Urban Outfitters ripped off Johnny Cupcakes shirt and is now selling it in some of their stores.
Here is the story. Urban Outfitters have just released a shirt with
a jet dropping cupcakes (with a different color scheme) which is the
exact same thing that Johnny Cupcakes released around 2 years prior.
Last year Urban wanted to carry my shirts & they had a few Johnny
Cupcakes shirt samples I had sent them....the Jet dropping cupcakes
being one of them. I never ended up getting my samples back after we
decided not to do business together.
The Original Jet Shirt, photo taken early Summer 2004.
Urban Outfitter's rip off, photo taken Mid January 2006.
THEY NEVER HAD PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS OR ANY OTHER OF MY DESIGNS.
A friend of mine that works in an Urban Outfitters e-mailed me
recently, telling me that she thought they got Johnny Cupcakes shirts
in.... except they had an "Urban Renewal" tag/print on the inside of em
- which is Urban Outfitters' notorious clothing line that rips off
small, independent artists & designers from all around the world. I
know over a dozen people that work at different Urban Outfitters across
the US, and they've told me this happens all the time. Most of them are
ashamed to work there, but it beats McDonald's.
I am currently talking to a few lawyers to see if there's anything I
can do. They may have changed the design around enough so that they
can't get in trouble. Major bummer.
If you google "Urban Outfitters" and "Infringement" - you
will find over five hundred results & cases about Urban Outfitters
infringing upon young/small designers & clothing lines.
I've been getting tons of e-mails from designers that couldn't even
take their cases to court, because they're not a billion dollar
corporation (yet) & don't have a fraction of the money that Urban
brings in.
I am Johnny Cupcakes, this company is my life, and this awful, scummy situation upsets me.
Above you will see the Red Jet t-shirt dropping cupcakes that I
originally sent to them, as a sample, before I decided to keep my
shirts out of Urban Outfitters. They KEPT my sample shirts, copied the
idea of one of them so far, and is now mass producing them with their
'Urban Renewal' company name on the inside .
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
-Re-post this & these photos/this link on websites.
-E-mail this to anyone & everyone you know.
-Support
more independent shops & boutiques, rather than feeding your
dollars to a company that is fine with cheating real companies.
-Please let me know me if you come across any other Johnny Cupcake-ish designs in the Urban Outfitters stores.
-And you can purchase the real deal -- Johnny Cupcakes shirts here .
Thank you so much for your time!
Love,
Johnny Cupcakes | 
