 +0000

Good on spareroom to point out this lameness. Even if Republic is a shop load of cheap Indonesian knock-offs for styleless metro goobers, they should be taken to task. There’s a nasty trait in NZ to falsely claim originality and work of others. Katherine Mansfield nicked Chekhov wholesale, even Witi’s been caught out recently. In biz TradeMe was venerated as a kiwi original ignoring Ebay. Take a listen to NZ music, often appallingly derivative, but is applauded and even wins awards. No, better to speak out, it’s about more than uncovering dirty duvet business.

By: Ana Samways

Ana Samways — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:28 +0000

I think that is a really unfair comment Ubu.

If Orla Kiely sues The Warehouse for copyright infringment, any increased public awareness about the duvet generated by this post will hardly be of a positive nature.

It amazes me how a pair of wealthy retailers/designers who have arguably ripped of a major international designer and are making money out of it, is not what gets your back up… what seems to make you indignant is that our site features a Warehouse product.

By: sit ubu sit

sit ubu sit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:53:48 +0000

Are Small Acorns & Orla Kiely going to even more pissed when they see the great job spareroom has done giving the Warehouse knock-off a free plug? Why not title this page “save $86 on your duvet cover”?